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Ouya brings free-to-play games to TVs
While gamers wait for the next Sony and Microsoft consoles, Ouya preps a $100 machine that will feature only free-to-play games. The new contender runs Android.
By Curt Hopkins / July 10, 2012
Ouya plans to challenge traditional video-game companies with a $100 console for free-to-play games.
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EnlargeMost free video games are found under the ?casual gaming? category ? word puzzles and simple online games. Ouya hopes to change that with the creation of a $100 gaming console that will bring the appeal of mobile and Facebook games to televisions.
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The Ouya console runs off the Android operating system, so, as company founder Julie Uhrman says in Ouya's Kickstarter profile, smart-phone ?developers already know how it works.?
Designed by Yves Behar?of Jambox and One Laptop Per Child fame, the console is sleek and attractive, evoking bridge design in a big-budget sci-fi movie ? or video game.
?It has everything you've learned to love,? says Uhrman on the Kickstarter page, ?fast buttons, triggers, laser-precise analog sticks, a D-Pad ? and we've added a touchpad for any games making the trek from mobile or tablet to the TV.?
To make the system's promise a reality, the company is raising money ? a rather hefty $950,000 ? through the Kickstarter crowd-funding site. Gaming has had good luck on the site, with three of the top five fundraisers?being games, and each raising more than $1.5 million.
All games designed for Ouya will have a free-to-play element.
?We're handing the reins over to the developer with only one condition: at least some gameplay has to be free... Developers can offer a free demo with a full-game upgrade, in-game items or powers, or ask you to subscribe.?
The games will be available via an ?app store? style library.
The tech specs include a Tegra3 quad-core processors, 1 gigabyte of RAM and 8 gigs of internal flash storage, an HDMI TV connection with support for up to 1080p HD video, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a USB 2.0 ? all running on Android 4.0.
With an Android operating system, developers will also be able to bring their phone apps to the new TV system.
In order to make Ouya more than just a good idea, it will need to convert the prototype to production, secure regulatory approval, deliver developer kits for initial programmers, and fund some initial games. The project already has more than $400,000 worth of donations on its $950,000 goal in under a day. Given the way Kickstarter functions, the company must receive its entire goal by August 9, or they get none of it. Reaching that amount seems likely, given the initial interest.
?Pundits predict the death of the console, but I think instead it's exactly this kind of evolution that we'll be seeing instead,? says Karen Clark, product manager of social platform?for iWin, Inc, a casual-game maker in San Francisco.??Consoles (as with most hardware) are expensive and require years of brisk sales for their makers to break even. Given that model, it's understandable that companies who make them place safe bets on partnerships with large [top-tier] game studios to make big, expensive 'blockbuster' games.?With a cheap, indie console, I foresee a lot of experimentation by developers. That will be great for gamers who are looking for unique experiences."?
Clark adds that she agrees??with Uhrman's comment that this will allow indie developers to target consoles again, since many have turned to mobile, given a dearth of money making opportunities?on the Big Three consoles (Microsoft Xbox360, Sony PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii).?
Casual games have become a $6 billion industry, according to the Casual Games?Association. But since that figure?accounts?for only a small slice of the overall $25 billion video-game industry,?Ouya has every financial reason to challenge industry-leaders Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft.
Not to mention the gameplay involved in a little guy bracing a trio of 900-pound gorillas.
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The one word that's ruining political reporting
Whatever your feelings about who the Republicans chose as their nominee, the primary campaign scored two clear achievements for the cause of rational politics. First, it demonstrated once and for all that the Iowa caucus process is a farce.
Second, the battle buried one of the more noxious clich?s in political journalism: ?momentum.? Used most often in TV stand-ups in place of a more ungraceful uttering such as ?uhh...,? ?you know, like...? or ?isn?t my time up yet?? its invocation this past season was a guarantee that shortly after it left the speaker?s mouth, egg would appear all over said speaker?s face. Rick Santorum?s Iowa surge led him to a devastating New Hampshire showing where Mitt Romney won in a landslide. That, in turn, begot him a double-digit defeat in South Carolina at the hands of Newt Gingrich. To further complicate the momentum game, Gingrich?s Palmetto State triumph was followed by a landslide loss in Florida, where victor Romney was battered a week later....OK, enough.
With ?momentum? now consigned to the ash heap of blather, we are now free to confront the reigning candidate for rhetorical oblivion: ?carefully.?
The word has become the all-but-inevitable adverb for analyzing (I use the term loosely) any political speech, ad, appearance, policy position or interview. You will be hard-pressed to find any such event that is not described as ?carefully staged,? ?carefully orchestrated? or?and this is an all-time favorite??carefully choreographed.? (Read enough of this stuff and you can be forgiven for thinking you?re flipping through a review of a Bob Fosse retrospective.)
Just last Sunday, The New York Times offered readers a careful ?two-fer.? A front page story on President Barack Obama?s campaign swing through Ohio recounted an appearance at a ?carefully scouted location, the Kozy Corner Diner in Oak Harbor? where Obama could be seen mingling with working-class folk. Another front-page story, this one about tax-exempt groups shielding political donors, reported how Karl Rove?s Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies ?began a $25 million ad campaign, carefully shaped with focus groups of undecided voters.?
[Related: Ads already having an impact in swing states]
Actually, the Times? insight into the Obama strategy had been ?scooped? days earlier by CBS News, which, covering that Obama swing through Ohio, noted that ?it was all part of a carefully choreographed bus tour, with Mr. Obama stopping at a local diner, even picking up some local produce, and ordering two beers in a local bar.?
To be fair to the Times, it noted back in May how Romney?s occasional ad-libbed remarks ?have clashed with the imperatives of the carefully choreographed, modern political campaign.? And in April, it was CNN?s turn to observe that a Romney event ?was carefully staged to underscore his message. Rows of mostly women were seated behind him, filling television screens.?
Now, at first glance, this adverb seems to belong in the ?dog bites man? category (or as the younger folks might put it, ?duh...?) Should a presidential campaign carelessly scout a location? (?Hey, Fred, this toxic waste dump seems perfect!?) Should we expect Karl Rove, or any political operative with an IQ larger than his hat size, to remark: ?Hell, it?s only $25 million?don?t bother with research, just say whatever the hell you want??
But of course, this misreads the purpose of that ?careful? categorization. It is, in fact, a signal to us readers, listeners and viewers. It?s supposed to let us know that our intrepid reporter has seen through the artifices of these clever campaign apparatchiks. There is a reason why the president is appearing at a bustling factory: to try to convince us that, despite those numbers you have and will be seeing, the economy is on the way back. There is a reason why Romney is standing in front of all those women (or Hispanics or African-Americans): to try to convince us that this rich white guy cares about all of us.
Fear not, American voters, the ?careful? signal blinks. I have read ?The Selling of the President.? There will be no wool pulled over these eyes!?
There is no doubt that campaign staffs have a clear sense of what they want seen?and not seen?when their candidate goes out in public. But (if it is permitted to have a grain of sympathy for the devil), consider how the press responds when a campaign event is not ?carefully staged,? or crafted or orchestrated. Think: water, blood in, sharks.
[Related: Dead heat in voter preferences presages epic battle ahead]
When Mitt Romney?s team moved an event inside Ford Field in February to accommodate a larger than expected crowd, the press fixated on the tens of thousands of empty seats that the campaign never intended to fill. At an Obama speech in May at Ohio State, the empty seats were taken to symbolize the decline in enthusiasm from four years ago.
But the current crop of journos has a steep hill to climb to match the ultimate hammer-drop on a less-than-carefully choreographed campaign event. That honor belongs to ABC?s Sam Donaldson, who, aided by a microphone glitch at a 1988 rally in Philadelphia, ?called into question the competence of the Dukakis campaign.? (Of course, given the Dukakis campaign, Sam may simply have been prescient.)
There is good reason why such steely eyed scrutiny of campaign logistics is so tempting: It?s easy. No dreary research into whether the assumptions behind Romney?s economic policies add up; no need to chronicle the conflict between where Obama said the economy would be now and where it actually is. Take it from someone who?s spent more than half of his life in this arena: It?s a lot more fun to say, ?Look! A bale of hay at an Iowa rally! It?s been carefully placed there to appeal to the farm vote!?
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Asian stocks drop after China trade growth slows
SINGAPORE (AP) ? Asian stocks dropped Tuesday after China reported growth in its trade slowed last month amid weakening global demand.
Stock markets in Asia were higher in early trading but lost momentum after China said the growth rate for its imports fell in June by half from the previous month's level to 6.3 percent while exports grew 11.3 percent, down from May's 15.3 percent.
China's slowing demand for oil, iron ore and other foreign goods is bad news for other economies that had been looking to relatively strong Chinese growth to help drive demand for their exports.
China cut lending rates last week for the second time in a month in a bid to boost waning economic growth, but some analysts say policymakers have been too slow to react to signs of a sharp slowdown.
"Expectations have been high for a quick turnaround in economic growth but the reality has been a deliberate, ponderous easing that has failed to pre-empt the weaker economic data," said Sean Darby, chief global equity strategist for Jefferies. "Although valuations are appealing, a modest bearish position seems warranted until interest rates move to their cycle lows."
Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.4 percent to 8,863.93 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng was off 0.2 percent at 19,395.05.
South Korea's Kospi slipped 0.5 percent to 1,827.02. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 dropped 0.5 percent to 4,096.10 and China's Shanghai Composite shed 0.3 percent to 2,163.79.
Other analysts argue that investors may be too pessimistic. The U.S. and Europe will likely implement strong monetary stimulus measures if growth slows much further, and many stocks are cheap when valued against their likely earnings, said Garry Evans, global head of equity strategy for HSBC in Hong Kong.
"It's wrong to be too bearish," Evans said. "Central banks offer likely support for equity markets. With valuations this low, indexes can rise in line with earnings growth."
Evans said he expects global stocks to rise 9 percent over the rest of this year.
On Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average closed down 0.3 percent at 12,736.29. The Standard & Poor's 500 fell 0.2 percent to 1,352.46. The Nasdaq composite was down 0.2 at 2,931.77.
Benchmark oil for August delivery was down $1.02 at $84.97 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude rose $1.54 to settle at $85.99 on Monday in New York.
In currencies, the euro fell slightly to $1.2289 from $1.2309 late Monday in New York. The dollar dropped to 79.50 yen from 79.58 yen.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
'Cake Boss' star Buddy reveals his mom has ALS
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"Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro and mom Mary.
By Anna Chan
Instead of an amazing and tasty creation, "Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro shared some unfortunate news Tuesday. The star of TLC's program about Carlo's Bake Shop in New Jersey revealed that his 64-year-old mother, Mary, has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease.
"I can confirm that my mother Mary ? the heartbeat of the Valastro family and Mama to all of Carlo's Bakery ? has been diagnosed with ALS," Valastro said in a statement first shared with People magazine. "She is tackling it with the strength and determination she always shows, and the entire family is in this together, fighting for her. We'd like to thank all of our fans for the love and prayers ? it means a great deal to all of us."
TLC told TODAY.com that the network "shares its support with the family."
Mama Valastro kept the family bakery running after her husband died in 1994, and retired in 2010. She was a regular on "Cake Boss" up until her retirement, which was featured on the season three premiere. Though she's no longer featured regularly, Mary still makes appearances on the program.
TLC told us that the show's summer finale, airing July 23, will focus on Mary's illness and her family's reaction to it. The network has not yet decided whether she'll be featured more or less than in the past few seasons of the show.
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6 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 9:12 AM EDT, Mon July 9, 2012
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: A U.S. official says 6 troops killed in eastern Afghan blast are all American
- 2 other ISAF members were also killed in southern Afghanistan this weekend
- Officials earlier reported roadside bombings killed at least 26 civilians on Sunday
(CNN) -- Six U.S. troops were killed by an improvised explosive device Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. official said.
The official asked to remain nameless because he was not authorized to speak about the incident publicly. Earlier in the day, the International Security Assistance Force issued a press release announcing the deaths without offering more details, including the nationalities of the slain troops.
A total of eight international troops were killed over the weekend, according to ISAF, which was first established by the U.N. Security Council in 2001 to secure Kabul and taken over by NATO two years later.
In separate news releases about incidents in southern Afghanistan, the coalition reported one of its servicemembers died Saturday after "an improvised explosive attack" and another was killed Sunday in "an insurgent attack."
The latest attacks came the same day diplomats from around the world convened in Tokyo to discuss Afghanistan's future, including what kind of international assistance the war-torn nation will receive going forward.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said donors at the conference pledged about $16 billion for Afghanistan over four years, a figure that doesn't include money from the United States since any foreign aid must be approved by Congress.
UN chief warns against holding Afghan aid hostage with reform demands
Elsewhere in Afghanistan on Sunday, officials reported at least 26 people killed around the country in roadside bombings.
At least 14 people -- including women and children -- died when bombs detonated around the tractor and truck that they were riding on in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, Kandahar Police Chief Gen. Abdul Raziq said. Three others were wounded in that blast.
"This is the act of the enemy of our people who are restlessly trying to kill our innocent people," Raziq said.
Women and children were among 12 people killed in a separate incident near the border crossing with Pakistan used by NATO supply convoys, said Bashir Bangulzai, deputy commissioner of Pakistan's Killa Abdullah district.
And seven people were injured when a bus hit a landmine near Chaman, also in Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, said Bangulzai.
Those eastern Afghanistan explosions, as well as bombing that killed the six NATO troops, follow a deadly week in the region.
Home and Away: Share your tributes to fallen soldiers of Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts
Prior to the latest attack, the International Security Assistance Force reported six "innocent civilians" were killed and 28 injured in eastern Afghanistan at the hands of insurgents between June 30 and July 7.
"Despite the efforts of the enemies of government of (the) Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, ISAF forces in eastern Afghanistan remain committed to partnering with their Afghan National Security Forces counterparts to secure a stable and prosperous future for the Afghan people," ISAF said Sunday in a press release detailing the casualties.
Video: Taliban publicly execute woman; men cheer
Allegations: American generals delayed Kabul hospital abuse probe
CNN's Barbara Starr and journalists Ruhullah Khapalwak and Ayza Omar contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/08/world/asia/afghanistan-troops-killed/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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Hubble unmasks ghost galaxies
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Astronomers have puzzled over why some extremely faint dwarf galaxies spotted in our Milky Way galaxy's backyard contain so few stars. The galaxies are thought to be some of the tiniest, oldest, and most pristine galaxies in the Universe. They have been discovered over the past decade by astronomers using automated computer techniques to search through the images of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. But an international team of astronomers needed the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to help solve the mystery of why these galaxies are starved of stars, and why so few of them have been found.
Hubble views of three of these small galaxies, the Hercules, Leo IV and Ursa Major dwarf galaxies, reveal that they all started forming stars more than 13 billion years ago -- and then abruptly stopped -- all in the first billion years after the Universe was born in the Big Bang. In fact, the extreme age of their stars is similar to Messier 92, the oldest known globular cluster [1] in the Milky Way.
"These galaxies are all ancient and they're all the same age, so you know something came down like a guillotine and turned off the star formation at the same time in these galaxies," said Tom Brown of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, USA, the study's leader. "The most likely explanation is a process called reionisation."
The relic galaxies are evidence for a transitional phase in the early Universe that shut down star-making factories in tiny galaxies. This phase seems to coincide with the time when the first stars burned off a fog of cold hydrogen, a process called reionisation. In this period, which began in the first billion years after the Big Bang, radiation from the first stars knocked electrons off primeval hydrogen atoms, ionising the Universe's cool hydrogen gas. [2]
The same radiation that sparked universal reionisation also appears to have squelched star-making activities in dwarf galaxies, such as those in Brown's study. The small irregular galaxies were born about 100 million years before reionisation began and had just started to churn out stars at that time. Roughly 2000 light-years wide, these galaxies are the lightweight cousins of the more luminous and higher-mass star-making dwarf galaxies near our Milky Way. Unlike their higher-mass relatives, the puny galaxies were not massive enough to shield themselves from the harsh ultraviolet light. What little gas they had was stripped away as the flood of ultraviolet light rushed through them. Their gas supply depleted, the galaxies could not make new stars.
The discovery could help explain the so-called "missing satellite problem," where only a few dozen dwarf galaxies have been observed around the Milky Way while the computer simulations predict that thousands should exist. One possible explanation for the low number discovered to date is that there has been very little, or even no star formation in the smallest of these dwarf galaxies, leaving them virtually invisible.
The Sloan survey recently uncovered more than a dozen of these galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood. These have very few stars -- only a few hundred or thousand -- but a great deal of dark matter, the underlying scaffolding upon which galaxies are built. Normal dwarf galaxies near the Milky Way contain 10 times more dark matter than the ordinary matter that makes up gas and stars, while in these so-called ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, dark matter outweighs ordinary matter by at least a factor of 100. Astronomers think the rest of the sky should contain dozens more of these ultra-faint dwarf galaxies with few stars, and the evidence for squelched star formation in the smallest of these dwarfs suggests that there may be still thousands more with essentially no stars at all.
"By measuring the star formation histories of the observed dwarfs, Hubble has supported the theoretical explanation for the paucity of such objects, according to which star formation in the smaller clumps would be shut down by reionisation," said Jason Tumlinson of the Space Telescope Science Institute, a member of the research team.
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The results are published in the 1 July issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Notes
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
The international team of astronomers in this study consists of T. M. Brown (STScI), J. Tumlinson (STScI), M. Geha (Yale), E. N. Kirby (Cal Tech), D. A. VandenBerg (University of Victoria), R. R. Munoz (University of Chile), J. S. Kalirai (STScI), J. D. Simon (Carnegie Institution), R. J. Avila (STScI), P. Guhathakurta (UCO/Lick), A. Renzini (Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova) and, H. C. Ferguson (STScI)
[1] Globular clusters are tightly-bound spherical collections of up to a few hundred thousand stars. They are known to contain some of the most ancient stars in the Universe. In addition, globular clusters are known to have formed in single events, so all the stars in them have the same age.
[2] The period of reionisation is also the limit for how far telescopes can see: the process is what rendered the Universe's hydrogen gas transparent to ultraviolet light.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and T. Brown (STScI)
Links
Science paper: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/releases/science_papers/heic1211.pdf
Images of Hubble: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/category/spacecraft/
Contacts
Tom Brown
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, USA
Tel: +1-410-338-4902
Email: tbrown@stsci.edu
Alvio Renzini
Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
Padova, Italy
Tel: +39-049-829-3503
Cell: +39-347-502-2828
Email: alvio.renzini@oapd.inaf.it
Oli Usher
Hubble/ESA
Garching, Germany
Tel: +49-89-3200-6855
Email: ousher@eso.org
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AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
[ | E-mail |
Contact: Oli Usher
ousher@eso.org
49-893-200-6855
ESA/Hubble Information Centre
Astronomers have puzzled over why some extremely faint dwarf galaxies spotted in our Milky Way galaxy's backyard contain so few stars. The galaxies are thought to be some of the tiniest, oldest, and most pristine galaxies in the Universe. They have been discovered over the past decade by astronomers using automated computer techniques to search through the images of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. But an international team of astronomers needed the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to help solve the mystery of why these galaxies are starved of stars, and why so few of them have been found.
Hubble views of three of these small galaxies, the Hercules, Leo IV and Ursa Major dwarf galaxies, reveal that they all started forming stars more than 13 billion years ago -- and then abruptly stopped -- all in the first billion years after the Universe was born in the Big Bang. In fact, the extreme age of their stars is similar to Messier 92, the oldest known globular cluster [1] in the Milky Way.
"These galaxies are all ancient and they're all the same age, so you know something came down like a guillotine and turned off the star formation at the same time in these galaxies," said Tom Brown of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, USA, the study's leader. "The most likely explanation is a process called reionisation."
The relic galaxies are evidence for a transitional phase in the early Universe that shut down star-making factories in tiny galaxies. This phase seems to coincide with the time when the first stars burned off a fog of cold hydrogen, a process called reionisation. In this period, which began in the first billion years after the Big Bang, radiation from the first stars knocked electrons off primeval hydrogen atoms, ionising the Universe's cool hydrogen gas. [2]
The same radiation that sparked universal reionisation also appears to have squelched star-making activities in dwarf galaxies, such as those in Brown's study. The small irregular galaxies were born about 100 million years before reionisation began and had just started to churn out stars at that time. Roughly 2000 light-years wide, these galaxies are the lightweight cousins of the more luminous and higher-mass star-making dwarf galaxies near our Milky Way. Unlike their higher-mass relatives, the puny galaxies were not massive enough to shield themselves from the harsh ultraviolet light. What little gas they had was stripped away as the flood of ultraviolet light rushed through them. Their gas supply depleted, the galaxies could not make new stars.
The discovery could help explain the so-called "missing satellite problem," where only a few dozen dwarf galaxies have been observed around the Milky Way while the computer simulations predict that thousands should exist. One possible explanation for the low number discovered to date is that there has been very little, or even no star formation in the smallest of these dwarf galaxies, leaving them virtually invisible.
The Sloan survey recently uncovered more than a dozen of these galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood. These have very few stars -- only a few hundred or thousand -- but a great deal of dark matter, the underlying scaffolding upon which galaxies are built. Normal dwarf galaxies near the Milky Way contain 10 times more dark matter than the ordinary matter that makes up gas and stars, while in these so-called ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, dark matter outweighs ordinary matter by at least a factor of 100. Astronomers think the rest of the sky should contain dozens more of these ultra-faint dwarf galaxies with few stars, and the evidence for squelched star formation in the smallest of these dwarfs suggests that there may be still thousands more with essentially no stars at all.
"By measuring the star formation histories of the observed dwarfs, Hubble has supported the theoretical explanation for the paucity of such objects, according to which star formation in the smaller clumps would be shut down by reionisation," said Jason Tumlinson of the Space Telescope Science Institute, a member of the research team.
###
The results are published in the 1 July issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Notes
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
The international team of astronomers in this study consists of T. M. Brown (STScI), J. Tumlinson (STScI), M. Geha (Yale), E. N. Kirby (Cal Tech), D. A. VandenBerg (University of Victoria), R. R. Munoz (University of Chile), J. S. Kalirai (STScI), J. D. Simon (Carnegie Institution), R. J. Avila (STScI), P. Guhathakurta (UCO/Lick), A. Renzini (Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova) and, H. C. Ferguson (STScI)
[1] Globular clusters are tightly-bound spherical collections of up to a few hundred thousand stars. They are known to contain some of the most ancient stars in the Universe. In addition, globular clusters are known to have formed in single events, so all the stars in them have the same age.
[2] The period of reionisation is also the limit for how far telescopes can see: the process is what rendered the Universe's hydrogen gas transparent to ultraviolet light.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and T. Brown (STScI)
Links
Science paper: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/releases/science_papers/heic1211.pdf
Images of Hubble: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/category/spacecraft/
Contacts
Tom Brown
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, USA
Tel: +1-410-338-4902
Email: tbrown@stsci.edu
Alvio Renzini
Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
Padova, Italy
Tel: +39-049-829-3503
Cell: +39-347-502-2828
Email: alvio.renzini@oapd.inaf.it
Oli Usher
Hubble/ESA
Garching, Germany
Tel: +49-89-3200-6855
Email: ousher@eso.org
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AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/eic-hug071012.php
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