ESO and the European Association for Astronomy Education have just launched the 2008 edition of 'Catch a Star', their international astronomy competition for…
The study, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigated the likelihood of knot formation and the types of…
PITTSBURGH-Color images documenting the past 10 billion years of galactic evolution were distributed online this week as part of the first public release of…
Since then we have launched hundreds of satellites, space probes, telescopes, moon missions, and planetary landers. Now, political scientist Rasmus Karlsson…
The discovery is noteworthy because experimental improvements of this magnitude rarely occur more often than once in a decade.To see the infinitely small bits…
The phenomenon was caused by a coronal mass ejection, a large cloud of magnetized gas cast into space by the sun. The collision resulted in the complete…
“You have all these things that are analogous to Earth. At the same time, it's foreign and unfamiliar,” said Ray Pierrehumbert, the Louis Block Professor in…
Sergei Kopeikin, associate professor of physics and astronomy in the College of Arts and Science, believes that his latest article, “Gravimagnetism, causality,…
We are all familiar with raindrops on our wind screens. The small ones stay in place while the big ones roll down the window. This is because surface tension…
Scientists have discovered a huge belt of warm dust – enough to build a Mars-size planet or larger – swirling around a distant star that is just slightly more…
A paper, published today in the Institute of Physics’ New Journal of Physics, demonstrates how a group of physicists from The University of Texas at Austin,…
The Institute for Gravitational Research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy will use the grant to:• continue its research into the detection of…
Despite being little more than a sphere of metal that let out radio-frequency beeps, Sputnik 1 triggered a thrilling space race that led to astronauts soon…
This latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a young star cluster surrounded by a vast region of dust and gas. Most of the bright stars in…
The Institute of Physics’ (IOP) 2008 awards have been announced today (Wednesday, October 3). This year ten new awards have been introduced to ensure that the…
Ozone loss is derived by measuring the area and the depth of the ozone hole. The area of this year’s ozone hole – where the ozone measures less than 220 Dobson…
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