Last week, the science world was abuzz with the news that gravitational waves had been discovered thanks to the LIGO project and the team of international scientists that made it…
Category: Astronomy
A triumph of science: first detection of the gravitational wave
Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein’s prediction – video folows American University contributes to noise-reduction technology in LIGO detectors From AMERICAN UNIVERSITY For the first time, scientists have observed…
New insights into the solar magnetic dynamo
From NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER NASA: Understanding the magnetic sun The surface of the sun writhes and dances. Far from the still, whitish-yellow disk it appears to be from the…
Mysterious radio signals from space are much better test of Einstein's General Relativity
A new way to test one of the basic principles underlying Einstein’s theory of General Relativity using brief blasts of rare radio signals from space called Fast Radio Bursts is…
City busting Earth Grazer Asteroid imminent near miss – just discovered 2 weeks ago
From the “bigger worries than global warming” department: Guest essay by Eric Worrall Yet another indication that Asteroids are a far more serious threat than climate change. NASA scientists have…
A curiosity in space: a "Blue Marble" look-alike
From the “watch the skies” department, and ESO, comes this “Blue Marble” look-alike, hence the name, The Planetary Nebula:. The ghost of a dying star This extraordinary bubble, glowing like the…
Finding: Buckminsterfullerenes are absorbing starlight
Old astronomic riddle on the way to be solved From the University of Basel Scientists at the University of Basel were able to identify for the first time a molecule…
Neat video: Total Solar Eclipse In 30 Seconds Seen From From a Plane
This is neat. The Total Solar Eclipse In 30 Seconds Seen From From a Plane Over The Faroe Islands, a perspective few will see. Video follows Here is another view…
No joke: 'Climate change may prevent contact with alien civilisations'
From the you’ve got to be effing kidding me department come this dead serious essay from “The Conversation”, that hotbed of climate alarmism in Australia which somehow got past bullshit…
When worlds collide – study says our moon was formed by a collision with planet-sized body
From the European Association of Geochemistry New isotopic evidence supporting moon formation via Earth collision with planet-sized body A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that…
'Settled science' – paper claims the Universe is static, not expanding
New evidence, based on detailed measurements of the size and brightness of hundreds of galaxies, using The Tolman test for surface brightness, indicates that the Universe is not expanding after…
Somehow, I'm sure somebody will figure out a way to blame 'climate change' for this
From the European Space Agency: Jupiter’s trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling storm feature larger than Earth — is shrinking. This downsizing, which is changing the shape of the…
Finding ET: 'worse than we thought'
From the University of Toronto: Search for life on exoplanets more difficult than thought A new study from the University of Toronto Scarborough suggests the search for life on planets…
The International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3) Reboot Project, Bringing an Old Bird Back to the Earth, and Back to Life
Citizen backed space science attempts to do the near impossible Guest essay by Dennis Wingo Life isn’t fair. So many times in my life I start to do something and…
Faint whispers of the early universe detected, bolsters the cosmic inflation theory, aka 'big bang'
“This has been like looking for a needle in a haystack, but instead we found a crowbar…” From the Stanford Report, March 17, 2014 (h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard) video…
Stunning photo: Earth, as seen from Mars
This was just released today by NASA. It is quite a humbling image from the Mars rover Curiosity, though it’s not quite the same impact as the Blue Marble image…
Asteroid Diversity Points to a 'Snow Globe' Solar System
As of today, there are currently 1453 known potentially hazardous asteroids that could impact Earth and cause a real planetary catastrophe. Given the new diverse “snow globe” model of our…
AGU Fall meeting: The Chelyabinsk, Russia, meteor
The Russian Chelyabinsk Meteor was the largest since the 1908 Tunguska event. The airburst from the meteor on February 15, 2013, injured more than a thousand people and damaged thousands of buildings.…
From AGU: comet ISON's struggle of Fire and Ice
San Francisco – After a year of observations, scientists waited with bated breath on Nov. 28, 2013, as Comet ISON made its closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion.…
Comet ISON appears to be toast – goes "poof" in video, then comes back to life
Note: See updates below for the ISON ISOFF ISON nature of this comet that has everybody guessing. Picture at right also updated to reflect the new “zombie” status of this…
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