Posts Tagged ‘Astronomy’

Some 900 million miles from the Sun in the outer regions of our Solar System orbiting the planet Saturnlies a mysterious world. Enceladus is enveloped in ice. Because nearly all of the sunlight that manages to hit its surface is reflected back into space, its one of the brightest objects in the solar system. ... Full story

London, March 28 (ANI): An amateur archaeologist has suggested that a giant boulder on a hill overlooking Loch Ness, a Scottish lake, was used as a guide for crop sowing and harvesting by residents of the Great Glen more than 5000 years ago. According to a report in The Inverness Courier, John Forsyth, the archaeologist in question, is convinced that the five-meter wide rock was intentionally ... Full story

Washington, March 26 (ANI): New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have suggested that a special class of black holes have a mechanism for regulating the rate at which they grow, and can shut off the high-speed jets they produce. Some stellar-mass black holes launch powerful jets of particles and radiation, like seen in quasars, and ... Full story

Bangalore, Mar 17 (ANI): Indian scientists have discovered three new species of bacteria, which are not found on earth and highly resistant to ultra violet radiation. These new micro-organisms were found in the upper stratosphere. The species have been named as Janibacter Hoylei, Bacillus Isronensis and Bacillus Aryabhata respectively. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), ... Full story

Washington, March 5 (ANI): Astronomers from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona, have found what looks like a pair of twin black holes, orbiting each other in the center of one galaxy. It has been postulated that twin black holes might exist, but it took an innovative, systematic search to find such a rare pair. The newly identified black holes appear to be separated ... Full story

Washington, March 5 (ANI): Astronomers have suggested that two newfound black holes on the verge of crashing into each other could be creating "ripples" in the fabric of space-time. According to a report in National Geographic News, the two supermassive black holes orbit each other about once a century, separated by just a third of a light-year, and they seem to be getting closer. Such systems should ... Full story

Washington, March 3 (ANI): In an online vote, the public has voted for a pair of close-knit galaxies that look like they are shaking hands, as the next target for observation by the Hubble Space Telescope. Out of a total of 139,944 votes cast online by the public since the "Hubble, You Decide" contest opened on January 28, nearly 50 percent favored the interacting pair of ... Full story

London, Feb 26 (ANI): A new research by a team led by the University of Nottingham, UK, has identified interstellar space dust from a dead star, which could unlock some of the mysteries of the early universe. Interstellar dust is found throughout the cosmos. It ... Full story

Washington, Feb 17 (ANI): Cosmologists are searching the deep reaches of space for the presence of gravity waves, which would give credence to the big bang theory that lead to the beginning of the Universe. During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in the ... Full story

London, Feb 10 (ANI): A historian has suggested a link between the Stonehenge and an ancient circle of standing stones known as Carahunge in Armenia, which predates the historic site in England. According to a report in the Salisbury Journal, the historian in question is Vardan Levoni Tadevosyan, an Armenian/Spanish historian of the occult who visited Salisbury to raise the profile of Carahunge, dubbed the Armenian ... Full story

London, Feb 5 (ANI): A team of space engineers from India has arrived in England to work with a team from the University of Leicester to start work on Astrosat, which is India's first national Astronomy satellite. The team, from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, will assemble key components of Astrosat, which is due for launch in 2009. The engineers will work on the ... Full story