LIGO Members Testify Before US Congress on Gravitational Wave Discovery
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Category: Astronomy
Gravitational waves directly detected at LIGO
Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the...
Super-massive object found in early Universe tests theories of cosmic evolution
Young black hole had monstrous growth spurt Zhaoyu Li/SHAO A black hole that grew to gargantuan size in the Universe’s first billion years is by far the largest yet spotted from such an early...
Europe’s Rosetta Spacecraft Makes History
Europe’s Rosetta Spacecraft Makes Historic Arrival at Comet After a decade in space and 4 billion miles, Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft has made history: For the first time ever, a robotic probe from Earth is...
Gravity Waves detected?
Big Bang breakthrough announced; gravitational waves detected There’s no way for us to know exactly what happened some 13.8 billion years ago, when our universe burst onto the scene. But scientists announced Monday a...
Huge asteroid flys by Earth (again) on 2/17/13
Huge Asteroid to Fly Safely By Earth Monday: Watch It Live An asteroid the size of three football fields is set to make a close brush of Earth on Monday (Feb. 17), and you...
Close Type 1A Supernova Spotted
Exploding Star: New Supernova Discovery Is Closest in Years Editor’s Update for Jan. 23: Skywatchers around the world are taking a look at the new supernova in galaxy M83. To see their new photos...
Rare Solar Eclipse
Rare Solar Eclipse Wows Skywatchers Across Atlantic, Africa (Photos) A rare solar eclipse that began as a “ring of fire” and transformed into a spectacular total eclipse of the sun amazed skywatchers from North...
Neutrinos from another galaxy?
Antarctic Experiment Possibly Detects Particles from Another Galaxy I don’t get to write hyperbolic science fiction titles very often, but I couldn’t resist this one. Even if it’s not entirely accurate; in reality the...
Why is the Sun so perfectly round?
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2012/08/the-suns-almost-perfectly-round-shape-baffles-scientists