OK lets first clear something up … the Russian meteor, pictured left, that blasted across the sky above Russia’s Ural Mountains …Click to read more…
cosmology
Andromeda … some stunning new pictures revealing details never seen before
A couple of new views of Andromeda from the Herschel space observatory are now available. The first is a mosaic …Click to read more…
Claim: “Revolutionary Theory of Dark Matter” … Nope, it is just an idea that has not yet been confirmed.
We know that most of the universe is dark matter, but we have no idea what dark Matter actually is. …Click to read more…
Stars
I have two Star related items for you today. 100,000 Stars Google has launched a new Chrome Experiment called “100,000 Stars,” …Click to read more…
Building your very own Universe
A new computational model that can accurately follow the birth and evolution of thousands of galaxies over billions of years …Click to read more…
NASA spacecraft reveals new observations of interstellar matter
Now this all hit my … “Oh-thats-Cool” … button. You know of course that the earth has a magnetic field …Click to read more…
Where did the Universe come from?
I like to debate in various forums with many different folks about many different things. Why? Well it helps me …Click to read more…
Cosmos is coming back
Do you remember Cal Sagan on Cosmos? Well, plans are afoot to bring it back in 2013. Sadly Carl is …Click to read more…
(BBC) Antimatter Tevatron mystery gains ground
US particle physicists are inching closer to determining why the Universe exists in its current form, made overwhelmingly of matter. …Click to read more…
Fermi gamma-ray image updates ‘extreme Universe’ view
The Fermi space telescope has yielded the most detailed gamma ray map of the sky – representing the Universe’s most …Click to read more…
Oldest galaxy is lone ranger
The most distant galaxy ever detected has been found .. how old? 13.2 billion light years … <insert stunned silence …Click to read more…
Two favorite Hubble images
Of all the Hubble images available, what is your favorite? Well, here are a couple of mine. Pillars of Creation …Click to read more…
No evidence of time before Big Bang
Latest research deflates the idea that the Universe cycles for eternity. Our view of the early Universe may be full …Click to read more…
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