Archive for May 2009

Galaxies - Introduction

A galaxy is an organized system of hundreds of millions to thousands of billions of stars, sometimes mixed with interstellar gas and dust. ...

Solar Activity Heats Up August 28 saw a major solar flare erupting from a complex sunspot group crossing the Sun's southern hemisphere....

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times s...

A $70 million instrument designed by the University of Colorado at Boulder to probe the evolution of galaxies, stars and intergalactic matte...

For the first time, researchers have observed a singular cosmic act of rebirth: the transformation of an ordinary, slow-rotating pulsar into...

Bubbles of dark matter could be masquerading as supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies. If so, they could explain the puzzling ...

"Hearts of Darkness" Galaxies We live in a spiral galaxy. Our Solar System resides about three quarters of the way out from ...

Star Birth Gone Wild in 'Cosmic Hurricane' A shower of hot gas spewed from a galaxy load...

f you've ever wondered how big the universe is, you're not alone. Astronomers have long pondered this, too, and they've had a ha...

ATLANTA - Three separate teams of researchers have unlocked some longstanding secrets of two stars that have puzzled astronomers for ...

THE WELL-GUARDED SKY In the Qur'an, Allah calls our attention to a very important attribute of the sky: We made the sky a preserved and ...

If there is something that seriously affects everyone is, Water pollution. Over 40% of the rivers and 46% of the lakes in America are too po...

Have you ever heard about global warming? You must have heard about it from the news, your friends, or environmental groups trying to sue ir...

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