All news for August 2006

  • Wireless Network Helps Unlock Secrets of the Universe, Space.com (Aug 23, 2006)
    By Ker Than LiveScience Staff Writer In the days of astronomers like Edwin Hubble and Alan Sandage, before computers were widespread, using observatory telescopes to study the cosmos was grueling work. Astronomers had to climb atop platforms on the sides of the giant instruments and constantly monitor the night sky to keep in focus those stars whose...
  • Backward Sunspot, NASA (Aug 15, 2006)
    August 15, 2006: On July 31st, a tiny sunspot was born. It popped up from the sun's interior, floated around a bit, and vanished again in a few hours. On the sun this sort of thing happens all the time and, ordinarily, it wouldn't be worth mentioning. But this sunspot was special: It was backward. "We've been waiting for this," says David Hathaway, a solar...
  • Recycled Universe: Theory Could Solve Cosmic Mystery (Aug 5, 2006)
    By Ker Than Staff Writer One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology could be explained by a controversial theory in which the universe explodes into existence not just once, but repeatedly in endless cycles of death and rebirth. Called the cyclic universe theory, it could potentially explain why a mysterious repulsive form of energy known as the...