A sample of 23 galaxies just 800 million years after the big bang was published by a team of astronomers: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02985v3 The article is...

Hi - - does anybody have a rough idea of the increase in accuracy which the upcoming ESA Planck CMB Probe will give us regarding the age of the universe? The...

Is there an overarching link between the fact that, on the one hand: (1) plate tectonic motions range typically between a few mm/year to about 100 mm/year, &...

An impossible question? I would like to know if there is a straightforward way of calculating the sum of two different gravitational potentials U and V at...

Here is some information on a current problem with newsgroup submissions. Contents: Background Current problem Workaround Solution ...

Over the next few days there is likely to be a delay in posting articles to s.a.r., due to a shortage of moderators with internet access. Apologies for any...

Due to a serious mail problem at Bristol and a rash attempt on my part to work round it, a number of messages recently sent to s.a.r. have been bounced. The...

As both moderators of s.a.r. are travelling for parts of August, it is possible that there will be some delay in posting new articles, particularly in the...

Because of a power failure at a remote location that can't be sorted out until the new year s.a.r. postings are going via a different route from the usual one...

Apologies for posting delays over the last few days -- I've been switching to a new method of posting articles, and it's had some teething troubles. It should...

Apologies for posting delays over the last few days -- I've been switching to a new method of posting articles, and it's had some teething troubles. It should...

Apologies for posting delays over the last few days -- I've been switching to a new method of posting articles, and it's had some teething troubles. It should...

Apologies for posting delays over the last few days -- I've been switching to a new method of posting articles, and it's had some teething troubles. It should...

Both moderators of the newsgroup will likely have no Internet access between the 30th July and the 1st/2nd August. There will therefore be a delay in posting...

Approval of postings will probably be more intermittent than usual over the period 24 Dec -- 5 Jan, and may stop altogether between 30 Dec and 5 Jan, while the...

As both moderators are mostly offline between the 27th July and the 3rd August, there will be a delay in new postings appearing of up to a week (worst case)...

Dear s.a.r. readers, it's been pointed out that the moderators.isc.org mail systems that relay s.a.r. postings from your news server to the moderators have...

Dear readers, please remember that in order to receive rejection messages for articles that are not in accordance with the s.a.r. charter, you need to supply...

I would like to save some links from the ADS abstract search. However, the automatically generated link is too long. I've found that a rather obvious...

http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07800 also https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/the-universe-is-inhomogeneous-does-it-matter/ RLO http://www3.amherst.edu/~r...