Tag Archives: Astrophysics

Neil deGrasse Tyson on God

For those of you who don’t know who Neil deGrasse Tyson is, he’s a world-renowned astrophysicist, and obviously a brilliant man. In this brief video, he logically and artfully explains why he doesn’t believe in God. Video: YouTube

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

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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Are We The Only Intelligent Life in the Universe?? | Joe Rogan & Brian Cox

In my opinion, there is absolutely no way that we are the only “intelligent” life form in our galaxy, much less the universe. As physicist Brian Cox explains, there are a trillion galaxies in the universe and over 13 billion … Continue reading

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Time Travel Is Possible Through Wormholes—but You Can Only Ever Go Backward

Interesting stuff… Refer to story below. Source: Newsweek Hannah Osborne, Newsweek Time travel through a wormhole is technically feasible under the rules of theoretical physics—the only catch is that we can only ever go backward. In a blog post for … Continue reading

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Brightest Galaxy in the Universe Found

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall May 22, 2015 A newfound galaxy 12.5 billion light-years from Earth is the most luminous one known in the universe, blazing more brightly than 300 trillion suns, a … Continue reading

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

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

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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Colossal Ancient Galaxies Die from the Inside Out

Astrophysics is such an amazing field. There is so much mystery; so much to speculate on and so much to discover. In this day and age, when so much is known about our world, it is so fascinating to have the … Continue reading

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A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Interesting and informative conversation. TGO Video: YouTube  

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science, Religion and the Universe | Moyers & Company

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a fascinating man. If interested, go ahead and view the video below. TGO Video: YouTube  

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Major Solar Flare Erupts from the Sun (Video)

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?’

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

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

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

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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Star-rich galaxy found from universe’s baby years

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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Flare Star Gets 15 Times Brighter in Minutes

Interesting stuff… TGO By Megan Gannon | SPACE.com A normally dull star in Ursa Major, the Great Bear constellation, give off an incredible flare while scientists watched, increasing its brightness 15-fold in just three minutes, before returning to normal. Dubbed … Continue reading

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