Galaxy

PASADENA, Calif. -- Before the opening whistle, the Los Angeles Galaxy already had good news: Once again, Major League Soccer's L.A. franchise exceeded all attendance expectations as 53,147 filed into the Rose Bowl on Opening Night last night.The Galaxy outplayed defending MLS champion D.C. United in a defensive game that sucked much of the life out of what started out as a lively crowd, one in which neither team could score in regulation.The United, which came from two goals down to beat Los Angeles, 3-2, in the inaugural MLS Cup last season, won by the same score in the shootout to spoil the Galaxy's day and take a 1-0 victory.

Show children how big the universe is at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. Children and their families can get a glimpse of plans for the James Webb Space Telescope and its research into galaxy formation and star life cycles. Children will get to see how the telescope will explore using infrared light. The “Sunday Experiment” event is Sunday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Goddard Center's Visitor Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road. Find more information on the center's website .

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Moves Baseball GIANTS -- Agreed to one-year contract with SS Omar Vizquel. PIRATES -- Named Chuck Tanner senior adviser for baseball operations. College TOWSON -- Reinstated football CB Eric Clark to team. Football NFL -- Fined Panthers DE Julius Peppers and LB Na'il Diggs $5,000 each for actions during Sunday's game against Titans. JAGUARS -- Signed DE Jeremy Mincey. Soccer GALAXY (MLS) -- Named Cobi Jones assistant coach.

Names in the newsFrank Moran has been named director of sales for Galaxy Automotive of Glen Burnie, Ellicott City and Columbia. Moran, who has 28 years of experience in the Baltimore market, will oversee new and used vehicle sales for Galaxy's three area locations. Galaxy is owned by March Hodge Master Management, which has dealerships across the country, and was named 1999 Automobile Dealer of the Year by Black Enterprise magazine.Melanie Clay has been named director of cable products and services for Millennium Networks.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope to peer straight into the hub of the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore have found evidence of 16 more Jupiter-sized planets, each circling its own sun. These new planet candidates are the most distant - some 26,000 light years from Earth - of the more than 200 "extrasolar" planets detected so far. Their abundance, the astronomers say, suggests our galaxy alone may hold...

A team of astronomers from the University of Maryland and Harvard has discovered a newborn star at the edge of our Milky Way galaxy, challenging the conventional view that stars aren't likely to form so far from the gas-rich stellar nurseries found closer to the galaxy's core."

WASHINGTON - Astronomers using NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory say they have detected the death cry of a sun-like star being ripped apart and partly devoured by a huge black hole. The star's last gasp, described yesterday by scientists at NASA headquarters, was a powerful X-ray flare that erupted from the center of a previously quiet galaxy. Albert Einstein theorized the existence of black holes in 1915 - objects so massive that even light could not escape their gravitational grasp.

It could be the ultimate in long-range weather observations.University of Maryland radio astronomers say they have spotted water clouds near the center of a galaxy called Markarian 1, a smudge of stars 200 million light years away in the constellation Pisces.It is the most distant water detected in the universe."It's always exciting to find a superlative," said James Braatz of Greenbelt, a UM doctoral candidate who led the research as part of his work on the structure of "active" galaxies, those believed to be powered by black holes.

Two Baltimore elementary schools will soon be part of a nationwide network using satellite technology to deliver educational programs and link up dozens of schools around the country.Elmer A. Henderson and Pimlico Elementary schools are participating in the "Galaxy Classroom" project, started by California-based Hughes Aircraft Co. and using its satellite communications technology.The non-profit project, which includes 37 schools around the country and one in Mexico, will equip several classrooms in eachschool with computers, televisions, VCRs, fax machines and telephones.