Charging this atmosphere was a conception of the universe in which space and time and the properties of particles seemed based on the vagaries of observations.
The hottest virtual market around today seems to be in Entropia Universe, a space bound MMO best known for having an actual working economy based on real money, which results in headlines like this.
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Batting Cleanup: The New York Times, which tossed the story onto its front page (above the fold), shooting the news through the universe like a veritable space shuttle.
Richer said that up to half of the stars in the universe were obscured by space dust and would soon be visible for the first time, thanks to ALMA's ability to pick up sub-millimeter radiation waves that pass through the dust unchecked.
Beyond Higgs the ATLAS experiment will now be looking for evidence of dark matter in the universe and extra dimensions of space.
The CMB is the light that was finally allowed to spread out across space once the Universe had cooled sufficiently to permit the formation of hydrogen atoms - about 380, 000 years into the life of the cosmos.
First introduced by Alan Guth of MIT in 1980 to explain (among other points) why the geometry of the universe appears to be flat and why matter is distributed so evenly throughout space, the theory also offered solid grounds for modeling how galaxies formed as the universe evolved.
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"It's coming to us from near the edge of the visible Universe, " explained the researcher from the US space agency's (Nasa) Goddard Space Flight Center.
Mr. Scharf makes vivid the mind-boggling nature of the universe by noting, for instance, that the space between a star like the sun and its nearest neighbor is 30 million times the diameter of the sun itself and that there are 10 billion stars in the universe for every human being who has ever walked the Earth.
Instead of rereading it, get a copy of Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time.
Many of the technologies that NASA develops to explore the universe and keep astronauts safe in the extreme environment of space have applications right here on Earth.
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Universe 3D Image Creation: This program creates realistic deep-space images that you can use as backgrounds for 3D programs, or simply enjoy for their artistic value.
On Thursday, the telescope's Wide Field Camera was replaced, giving the telescope an even deeper view into space - and thus into the history of the Universe.
In the zero-gravity void of interstellar space, the crafts might survive indefinitely, traveling the universe for all eternity.
It supposes that the universe contains 11 dimensions: the four familiar ones of time and space, plus seven that have shrivelled up and become inaccessible since the Big Bang.
The AMS is a particle detector that will use radiation from space to help ascertain conditions at the beginning of the universe as well as providing more data about its composition.
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The team that has done this for Planck's data says the map is an elegant fit for the standard model of cosmology - the idea that the Universe started in a hot, dense state in an incredibly small space, and then expanded and cooled.
Pick up some milky sweets or eat a nice, hot curry off a banana leaf, and see some stunning examples of Tamil temple architecture at the Sri Mariamman Temple, whose four walls enclose both the holy space of worship and, to the faithful, the universe entire.
Light particles passing through the void would be expected to lose a little more energy than those passing through space cluttered with matter - if dark energy is stretching the Universe apart at a faster and faster rate.
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The first stars in the universe may one day be detectable by the unique way they likely spread across space, researchers say.
"Einstein's theory of general relativity tells us that mass bends space and time, so when light comes toward us through the Universe, if it passes some dark matter, its light gets bent and the image we see gets bent and distorted, " Dr Heymans told the meeting.
Space flight provides us with a sense of where we fit in the universe.
Despite regularly hearing how mobile platforms fare within the smartphone space, we rarely get a sense of their place in the wider cellphone universe.
Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity in 1916, offering a description of gravity, space and time that transformed how scientists understand the physical laws governing the known universe.
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Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope -- designed to reveal the first galaxies ever formed in the universe and to study other planetary systems -- could far surpass Hubble's discoveries.
Further out into space, beyond 10 billion light-years, Subaru will be able to see the universe in its infancy not long after the primordial fireball cooled enough to become transparent.
"We're really expanding the part of the universe which is accessible to human beings, " says Hoffman, who logged 1, 211 hours in space during his five trips on the shuttle.
From the Big Bang to the present and forward into the future, Space gives a vision of the birth, evolution and end of the phenomena that make up the universe as never seen before.
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As you may know, Elite, the great-grandaddy of the genre, introduced the world to 3D space games, as well as the motif of the scrappy independent trader struggling to survive in an indifferent universe.
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