All Articles for Astronomy

New Kind Of Astronomical Object Around Black Hole: Living Fossil Records 'Supermassive' Kick The tight cluster of stars surrounding a supermassive black hole after it has been violently kicked out of a galaxy represents a new kind of astronomical object and a fossil record of the kick.... More Rochester Institute of Technology. 7-10-09 0 Comment
Mars Mission Could Ease Earth’s Energy Supply Crisis Techniques and instrumentation initially developed for ExoMars -- Europe’s next robotic mission to Mars in 2016, but now due to fly on a NASA mission in 2018 -- could also provide the answers to the globally pressing issue of energy supply. ... More Science and Technology Facilities Council. 6-22-09 0 Comment
Ideas for Teaching Space and the Solar System The mere mention of space and the solar system causes some students to overflow with excitement, while others immediately begin fighting back tears of boredom. Oddly enough, the same thing happens to many teachers. The best way to keep everyone enthused and interested in space and solar system lessons is to put some creativity in the classroom.... More Robert McKenzie 6-19-09 0 Comment
Big Bang The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the universe whose primary assertion is that the universe has expanded into its current state from a primordial condition of enormous density and temperature.... More Science Reference 6-17-09 0 Comment
Common misconceptions: Things we know that just aren't so We all live with misconceptions about the world. This is quite normal. No one can be an expert in everything, so we simplify our learning into easy-to-remember snippets, which are often very close to the truth, but never quite there. ... More Philip Yaffe 5-14-09 0 Comment
Galaxy formation and evolution Some ideas, however, are now widely accepted. After the Big Bang, the universe had a period when it was remarkably homogeneous, as can be observed in the Cosmic Microwave Background, the fluctuations of which are less than one part in one hundred thousand.... More Emre-Filiz 11-28-08 0 Comment

New Kind Of Astronomical Object Around Black Hole: Living Fossil Records 'Supermassive' Kick

The tight cluster of stars surrounding a supermassive black hole after it has been violently kicked out of a galaxy represents a new kind of astronomical object and a fossil record of the kick.... More