Tag Archives: Universe

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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Star Explosion’s Beauty Revealed by Space Telescope Photo

Posted on August 26, 2014 by The Great One

Awesome! The universe is truly a magnificent place. It really is a shame that we don’t completely understand it, at least not yet. But then again, there is a certain beauty in the mysterious. TGO Refer to story below. Source: … 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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How Did Supermassive Black Holes Get So Big So Fast?

Posted on August 8, 2014 by The Great One

Black holes have always been fascinating, although rarely understood by the average Joe, such as me. In fact, I’m not so sure that even theoretical physicists such as Stephen Hawking really and truly understand black holes. Nevertheless, it is interesting … Continue reading →

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Universe Shouldn’t Be Here, According to Higgs Physics

Posted on June 24, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tia Ghose, Staff Writer  Modeling of conditions soon after the Big Bang suggests the universe should have collapsed just microseconds after its explosive birth, the new study suggests. “During the … 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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We’ll Find Alien Life in This Lifetime, Scientists Tell Congress

Posted on May 27, 2014 by The Great One

Finding intelligent alien life would be so cool, while at the same time very frightening. The odds of aliens being friendly as opposed to hostile is not very good. As Stephen Hawking stated: “If aliens visit us, the outcome would … 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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Milky Way Galaxy Shimmers Over New Zealand Pool in Stunning Amateur Photo

Posted on May 11, 2014 by The Great One

What an awesome photo! TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nina Sen, SPACE.com Contributor  The glow of the Milky Way in the night sky reflects off a deep pool along a New Zealand beach in this stunning photo … 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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Here’s The Most Remarkable Thing About The Universe, According To Bill Nye

Posted on May 3, 2014 by The Great One

In case anyone is interested in getting to know a little about Bill Nye, the “Science Guy.” It’s thanks to people like him that the religious nuts in this country haven’t completely taken over. TGO Refer to story below. Source: … 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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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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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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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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Story of the Biggest Experiment in History Caught on Film

Posted on March 4, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tanya Lewis, Staff Writer  On July 4, 2012, scientists around the world waited with bated breath for the announcement that the long-awaited Higgs boson particle had been discovered. The finding … 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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Exotic Particles, Tiny Extra Dimensions May Await Discovery

Posted on February 9, 2014 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Katia Moskvitch, LiveScience Contributor February 7, 2014 11:32 AM LONDON — Exotic particles never before detected and possibly teensy extra dimensions may be awaiting discovery, says a physicist, adding that … 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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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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Milky Way s Black Hole Is Shooting Particle Jets

Posted on November 26, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… Refer to story below. Source: Scientific American By Clara Moskowitz  A torrent of energetic particles appears to be spewing from the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, coming from the gigantic black hole that lies at its heart, … Continue reading →

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Mercury’s Volcanic Facelift Belies Planet’s True Age

Posted on July 5, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com by Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer July 3, 2013 Mercury is looking good for its age. Even the oldest parts of the surface of the planet closest to the sun are only … Continue reading →

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Scientists find hint of dark matter from cosmos

Posted on April 3, 2013 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By JOHN HEILPRIN and SETH BORENSTEIN | Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station has found the footprint of something that could be … 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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Space Bursts Provide Insight to Theory of Everything

Posted on December 8, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Nola Taylor Redd | SPACE.com Light from some of the universe’s most energetic explosions is allowing scientists to probe the nature of space-time, according to new observations of so-called gamma-ray … Continue reading →

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‘Super-Earth’ Alien Planet May Be Habitable for Life

Posted on November 7, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Mike Wall | SPACE.com Astronomers have detected an alien planet that may be capable of supporting life as we know it — and it’s just a stone’s throw from Earth … Continue reading →

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Elusive Dark Energy Is Real, Study Says

Posted on September 13, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below: Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com Dark energy, the mysterious substance thought to be accelerating the expansion of the universe, almost certainly exists despite some astronomers’ doubts, a new study says. After … Continue reading →

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CERN scientists create the highest temperature mass humanity has ever seen

Posted on August 16, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Tecca By Tecca | Today in Tech – Tue, Aug 14, 2012 Couldn’t they have waited until the wintertime when we could actually use the heat? CERN, the European physics lab responsible for discovering … Continue reading →

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Black Holes: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong

Posted on August 3, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Clara Moskowitz | SPACE.com If most people know one thing about black holes, they probably know that nothing can escape from them, not even light. Yet this most basic tenet … Continue reading →

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Oldest Spiral Galaxy in Universe Discovered

Posted on July 19, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff; to us rational people that is. If you’re a fundamentalist Christian and still believe that the universe is roughly 6000 to 10,000 years old, then I suppose you don’t believe any of this. Oh well, ignorance is bliss. … Continue reading →

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Weird Galaxy Glows Bright in Amazing Telescope Photo

Posted on May 16, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com A telescope in Chile has caught a spectacular new view of a peculiar galaxy with a monster black hole at its heart. The new image shows … Continue reading →

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Dark Matter May Collide With Atoms Inside You More Often Than Thought

Posted on April 27, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Charles Q. Choi | SPACE.com Invisible dark matter particles may regularly pass through our bodies, and dozens to thousands of these particles may be colliding with atoms inside us every … Continue reading →

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Japan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster

Posted on April 25, 2012 by The Great One

To think that each one of those tiny disks in the photograph is a galaxy, some similar to our own Milky Way while others being much larger; each containing trillions of stars, planets, moons, asteroids, etc. is truly mind-boggling. Add … Continue reading →

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Nearby Dark Matter Mysteriously Missing

Posted on April 20, 2012 by The Great One

Those of us who enjoy learning and making an attempt to understand why things are the way they are find these articles quite interesting; those of us with simple minds don’t. Those who don’t are generally the religious types who … Continue reading →

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Scientists Closing in on Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy

Posted on April 6, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor, Space.com  SPACE.com Though scientists have suspected for a while that a giant black hole lurks at the center of our galaxy, they still can’t … Continue reading →

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First ‘Alien Earth’ May Be Found by 2014

Posted on April 4, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff, Space.com | SPACE.com The first true “alien Earth” will likely be discovered in the next two years, a NASA scientist says. Astronomers have found more than 750 alien … Continue reading →

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Earth Formed From Diverse Meteorite Mix, Study Suggests

Posted on March 2, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor Space.com | SPACE.com Earth’s building blocks were more eclectic than once thought, according to a new study suggesting our planet formed from collisions of … Continue reading →

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Our Baby Universe Likely Expanded Rapidly, Study Suggests

Posted on February 29, 2012 by The Great One

Once again, I find it almost necessary to apologize to religious idiots when I post a story on science, especially those of you residing in the United States (you know who you are) who still believe in Creationism. Yes, I … Continue reading →

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Mysterious Ultra-Red Galaxies May Be Cosmic ‘Missing Link’

Posted on December 3, 2011 by The Great One

Fascinating stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Space.com, staff Space.com | SPACE.com Scientists have spied a new type of ultra-red galaxy lurking at the far reaches of the universe, a new study reports. Using NASA’s Spitzer space … Continue reading →

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Studies of universe’s expansion win physics Nobel

Posted on October 4, 2011 by The Great One

For those of you who stumbled upon this article but still believe that God created the universe in 6 days and that it is only a few thousand years old, you may leave the page now. For those of you … Continue reading →

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James A. Haught: “Does God Exist?”

Posted on June 30, 2011 by The Great One

Does God Exist? Well, it depends on what you mean by God. The universe is a maze of mysteries. How can gravity – an invisible, unexplainable force – pull the Milky Way into a spiral? How can atoms contain such … Continue reading →

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Rare Sight: Giant Black Hole Devours Star, Fires Beams at Earth

Posted on June 17, 2011 by The Great One

Science is truly fascinating, and I believe cosmology to be especially so! TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer, Space.com Thu Jun 16, 11:44 pm ET A powerful beam of energy has been spotted blasting out from the center … Continue reading →

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Morgan Freeman asks huge questions on ‘Wormhole’

Posted on June 6, 2011 by The Great One

This promises to be a very interesting series for people who are open-minded and perform that rare activity called thinking. For those of you out there who believe you have all the answers, well, you can always tune in to … Continue reading →

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Huge Space Explosion Is Farthest Thing Ever Seen

Posted on May 26, 2011 by The Great One

Fascinating stuff!!! TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Senior Writer, Space.com  This story was updated at 3 p.m. ET. BOSTON — A short, extremely bright explosion of light recently spotted in the night sky may be … Continue reading →

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