Thursday, August 8, 2013

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News


First hundred thousand years of our universe

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 10:45 AM PDT

Researchers have taken the furthest look back through time yet -- 100 years to 300,000 years after the Big Bang -- and found tantalizing new hints of clues as to what might have happened.

The Odd Couple: Two very different gas clouds in the galaxy next door

Posted: 07 Aug 2013 06:43 AM PDT

ESO's Very Large Telescope has captured an intriguing star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud -- one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies. A sharp new image reveals two distinctive glowing clouds of gas: red-hued NGC 2014, and its blue neighbour NGC 2020. While they are very different, they were both sculpted by powerful stellar winds from extremely hot newborn stars that also radiate into the gas, causing it to glow brightly.

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