Tag Archives: Earth

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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Warm blooded or cold? Dinosaurs were somewhere in between

Posted on June 14, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham June 12, 2014 4:11 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The hot question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold blooded like reptiles, fish and amphibians … 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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Scientists crown world heavyweight champion of dinosaurs

Posted on May 9, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – This guy could really throw his weight around. Scientists on Tuesday unveiled body weight estimates for an astounding 426 different dinosaur species using a formula … Continue reading →

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Dark Matter and Dark Energy Mysteries: Do Neutrons Hold the Key?

Posted on May 7, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor  Neutrons bouncing in Earth’s gravity are helping to shed light on two of the greatest mysteries in the universe, dark matter and dark energy, researchers … Continue reading →

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Ancient flying reptile from China fills evolutionary gap

Posted on April 26, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham April 24, 2014  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was the start of something big – really big. Scientists on Thursday said they have found a fossil from 163 million … 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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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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Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth’s worst mass extinction

Posted on April 4, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham March 31, 2014 4:00 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sometimes bad things come in small packages. A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth’s atmosphere triggered a … 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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Seeds of Monster Black Holes Were Surprisingly Big

Posted on March 30, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall, Senior Writer March 28, 2014 6:06 PM The gigantic black holes that lurk at the hearts of galaxies were apparently born big.  The central black holes in dwarf … 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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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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Confirmed: Oldest Fragment of Early Earth is 4.4 Billion Years Old

Posted on February 23, 2014 by The Great One

The earth is 4.4 billion years old? Don’t tell that to a fundamentalist Christian, as he or she will argue with you until the end of days, insisting that the entire universe, not earth, but the universe is only 6000 … 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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Solar Wind Creates Water in Star Dust, Implications for Life

Posted on January 29, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor  Solar wind can form water on interplanetary dust, potentially adding to the primordial soup that gave rise to life on Earth, scientists say. On Earth, … 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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11 Must-See Skywatching Events in 2014

Posted on January 1, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist December 31, 2013 8:36 AM As 2013 draws to a close, it’s time to look forward to the stargazing highlights of the coming year. Here … Continue reading →

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The biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2013

Posted on December 29, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: THE WEEK From cloning to potential alien life By The Week Staff | 8:00am ET A galaxy teeming with Earths Astronomers calculated that there are 11 billion possibly habitable planets in our galaxy, greatly … Continue reading →

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Scientists discover greenhouse gas 7,100 times more potent than carbon dioxide

Posted on December 11, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff.. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Geekquinox By Scott Sutherland | Geekquinox A team of chemists from the University of Toronto has published a study that found a gas called perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA), which has been in use for … Continue reading →

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Venus Now Shining at Its Brightest: How to See It

Posted on December 7, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGORefer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Geoff Gaherty, Starry Night Education December 5, 2013 6:56 PM Venus is shining at its brightest in the low southwestern night sky just after sunset, making it a fine time for … Continue reading →

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How to Find Alien Life on Dying Planets

Posted on December 2, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor  If life does exist anywhere else in the universe, it may only be fleeting. Now scientists are researching how signs of life might look on … Continue reading →

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Giant Electric Fields May Supercharge Particles In Earth’s Radiation Belts

Posted on December 1, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor  Huge electric fields in the radiation belts around Earth may help explain how electrons surrounding the planet can be accelerated to speeds near that of … Continue reading →

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No sign of comet after pass around sun: scientists

Posted on November 30, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Irene Klotz November 28, 2013 3:34 PM (Reuters) – A comet’s 5.5-million-year journey to the inner solar system apparently ended during a suicidal trip around the sun, leaving no trace … Continue reading →

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What 11 Billion People Mean for Space Travel

Posted on November 28, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Mike Wall, Senior Writer  Robert Zubrin wants humanity to put down roots on Mars, and he thinks he knows how to make it happen at a reasonable price. The key … Continue reading →

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As Myth Marries Science, the Origin Story Matters (Op-Ed)

Posted on November 10, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting article… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Roger Briggs November 8, 2013 5:09 PM Imagine that you just woke up where you are right now, with no memory of the past. You have amnesia. Your body and … Continue reading →

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Study: 8.8 billion Earth-size, just-right planets

Posted on November 5, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By SETH BORENSTEIN  WASHINGTON (AP) — Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets … Continue reading →

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Did Venus Give Earth the Moon? Wild New Theory on Lunar History

Posted on October 3, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com by Katia Moskvitch, SPACE.com Contributor October 1, 2013 1:39 PM LONDON —The Earth’s moon may be a present from Venus, which once had a moon and then lost it, a new … Continue reading →

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Why Earth’s Inner and Outer Cores Rotate in Opposite Directions

Posted on September 19, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Laura Poppick, Staff Writer The earth’s magnetic field controls the direction and speed at which Earth’s inner and outer cores spin, even though they move in opposite directions, new research … Continue reading →

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On Giant Blue Alien Planet, It Rains Molten Glass

Posted on September 3, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com   by Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor There’s a “blue marble” alien planet just 63 light-years from Earth, but the world is anything but friendly to life. Researchers say the blue color … Continue reading →

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Earth Life Likely Came from Mars, Study Suggests

Posted on August 29, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com by Mike Wall, Senior Writer NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope snapped this shot of Mars on Aug. 26, 2003, when the Red Planet was 34.7 … We may all be Martians. Evidence is … Continue reading →

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‘We Might Be Martians’

Posted on July 1, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Atlantic By J.J. Gould | The Atlantic In a sense, the history of astronomy has been a history of the marginalization of life on Earth in our understanding of the universe. … Continue reading →

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Finding the Path to Earth’s Early Oxygen

Posted on June 29, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Becky Oskin, Staff Writer  The game changer for life on Earth was photosynthesis. Now scientists think they’ve found a molecular stepping-stone for this complicated chemical process, which flooded the atmosphere … Continue reading →

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Huge Asteroid Cruises Past Earth

Posted on June 1, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting… Millions upon millions of human beings waste their lives fighting with one another, abusing one another, killing one another… And yet, if one of these gigantic asteroids collides with Earth, people will realize just how stupid they are and … Continue reading →

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Did Asteroid Impacts Spark Life’s ‘Left-Handed’ Molecules?

Posted on May 1, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor | SPACE.com The mysterious bias of life on Earth toward molecules that skew one way and not the other could be due to how light … Continue reading →

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Could Life Be Older Than Earth Itself?

Posted on April 20, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Jillian Scharr, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer | LiveScience.com – Thu, Apr 18, 2013 Applying a maxim from computer science to biology raises the intriguing  possibility that life existed before Earth did … Continue reading →

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Sun Unleashes Biggest Solar Flare of the Year Yet

Posted on April 12, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Tariq Malik | SPACE.com The most powerful solar flare of the year erupted from the sun today (April 11) sparking a temporary radio blackout on Earth, NASA officials say. The … Continue reading →

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Subatomic calculations indicate finite lifespan for universe

Posted on February 18, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Irene Klotz | Reuters BOSTON (Reuters) – Scientists are still sorting out the details of last year’s discovery of the Higgs boson particle, but add up the numbers and it’s … Continue reading →

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Most Earth-Like Alien Planet Possibly Found

Posted on January 10, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Clara Moskowitz | SPACE.com LONG BEACH, Calif. — A possible alien planet discovered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope is the most Earth-like world yet detected beyond our solar system, scientists … Continue reading →

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Sun Rings In New Year with Solar Eruption

Posted on January 2, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com As people around the world  rang in the New Year to celebrate Earth’s latest trip around the sun Monday night, our closest star marked the occasion … Continue reading →

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Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution

Posted on December 27, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor | LiveScience.com – Wed, Dec 26, 2012 At Olduvai Gorge, where excavations helped to confirm Africa was the cradle of humanity, scientists now find the landscape once fluctuated … Continue reading →

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New ‘Baby Picture’ of Universe Unveiled

Posted on December 25, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Megan Gannon, News Editor | SPACE.com – Fri, Dec 21, 2012 Astronomers have released a new “baby picture” of the universe. The all-sky image draws on nine years’ worth of data from … Continue reading →

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Potentially Habitable Planet Detected Around Nearby Star

Posted on December 19, 2012 by The Great One

At the rate we’re going as a species, we will more than likely become extinct (by our own doing) before acquiring the technology to travel light years through space. Nevertheless, scientific discoveries are always interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story … Continue reading →

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5 Mayan Apocalypse Myths Debunked

Posted on December 18, 2012 by The Great One

Doomsday is almost upon us… Aren’t you scared? The religious nit-wits are… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer | LiveScience.com On Friday, Dec. 21, some say, the Mayan apocalypse will arrive and the … Continue reading →

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Water on Mars and Earth Had Similar Origins

Posted on November 21, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com The Earth’s oceans and the water that once flowed on Mars likely came from a similar source: meteorites that landed on the planets when they were … Continue reading →

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