Tag Archives: Milky Way

Newly found galaxy cluster could become most massive structure in universe

The vastness and complexity of the universe is almost incomprehensible. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Yahoo News April 25, 2018 About 12.4 billion light-years from Earth lies a collection of galaxies that could end up as the most massive … Continue reading

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Was Einstein Right? Single Star Will Let Astronomers Test Theory of Relativity

Einstein’s theory of relativity has stood the test of time; over 100 years and counting. My guess is it will once again be proven right. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Newsweek Meghan Bartels, Newsweek Later this year, a special … Continue reading

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

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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Earth 2.0: Bad News for God

This is a great article, if for no other reason because it is absolutely true. Nothing, no level of knowledge, will do away with religious doctrine. Nor will all the knowledge in the world keep the masses from believing and worshipping … Continue reading

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A nearby black hole just erupted for the first time in 26 years and scientists are ecstatic

The universe is such an intriguing place. One has to wonder if we, the human race, will ever know how it all came to be; whether there is one universe or multiple universes, what are all of the natural forces … Continue reading

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What Was Here Before the Solar System?

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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Astronomers find farthest galaxy: 13.1 billion light-years

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

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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Some Galaxies Like Our Milky Way are Born in Colossal Crashes

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

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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Universe Shouldn’t Be Here, According to Higgs Physics

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

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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The Weirdest Object in the Universe

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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Milky Way Galaxy Shimmers Over New Zealand Pool in Stunning Amateur Photo

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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Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet

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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Stargazing Duo Snaps Gorgeous Photo of Triangulum Galaxy

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

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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Dark Matter Near Earth Peaks Every March, New Study Suggests

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Scientific American By Clara Moskowitz January 6, 2014 6:30 AM Billions of particles of invisible “dark matter” are probably flying through your body right now, passing through the spaces between your atoms … Continue reading

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Star Trails and Milky Way Shine over Lighthouse in Dazzling Photo

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nina Sen, SPACE.com Contributor  The Milky Way moves across the night sky in this stunning composite image recently sent to SPACE.com. Astrophotographer Mike Taylor combined 65 frames from a static time … Continue reading

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Milky Way s Black Hole Is Shooting Particle Jets

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

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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Jaw-Dropping Milky Way Galaxy View Wins Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com by Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor An Australian space photographer has won top spot in a global space photography competition, with a spectacular “star-riddled” photo of the Milky Way galaxy, a jaw-dropping … Continue reading

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Number of Confirmed Alien Planets Nears 1,000

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com by Mike Wall, Senior Writer September 27, 2013 7:16 AM Just two decades after discovering the first world beyond our solar system, astronomers are closing in on alien planet No. 1,000. … Continue reading

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Space Cloud Ripped Apart by Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience Megan Gannon Astronomers have spied a huge gas cloud being pulled like taffy around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. Their observations suggest that the space … Continue reading

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You’re Interacting With Dark Matter Right Now

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Atlantic By Megan Garber | The Atlantic Here’s a little experiment. Hold up your hand. Now put it back down. In that window of time, your hand somehow interacted with dark … Continue reading

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Could Life Be Older Than Earth Itself?

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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Star Caught Circling Black Hole at Record-Breaking Speed

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Megan Gannon | SPACE.com Astronomers have spotted a star in our galaxy that races around a black hole at a breakneck speed, orbiting once every 2.4 hours, scientists say. The … Continue reading

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Most Earth-Like Alien Planet Possibly Found

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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Double-Star Systems Can Be Dangerous for Exoplanets

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Mike Wall | SPACE.com Alien planets born in widely separated two-star systems face a grave danger of being booted into interstellar space, a new study suggests. Exoplanets circling a star with … Continue reading

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Hubble Telescope Sees Two Galaxies in Cosmic Dance

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com A stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope has captured the perfect galactic portrait: two galaxies that are so different from one another, yet together … Continue reading

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Milky Way ‘Haze’ May Be Dark Matter Signature

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com Strange radiation streaming from the core of our Milky Way galaxy may be a long-sought signal of dark matter, the elusive stuff thought to make up … Continue reading

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Ingredients for Big Black Holes Detected in Milky Way’s Core

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Charles Q. Choi | SPACE.com Scientists investigated our galaxy’s central molecular zone, which contains the most massive, densest, and most turbulent molecular clouds in the Milky Way. These surround the … Continue reading

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Oldest Spiral Galaxy in Universe Discovered

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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40 Million Stars Mapped in New Night Sky Census

Interesting stuff… And if you think that’s interesting, just think: God made all of those stars, and billions more like them (some of which are a hundred times larger than our Sun) in just 6 days! Now that’s interesting. And … Continue reading

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Odds of Finding Alien Life Boosted by Billions of Habitable Worlds

How about that, there is a very good likelihood that God didn’t create us in his image. Certainly we’re not the only intelligent life in the entire universe… What would be the odds of that, given the billions of habitable … Continue reading

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Japan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster

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

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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Pulsing Stars Could Probe Space-Time Around Black Holes

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor, Space.com | SPACE.com If a pulsing star exists near the center of our Milky Way galaxy, where a giant black hole is thought to lurk, … Continue reading

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Scientists Closing in on Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy

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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New Milky Way Photo Captures 1 Billion Stars

Fascinating stuff! TGO Note: Click on image to enlarge Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff, Space.com | SPACE.com More than a billion stars blaze bright in a new photo of our Milky Way galaxy snapped by an … Continue reading

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Andromeda Galaxy’s Exotic X-Ray Signal Actually a Bright Black Hole

I wonder if hundreds of millions or maybe billions of years down the road this will be our fate; our entire solar system “swallowed” by a black hole? If we don’t destroy ourselves first, odds are our existence will end … Continue reading

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Evidence of Big Bang May Disappear in 1 Trillion Years

While this article is entertaining, informative and interesting, I also found it to be somewhat silly. First of all, there isn’t one individual alive today who would honestly care what scientists could or could not determine a trillion years from … Continue reading

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For Fully Mature Black Holes, Time Stands Still

Super cool stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Senior Writer Space.com clara Moskowitz, Space.com Senior Writer space.com Thu Jan 27, 3:30 pm ET The end of a black hole’s evolution may be a mind-bending kind of space-time independent of … Continue reading

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Hubble telescope zeroes in on green blob in space

Incredibly interesting and fascinating stuff! TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer WASHINGTON – The Hubble Space Telescope got its first peek at a mysterious giant green blob … Continue reading

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First glimpse of a planet from another galaxy

The study of cosmology is one of the most fascinating of all the sciences. I can only imagine what discoveries will be made in the next hundred years and beyond, as our technology advances at a geometric rate. TGO Refer … Continue reading

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