Tag Archives: NASA

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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Gigantic Black Holes Just Got Even Bigger

Posted on December 20, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Charles Q. Choi | SPACE.com A number of the largest black holes in the universe may be even bigger than previously thought, researchers say. “Ultra-massive black holes — that is, … 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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Doomsday 2012: Watch the ‘End of the World’ Live Online

Posted on December 18, 2012 by The Great One

Three days ’til the end of the world! Yeah, right – if you believe that you’re brain-dead beyond repair. Just drop me a note on this Blog on December 22, 2012; if you’re still alive that is! I never seize … Continue reading →

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Good news: If the world ends next week, one Canadian will live to tell the tale

Posted on December 12, 2012 by The Great One

If nothing else, this story is a dichotomy… No two subjects are more opposite at their very core than religion and science. Here you have a man of science (an astronaut) traveling hundreds of thousands of miles through space during … Continue reading →

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NASA: Voyager 1 enters new region of solar system

Posted on December 4, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By By ALICIA CHANG | Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The unstoppable Voyager 1 spacecraft has sailed into a new realm of the solar system that scientists did not … 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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Monster Galaxy’s Core Is Biggest Ever Seen

Posted on October 27, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com – Fri, Oct 26, 2012 A faraway galaxy’s core is the largest ever seen, and it may have been puffed up by the merger of two black holes, … Continue reading →

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Super-Dense Neutron Star Is Fastest Ever Seen

Posted on October 26, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Mike Wall | SPACE.com Astronomers have discovered an ultra-dense star that orbits with a dying stellar companion once every 93 minutes, making it the fastest-orbiting star of its kind. The … Continue reading →

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Sun Unleashes Huge Solar Plasma Wave

Posted on October 20, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com A giant wave of super-hot solar plasma larger than the Earth erupted from the sun on Friday (Oct. 19) in a spectacular display captured by a … Continue reading →

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Nearby Earth-Sized Alien Planet Could Spur Interstellar Exploration

Posted on October 19, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Mike Wall | SPACE.com The recent discovery of an Earth-size alien planet right next door to us could help spark humanity’s first true steps beyond our own solar system, scientists … Continue reading →

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Hubble Telescope Sees Two Galaxies in Cosmic Dance

Posted on September 7, 2012 by The Great One

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

Posted on September 5, 2012 by The Great One

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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Powerful Spinning Star May be Fastest Stellar Runaway

Posted on August 15, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Nola Taylor Redd | SPACE.com Fleeing from the scene of a violent supernova explosion, a compact runaway star may be the fastest traveling pulsar yet discovered, scientists say. The small … Continue reading →

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NASA lands rover on Mars to seek signs of life

Posted on August 6, 2012 by The Great One

The United States of America, founded only 236 years ago, is successfully sending nuclear-powered robots to Mars; 570,000,000 kilometers (352,000,000 miles) from Earth, while other countries with a much, much longer history are still living in the Stone Age! This … Continue reading →

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Why Aren’t There Any Openly Gay Astronauts?

Posted on July 25, 2012 by The Great One

The question posed in the title of this article by the author really is dumb. I have a better question: why aren’t there any openly gay Catholic priests? How about this one: why aren’t there any openly gay football, baseball … Continue reading →

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Outing Sally Ride: Her sexual orientation has nothing to do with space ships

Posted on July 24, 2012 by The Great One

Evolution really and truly is amazing. It is such a powerful force, yet few people (since 95% of the population has an IQ in the primate range) never recognize it; much less think of its effect on us. We are … 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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Parts of Mars Interior as Wet as Earth’s

Posted on June 24, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com – Sat, Jun 23, 2012 The interior of Mars holds vast reservoirs of water, with some spots apparently as wet as Earth’s innards, scientists say. The finding upends … Continue reading →

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NASA Voyager 1 Spacecraft Nears Interstellar Space

Posted on June 19, 2012 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has encountered a new environment more than 11 billion miles from Earth, suggesting that the venerable probe is on the cusp of … Continue reading →

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Venus Crosses the Sun for Last Time Until 2117, Skywatchers Rejoice

Posted on June 7, 2012 by The Great One

How cool is this? The photograph shows the relative size of the Sun to Venus, and Earth, since both are approximately the same size. Now just consider for one moment that the Sun is a relatively small star when compared … Continue reading →

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Satellites Snap Solar Eclipse Pictures From Space

Posted on May 21, 2012 by The Great One

How cool is this? TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Space.com, staff | SPACE.com Spectators on Earth weren’t the only ones to spot an impressive solar eclipse Sunday (May 20). Two satellites managed to snap amazing images and … Continue reading →

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‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Eclipse Occurs May 20

Posted on May 15, 2012 by The Great One

For you sky-watchers out there… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Mike Wall | SPACE.com Skywatchers in East Asia and the western United States should circle Sunday (May 20) on their calendars. That’s when a solar eclipse will … Continue reading →

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‘Supermoon’ Tonight! Tips to See Year’s Biggest Full Moon, Meteor Shower

Posted on May 5, 2012 by The Great One

Our closest neighbor in space will be at its closest tonight. Hope you enjoy the view… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Tariq Malik | SPACE.com If the full moon looks a bit bigger and brighter in tonight’s … 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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Ex-NASA worker says fired over intelligent design

Posted on April 16, 2012 by The Great One

Religious indoctrination is so powerful that even well-educated individuals are unable to liberate themselves from its shackles. People are free to believe what they want to believe, and having views contrary to one’s colleagues at work is no reason for … 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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New App Brings Alien Planets Down to Earth

Posted on April 3, 2012 by The Great One

For all you techies out there… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff, Space.com | SPACE.com A new app brings thousands of alien worlds to the fingertips of iPhone and iPad users. The app, called Kepler Explorer, … Continue reading →

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April Fools’ Day Asteroid Zips Close by Earth

Posted on April 1, 2012 by The Great One

If a giant asteroid ever strikes Earth it will be curtains for the human race, at least for a very large percentage of the population. Should that happen, all the gods that man has invented and all the prayers prayed … Continue reading →

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Skydiver aims to jump from 23 miles, go supersonic

Posted on March 16, 2012 by The Great One

This dude will probably die from a fall in his bathtub; that’s just how life works it seems… Still, that doesn’t mean he isn’t a total whack-job. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By MARCIA DUNN | Associated … Continue reading →

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Suit: NASA specialist axed over intelligent design

Posted on March 11, 2012 by The Great One

As long as this individual was qualified to do his work, which apparently he was, who really cares what his views were in terms of evolution vs intelligent design. There is one caveat: if his views interfered with the scope … Continue reading →

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Biggest solar storm in years races toward Earth

Posted on March 8, 2012 by The Great One

Fascinating stuff from our “friend” in space; without it (the Sun) we wouldn’t be here… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By SETH BORENSTEIN | Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The largest solar storm in five years was … 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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Andromeda Galaxy’s Exotic X-Ray Signal Actually a Bright Black Hole

Posted on February 27, 2012 by The Great One

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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What the Republican Candidates Say About Moon Colonization

Posted on January 29, 2012 by The Great One

The Moon is where some of these Republican candidates’ heads (and ideas) are at… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Yahoo By Charles Joel | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Fri, Jan 27, 2012 A day before the most recent Republican debate in … Continue reading →

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Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth

Posted on January 24, 2012 by The Great One

Reading an article pertaining to the Sun reminds me of the story in the Bible, in the Book of Joshua, when God commanded the Sun to “stand still,” so that daylight lasted longer and a battle (one of the countless … Continue reading →

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Apocalypse Not Now: 2012 Doomsday Predictions Debunked by NASA

Posted on January 1, 2012 by The Great One

Dim-witted people continue to believe all kinds of superstitions regarding an apocalypse. It almost seems as if religious individuals (as most end-of-days believers are) actually want some cataclysmic event to occur. Sorry people, there is no evidence for any such … Continue reading →

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New views of giant asteroid Vesta revealed

Posted on December 5, 2011 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… It’s important to note that if as a result of some cosmic event one of these “monster” asteroids should ever lose its present orbit and strike Earth, that would be the end of the human race, as well … 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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NASA rover launched to seek out life clues on Mars

Posted on November 27, 2011 by The Great One

Too bad that those of us interested in science, particularly astronomy and space exploration, won’t be around a thousand years from now to witness the future. There is no doubt that we instinctively have a need to explore and conquer, … Continue reading →

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Victor J. Stenger: “Marooned on Spaceship Earth”

Posted on July 25, 2011 by The Great One

Life has yet to be found anywhere but on Earth. Over a hundred planets beyond our solar system have been identified, with more being found every day. None, so far, is suitable for life as we know it, although this … Continue reading →

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Comet’s Death by Sun Photographed for First Time

Posted on July 13, 2011 by The Great One

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Tariq Malik , SPACE.com Managing Editor Space.com | The death of a comet that plunged into the sun was captured on camera this month for the first time in history, … 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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Truck-Size Asteroid Zips Close by Earth

Posted on June 3, 2011 by The Great One

We humans waste our time with meaningless, nonsensical, supernatural minutia such as fighting over religious ideologies, saying prayer, Jesus, Muhammad, Heaven, Hell, the Rapture, etc., yet all it takes is for one BIG (random) space rock to strike Earth and … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Conspiracy Theories

Posted on April 23, 2011 by The Great One

I would definitely not categorize these conspiracies in the descending order given by the writer (from tenth to first). In my opinion, 9/11, the Kennedy assassination and the Roswell crash cover-up would have been the top 3 conspiracies; the order … Continue reading →

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No Sex in Space, Yet, Official Says

Posted on April 23, 2011 by The Great One

We humans really are obsessed with sex. Quite frankly, the thought of sex in space and whether or not it had ever been done never crossed my mind. If I had to guess, I would say that it hasn’t happened … Continue reading →

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Super-moon to rise on Saturday

Posted on March 19, 2011 by The Great One

Wow, this would certainly be an amazingly spectacular view to witness in person… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – An especially large moon will appear to rise on Saturday in the most extreme example of … Continue reading →

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Life Found in a Meteorite? Some Scientists Don’t Buy It

Posted on March 7, 2011 by The Great One

I am far more astonished, yes astonished, that certain scientists dispel the notion that there possibly could be life elsewhere in the universe than I am of the contrary. After all, the science of cosmology has proven that there are … Continue reading →

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Meteorite Clue Opens Window into Solar System Evolution

Posted on March 3, 2011 by The Great One

I find science fascinating. Science is basically a piecing together of knowledge of the physical world gained through observation and experimentation in order to reach verifiable conclusions. Of the many scientific fields, I find astronomy especially interesting as it helps … Continue reading →

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