A previously unproven tool in the planet-hunting arsenal has finally netted its quarry—and it’s found an unusual cosmic duo. Using a technique called astrometry, scientists have spotted an extrasolar planet that’s thought to be the same size as its parent star. Full Story
Monday, April 20, 2009
Dust particles contained in a type of burnt-out star known as “white dwarfs” could be the remnants of planets similar to our own, they concluded. An international team, which included Dr Jay Farihi of the University of Leicester, found evidence that between one and three per cent of white dwarfs could once have had their own solar systems. Full Story
Monday, April 20, 2009
The first stage of the switch-on of one of the world’s most powerful stargazing systems has got under way. Seven radio telescopes around the UK have been linked with optical fibres, allowing scientists to probe deeper into the Universe than ever before. The new data-link upgrade has replaced the older microwave technology that once connected the telescopes. Tim O’Brien, from the e-Merlin project, [...]
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The image, taken by NASA’s space-based Chandra Observatory telescope, shows an X-ray nebula 150 light years across. It shows what appear to be ghostly blue fingers — thumb and pinky clearly discernible from index, ring and middle digits — reaching into a sparkling cloud of fiery red. NASA says the display is caused by a young and powerful pulsar, known by the rather prosaic name of PSR B1509-58. Full Story
Thursday, March 26, 2009
A year later and millions of Americans are dead and the nation’s infrastructure lies in tatters. The World Bank declares America a developing nation. Europe, Scandinavia, China and Japan are also struggling to recover from the same fateful event - a violent storm, 150 million kilometres away on the surface of the sun. It sounds ridiculous. Surely the sun couldn’t create so profound a disaster on Earth. Yet an [...]
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
A spectacular “cosmic eye” has been photographed in space by a telescope in Chile, showing a distant nebula in which sunlike stars are burning themselves out. The image of the Helix nebula, which lies 700 light years away in the constellation Aquarius, was captured with the Wide Field Imager instrument at the La Silla Observatory high above the Atacama Desert. Full Story
Friday, February 20, 2009
NASA’s Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the biggest gamma ray burst ever detected, a report published Thursday in Science Express said. The spectacular blast, which occurred in September in the Carina constellation, produced energies ranging from 3,000 to more than five billion times that of visible light, astrophysicists said. Full Story
Friday, February 20, 2009
The spectacular collision between two satellites on Feb. 10 could make the shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope too risky to attempt. Before the collision, space junk problems had already upped the Hubble mission’s risk of a “catastrophic impact” beyond NASA’s usual limits, Nature’s Geoff Brumfiel reported today, and now the problem will be worse. Full Story
Thursday, January 15, 2009
These stunning images show mysterious columns of light streaming into the sky above the town of Sigulda in Latvia at the end of last month. Taken by designer Aigar Truhins with a standard digital camera, the photographs have prompted excited online discussions among amateur astronomists all over the internet. See More Pics
Thursday, January 8, 2009
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected. The roar is from the distant cosmos. Nobody knows what causes it. Full Story
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
For the past quarter century, dark matter has been a mystery we’ve just had to live with. But the time may be getting close when science can finally unveil what this befuddling stuff is that makes up most of the matter in the universe. Dark matter can’t be seen. Nobody even knows what it is. But it must be there, because without it galaxies would fly apart. Full Story
Thursday, December 11, 2008
(CNN) – German astronomers say they have discovered conclusive proof of a supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy. Full Story
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, many hundreds of thousands of stars move about in the globular cluster M13, as Hubble catches an instantaneous glimpse of one of the brightest and best-known globular clusters in the northern sky. This glittering metropolis of stars is easily found in the winter sky in the constellation Hercules, and can…Full Story
Thursday, December 4, 2008
On Nov. 11, 1572, astronomer Tycho Brahe observed a bright “new star” — now known as a supernova — in the constellation Cassiopeia. Brahe observed the star, which outshone even Venus in the night sky until it faded from sight in March 1574. Full Story
Monday, December 1, 2008
Astronomers say they have directly imaged a giant exoplanet orbiting its parent star. The announcement comes on the heels of two other reports this month of direct images of planets beyond our solar system. Full Story
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) - Astronomers looking at the spectacular supersonic plumes of gas and dust shooting off one of Saturn’s moons say there are strong hints of liquid water, a key building block of life. Full Story
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Between 500 and 1,000 massive asteroids cross the Earth’s path regularly and any one of them could cause a global catastrophe, space experts warned Tuesday, urging quick preventive measures. Some 6,000 cosmic objects circulating around the planet are currently known to experts in the field, the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) told a press conference at the UN headquarters in Vienna, where it presented its report “Asteroid Threats: A [...]
Friday, November 14, 2008
Astronomers have taken what they say are the first-ever direct images of planets outside of our solar system, including a visible-light snapshot of a single-planet system and an infrared picture of a multiple-planet system. Earthlike worlds might also exist in the…Full Story
Thursday, November 13, 2008
A stunning light display over Saturn has stumped scientists who say it behaves unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. The blueish-green glow was found over the ringed planet’s north polar region just like Earth’s northern lights. It was discovered by the infrared instruments on NASA’s…Full Story
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Every time you get the notion that this planet is it, we only need to look to some photos of space. God has things out there that will one day blow our minds. Check out this story.
Friday, August 29, 2008
This is an awesome picture of what God has done around the universe. Enjoy
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This is really intense so be prepared. It is interesting to note that Buddhism teaches in the last days that Maitreya would come. The foundation is being prepared for some serious deceptions.
Congresswoman Bachmann “We Would Do Well To Humble Ourselves Before God!”–This is an amazing testimony
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