Wednesday, January 8, 2014

ScienceDaily: Dark Matter News

ScienceDaily: Dark Matter News


Giant sunspot, larger than Earth's diameter, appears on sun

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 06:55 PM PST

An enormous sunspot, labeled AR1944, slipped into view over the sun's left horizon late on Jan. 1, 2014. The sunspot steadily moved toward the right, along with the rotation of the sun, and now sits almost dead center, as seen in the image above from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Thousands of unseen, faraway galaxies discovered

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 01:37 PM PST

The first of a set of unprecedented, super-deep views of the universe contain images of some of the intrinsically faintest and youngest galaxies ever detected. This is just the first of several primary target fields in The Frontier Fields program. The immense gravity in this foreground galaxy cluster, Abell 2744, warps space to brighten and magnify images of far-more-distant background galaxies as they looked over 12 billion years ago, not long after the big bang.

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