From news reports. The world-famous physicist, who died last Wednesday aged 76, was a co-author to a mathematical paper in which he sought to prove the so-called “multiverse” theory, according…
Category: Astronomy
Weird: Some black holes erase your past
From the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – BERKELEY Einstein’s equations allow a non-determinist future inside some black holes In the real world, your past uniquely determines your future. If a physicist…
‘Super Blue Blood Moon’ Lunar eclipse to dazzle the USA on Jan. 31
If you live in the western part of North America, Alaska, and the Hawaiian islands, you might set your alarm early the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 31 for a lunar…
NASA: Massive Asteroid will zoom near Earth on February 4th – at 76,000 mph
Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to Earth on Feb. 4, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EST / 21:30 UTC). It is expected to be the…
Baby It’s Cold Outside – evidence of solar cycle affecting Earth’s cloud cover
Guest essay by David Archibald News comes that the light reflected back from Uranus is affected by the solar cycle. “The atmosphere around Uranus is one of the coldest in the solar…
Science’s 2017 Breakthrough of the Year: The observation of two neutron stars merging
From the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Science has chosen as its 2017 Breakthrough of the Year the first observations of a neutron-star merger, a violent celestial event that transfixed…
Hubble’s Messier celestial snow globe
From the NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER It’s beginning to look a lot like the holiday season in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a blizzard of stars, which resembles…
What we learned from the eclipse at #AGU17
On Dec. 11, 2017, at AGU 2017, six researchers discussed initial findings based on observations of the Sun and on Earth gathered during the solar eclipse that stretched across North…
‘Supermoon’ this weekend will be biggest full moon of the year
The biggest and brightest full Moon of 2017 is coming this weekend, on Sunday night, Dec. 3rd. It’s a perigee “supermoon,” almost 8% wider and 16% brighter than an average full…
Dark matter and dark energy: Do they really exist?
From the University of Geneva and the “soon we’ll have ‘dark climate’ as a way of explaining the pause” department comes this bit of science which is fascinating, but like…
‘Oddball’ cigar-shaped interstellar asteroid visits our solar system
First known interstellar visitor is an ‘oddball’, with a very odd and highly unusual aspect ratio. From the ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY (AURA) In October astronomers were surprised by…
Science suggests the universe has a ‘computational power’
What is the computational power of the universe? What if we consider the cosmos to be the output of a 13.7-billion-year computation? Can a close look at the universe give us…
Exploding Meteor lights up the Arctic
Video follows. On the evening of Nov. 16th, aurora tour guide Tony Bateman of northern Finland was indoors, warming up between auroras, when his surroundings began to vibrate. “There was a huge…
Spectacular Venus-Jupiter conjunction just before sunrise Monday
Set your alarm for before 45 minutes before dawn local time. On Monday morning, Nov. 13th, Venus and Jupiter will converge in the pre-dawn sky only 1/3rd of a degree…
Astronomers find a ‘Zombie’ star that lived and died – twice
Star exploded, survived, and exploded again more than 50 years later Carnegie’s instrumentation specialist key to ‘zombie star’ discovery Pasadena, CA– It’s the celestial equivalent of a horror movie villain–a…
Astronomers discover planet with scorching snow
Some real science from Penn State: Astronomers discover sunscreen snow falling on hot exoplanet Astronomers at Penn State have used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a blistering-hot giant planet…
NASA discovers ancient ocean on Asteroid Ceres
Via the AGU: WASHINGTON D.C. — Minerals containing water are widespread on Ceres, suggesting the dwarf planet may have had a global ocean in the past. What became of that…
Our dizzy Universe: Hubble discovers ‘wobbling galaxies’
From the ESA/HUBBLE INFORMATION CENTRE Hubble discovers ‘wobbling galaxies’ Observations may hint at nature of dark matter Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that the brightest galaxies within…
Astronomers: 'death star' has devoured 15 Earth sized worlds
From PRINCETON UNIVERSITY and the “That’s no moon…” department: Devourer of planets? Princeton researchers dub star ‘Kronos’ Sun-like star Kronos shows signs of having ingested 15 Earth masses worth of rocky…
Asteroid to buzz Earth this week
Four years ago, a house-sized asteroid tore through the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and exploded. Shock waves shattered windows and knocked down onlookers as fragments of the disintegrating space rock…
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