01/08/2009
Black holes predate galaxies scientists say, solving age-old riddle (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Black holes found at the center of galaxies around the cosmos seem to have appeared first not the other way around, scientists say, solving an age-old riddle which long has dogged astronomers.
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01/09/2009
Australian scientists on board to crack secrets of the universe (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
Astronomy boffins from two Australian universities are part of a revolutionary global effort to unlock the secrets of gravitational waves, which could provide a glimpse into the origins of the universe.
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01/09/2009
COLUMN: '09 space missions will study universe near and far (The Times-News)
Every January I look at what the year ahead holds for space missions, and 2009 looks to be as exciting as any. The Orbiting Carbon Observer (launching late next month) and Glory (set for an Oct. 1 lift-off) spacecraft are environmental watchdogs.
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01/09/2009
An explosion 11 billion years ago, billion times brighter than sun (New Kerala)
Sydney, Jan 9 : The Zadco telescope has recorded a massive gamma ray burst that happened 11 billion years ago, long before our own planet had even been formed. The burst was a billion times brighter than our sun.
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01/08/2009
Black holes may precede galaxies, astronomers say (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Black holes -- those massive, invisible objects that suck in everything around them -- may have appeared before the galaxies that host them, astronomers said on Wednesday.
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01/09/2009
the Theists strike back (Guardian Unlimited)
The distinguished religious affairs commentator Clifford Longley has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority about the atheist bus, on the grounds that science suggests that there very probably is a God. The text of his complaint follows below: The statement "There's probably no God", as currently seen on the side of London buses, is untrue and dishonest, in so far as the word ...
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01/07/2009
Runaway stars go ballistic (MSNBC)
New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal 14 young, runaway stars plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas, creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing tails of glowing gas.
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01/08/2009
Black Holes Lead Galaxy Growth (WTVY Dothan)
Astronomers may have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg problem -- the question of which formed first in the early Universe -- galaxies or the supermassive black holes seen at their cores.
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01/08/2009
Conference to Learn About Sun's Bubble in Stuff Between the Stars (Newswise)
The first report on data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite, which is measuring the size and shape of the sun's "bubble" in space, is scheduled to be presented this weekend at a conference in Hawai'i.
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01/08/2009
CORRECTED: Black holes may precede galaxies, astronomers say (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)
Corrects location of very Large Array telescope to New Mexico from Chile in 8th paragraph
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