Tag Archives: Astronomy

Feast your eyes on this spectacular Hubble photo of a spiral galaxy

Posted on May 5, 2019 by The Great One

30 million light-years away, think about that! Light travels at 186,282 miles per second, so… 186,282 x 60 (seconds) x 60 (minutes) x 24 (hours) x 365 (days) x 30,000,000 (years) – that is quite a distance!  The universe truly … Continue reading →

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Black hole seen for first time in image showing matter being sucked into timeless oblivion

Posted on April 10, 2019 by The Great One

What an amazing achievement!!! Just consider that the photograph of the black hole seen below was taken at the center of a galaxy that is 55 million light-years away from earth! That’s 186,282 (miles per second) x 60 (seconds) x … Continue reading →

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Is Dark Matter Made Up of Mini Black Holes from the Big Bang?

Posted on April 9, 2018 by The Great One

Interesting stuff. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Live Science By Meredith Fore, Live Science Contributor | April 9, 2018  Dark matter, the mysterious extra mass in the universe that emits no light yet exerts a gravitational pull, may actually … Continue reading →

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The other blue planet: How Mars looked 3.5bn years ago – and scientists believe the water is still there

Posted on December 24, 2017 by The Great One

It would be so cool if man could actually colonize Mars. This however, seems increasingly more unlikely to occur, given how mankind continues to “behave” here on earth. Odds are that a third world war, which quite possibly could become … Continue reading →

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Colossal distant black hole holds surprises about early universe

Posted on December 7, 2017 by The Great One

Interesting stuff. One regret of mine, and I have many, is not studying astronomy, theoretical physics, etc. I find it more fascinating and relevant than most other fields of study. It would be interesting to spend a week among people … Continue reading →

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Stephen Hawking issues dire warning: We have less than 600 years until Earth becomes a sizzling fireball

Posted on November 8, 2017 by The Great One

How we’re going to travel at the speed of light, 186,282 miles per second, is a slight problem, at least with today’s technology. Although I suppose anything is possible. It seems we would need to be integrated into a beam … Continue reading →

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Massive Galaxy That Formed Just After Big Bang Is Second Oldest Cosmic Object Ever Discovered

Posted on November 7, 2017 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Newsweek Meghan Bartels,Newsweek Astronomers announced today they’ve spotted the second-oldest object in the universe to date, a star-forming galaxy located 12.8 billion light-years away. Because astronomical observations act as a sort of … Continue reading →

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The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole is Proving Einstein Correct

Posted on August 10, 2017 by The Great One

If ever there was a reason for hoping that life after death was a real phenomenon, this is it. Just imagine how Einstein would feel in KNOWING that his theories were correct!  Obviously, this would also apply to countless other … Continue reading →

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A massive asteroid is going to zip past Earth later this month

Posted on April 9, 2017 by The Great One

If one of these rocks collides with Earth, that would more than like be the end of our species. This is how random life is. All of the wars over territory, power, money and of course, all of the religious … Continue reading →

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Universe ‘resting on sofa’ as it slowly dies

Posted on August 11, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press August 10, 2015 Sydney (AFP) – The Universe is experiencing a slow death, like a person resting on the sofa awaiting eternal sleep, according to astronomers from a project which … Continue reading →

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Methane in Mars Meteorites Suggests Possibility of Life

Posted on June 17, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi Methane, a potential sign of primitive life, has been found in meteorites from Mars, adding weight to the idea that life could live off methane on the … Continue reading →

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What Was Here Before the Solar System?

Posted on May 28, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Universe Today by Fraser Cainon May 28, 2015 The Solar System is 4.5 billion years old, but the Universe is much older. What was here before our Solar System formed? The Solar … Continue reading →

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Proto Star Cluster a Cosmic ‘Dinosaur Egg’ Ready to Hatch

Posted on May 16, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nola Taylor Redd May 15, 2015 The youngest example of one of the oldest objects in the universe may have been discovered by astronomers, who say it appears ready to … Continue reading →

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Astronomers find farthest galaxy: 13.1 billion light-years

Posted on May 5, 2015 by The Great One

What a fascinating subject! Astrophysics, astronomy, physics, science in general… I find it so interesting! Most interesting of all is man’s quest to learn more and more about the universe we live in. Will we ever have all the answers … Continue reading →

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Graveyard of Stars May Surround Milky Way’s Monster Black Hole

Posted on April 29, 2015 by The Great One

Black holes, one of the many mysteries of space… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi The remains of thousands of stars might exist in a vast graveyard near the giant black hole at the heart … Continue reading →

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New evidence that dark matter could be self-interacting

Posted on April 20, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting article regarding dark matter. TGO Refer to story below. Source: ars technica Colliding galaxies suggest dark matter interacts with forces other than gravity. by Xaq Rzetelny – Apr 19, 2015 9:00pm EDT A new study examined the galaxy cluster … Continue reading →

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Cern labs finetune measurement of Higgs boson

Posted on March 18, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press March 17, 2015 10:44 AM Geneva (AFP) – Physicists at the world’s largest particle collider have made the most accurate measurement yet of the Higgs boson, which was found after … Continue reading →

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Oldest Stars in the Universe Actually Younger Than Previously Thought

Posted on February 7, 2015 by The Great One

Interesting… This is the beauty of science, it is always seeking the facts and in doing so often makes corrections to prior data/information. It doesn’t start out with answers and then fits those answers to our world; as religion does. It … Continue reading →

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Two more planets in our Solar System, say astronomers

Posted on January 20, 2015 by The Great One

With all of the madness going on in this world, which these days and for decades to come (as with centuries past) has everything to do with religious dogmatism, it’s nice to know that there are scientists out there who … Continue reading →

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Lawrence Krauss: How the Universe Became Something out of Nothing

Posted on December 27, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting, but then again, the speaker is a scientist, not a theologian. TGO Video: YouTube  

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Dark Matter Signal May Have Been Found In Mysterious X-Ray Data

Posted on December 14, 2014 by The Great One

Science continues to make advances, seemingly at a geometric rate. Meanwhile, religious fanatics continue to believe in books littered with fairy tales; the Bible, the Koran, the Book of Mormon…Will mankind ever become truly civilized and leave behind their barbaric … Continue reading →

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Depth of Biggest Sea on Saturn’s Moon Titan Measured by NASA Probe

Posted on November 12, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall  Kraken Mare, the biggest hydrocarbon sea on Saturn’s huge moon Titan, is at least 115 feet (35 meters) deep and perhaps much deeper, a new study suggests. Radar … Continue reading →

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The Real History of Space Travel

Posted on November 10, 2014 by The Great One

Informative article for you space-junkies. TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Hollywood Reporter By Graeme McMillan November 8, 2014 4:08 PM As the promotion for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar puts it, “Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant … Continue reading →

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Some Galaxies Like Our Milky Way are Born in Colossal Crashes

Posted on September 19, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor September 18, 2014  The history of the Milky Way has a new wrinkle. Scientists used radio telescopes like the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array — a vast … Continue reading →

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Tiny galaxy harbours black-hole surprise

Posted on September 19, 2014 by The Great One

Meanwhile… as religious imbeciles pray five times a day and decapitate innocent people in the name of God, science pushes forward. The contrast between science and religion has never been more evident. The more we advance as a species thanks … Continue reading →

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Stephen Hawking Says ‘God Particle’ Could Wipe Out the Universe

Posted on September 9, 2014 by The Great One

Super-interesting stuff… While a great deal of what I read pertaining to the universe is “over my head” (no pun intended) as I am not an astronomer or physicist, it is still fascinating nonetheless… TGO Refer to story below. Source: … Continue reading →

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Newfound Asteroid Will Give Earth Super-Close Shave on Sunday

Posted on September 6, 2014 by The Great One

All of the madness going on here on earth; the fighting, the killing… Yet all it takes is one of these giant space rocks to collide with our planet and we are history… That wouldn’t be a very honorable way … Continue reading →

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Specks of star dust likely first from beyond solar system

Posted on August 15, 2014 by The Great One

The universe is such a fascinating place. It would have been incredible to have been born 100 years from now, just to know and understand what will be common knowledge then. With scientific advancements growing at a seemingly geometric rate, … Continue reading →

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The Black Hole Smokescreen

Posted on June 22, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Daily Beast By Matthew R. Francis Black holes are strange, seemingly paradoxical objects. By their nature, they are nearly invisible. Yet thanks to their powerful gravitational pull, they draw in matter, … Continue reading →

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Scientists Have Discovered A Planet They Thought Was Impossible

Posted on June 2, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Business Insider By Leslie Baehr  The “Godzilla of Earths!” is in the foreground. Behind it is the smaller ‘lava world’. Their sun, in the back, appears to have been created only 3 … Continue reading →

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The Weirdest Object in the Universe

Posted on May 18, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Daily Beast By Matthew R. Francis The Universe is full of strange things. That’s what gets many astronomers out of bed: knowing that somewhere something really weird is waiting to be … Continue reading →

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Alien Planet Camera Is Most Sensitive Exoplanet Imager Yet

Posted on May 14, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor A newly christened telescope imager built to snap photos of alien planets around distant stars is the most sensitive camera of its kind, preliminary tests … Continue reading →

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Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet

Posted on April 18, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By ALICIA CHANG LOS ANGELES (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet detected — a distant, rocky world that’s similar in size to … Continue reading →

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Exploring Dark Energy

Posted on April 13, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Daily Beast By Matthew R. Francis  The Daily Beast The Universe is expanding—the space between galaxies is growing larger all the time. Not only that, but the rate of expansion is … Continue reading →

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Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact Dwarfed by Earlier Space Rock Crash

Posted on April 11, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall, Senior Writer  Scientists have reconstructed a long-ago asteroid impact that makes the strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago look like a playful chuck on … Continue reading →

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Americas get front-row seat for lunar eclipse

Posted on April 9, 2014 by The Great One

For you star gazers out there… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By MARCIA DUNN  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — North and South America, get ready for the first eclipse of the year— in color. Next Tuesday morning, … Continue reading →

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Major Solar Flare Erupts from the Sun (Video)

Posted on April 2, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer March 31, 2014 12:26 PM The sun unleashed a major solar flare on Saturday (March 29), causing a radio blackout for several minutes on Earth, space … Continue reading →

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Does Dark Energy Spring From the ‘Quantum Vacuum?’

Posted on April 1, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall, Senior Writer  Observations of Planck and other satellites help to solve the equation of the state of dark energy. The mysterious dark energy that’s driving the universe’s accelerated … Continue reading →

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Asteroid Found with Rings! First-of-Its-Kind Discovery Stuns Astronomers

Posted on March 26, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor Scientists have made a stunning discovery in the outer realm of the solar system — an asteroid with its own set of rings that orbits … Continue reading →

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Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests

Posted on March 19, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer  Our universe may be one of many, physicists say. In fact, that’s the most likely scenario. The first direct evidence of cosmic inflation — a period … Continue reading →

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Astronomers discover echoes from expansion after Big Bang

Posted on March 18, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Irene Klotz and Sharon Begley March 17, 2014 5:40 PM NEW YORK (Reuters) – Astronomers announced on Monday that they had discovered what many consider the holy grail of their … Continue reading →

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As scientists watch, distant asteroid disintegrates

Posted on March 7, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Patsy Cline’s classic country song “I Fall to Pieces,” has nothing on this one. Scientists said on Thursday they have observed for the first time … Continue reading →

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NASA plots daring flight to Jupiter’s watery moon

Posted on March 5, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By SETH BORENSTEIN  WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA is plotting a daring robotic mission to Jupiter’s watery moon Europa, a place where astronomers speculate there might be some form of life. … Continue reading →

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Record-Breaking Meteorite Crash on Moon Sparks Brightest Lunar Explosion Ever

Posted on February 25, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Megan Gannon, News Editor  The impact of a large meteorite on the lunar surface on Sept. 11, 2013, resulted in a bright flash, observed … The high-speed impact of a wayward … Continue reading →

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Quarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth, Survey Finds

Posted on February 18, 2014 by The Great One

There is no limit to the ignorance and just plain stupidity of the human race, and that includes Americans. I suppose that if people still believe in gods and ghosts, why not believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth. … Continue reading →

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Star-rich galaxy found from universe’s baby years

Posted on February 11, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Irene Klotz February 10, 2014 9:50 PM CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Astronomers have found an old and distant galaxy that is believed to date back to a time when … Continue reading →

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Stargazing Duo Snaps Gorgeous Photo of Triangulum Galaxy

Posted on February 10, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nina Sen, SPACE.com Contributor February 9, 2014 10:19 AM The Triangulum Galaxy, catalogued Messier 33 or NGC 598, is a spiral galaxy located approximately 3 million … Two astrophotographers teamed up … Continue reading →

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Structure of ‘Baby Milky Way’ Galaxy Seen for the First Time

Posted on February 4, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor Astronomers have gotten their first clear look at galaxy in the very early universe that could have evolved into a structure somewhat like the Milky … Continue reading →

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Milky Way’s Huge Black Hole to Gobble Gas Cloud Soon

Posted on January 25, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor January 24, 2014 2:11 PM A compilation of Swift telescope observations of the center of the Milky Way, where a supermassive black … A giant gas … Continue reading →

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Smallest, Faintest Galaxies of the Ancient Universe Spotted

Posted on January 14, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor  Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the light-bending properties of the massive galaxy cluster Abell … Two of NASA’s most powerful space telescopes have teamed up … Continue reading →

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