EARTH — NASA has discovered the first habitable planet: Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets […]
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Big Bang Heard
Scientists in the USA believe they have discovered echoes from the Big Bang! A specialized telescope (called Bicep — Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) that is located at the South Pole has detected “primordial gravitational waves.” “In physics, gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of space/time that propagate as a wave, traveling outward […]
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Tagged Big Bang, birth of the universe, cosmology, gravitational waves, primordial gravitational waves
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Fatwa Against Going to Mars
Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against going to Mars. A fatwā is part of the Islamic faith and is the term for the legal judgment pertaining to the Islamic law. The ruling was made after several names of known Muslims appeared on a list of people scheduled to go to Mars in 2024. According to […]
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Tagged fighting, God, Mars, religous war
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Star Explosion
A supernova was discovered in the night sky of London on January 23, 2014. NASA says, “A supernova is the explosion of a star. It is the largest explosion that takes place in space.” The explosion was first discovered by students and their teacher Steve Fossey at the University College London. “It was a surreal […]
Wake Up In Space
A spaceship launched 10 years ago is approaching its target — a comet. A landing unit will harpoon itself to the surface. Comets are among the most beautiful and least understood nomads of the night sky. To date, half a dozen of these most heavenly of heavenly bodies have been visited by spacecraft in an […]
Interstellar Overdrive
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas, present in the space between stars. Voyager […]
3rd World Countries from the Third Planet
EARTH — The space race continues. Iran claims to have successfully sent its second monkey into space. “In total, this is the 2nd monkey sent into space and returned in perfect health to Iran. I congratulate the Leader, scientists and the nation,” said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. At the same time, China became the third […]
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Comet ISON
NASA — Did comet Ison survive its trip around the sun? After several days of continued observations, scientists continue to work to determine and to understand the fate of Comet ISON: There’s no doubt that the comet shrank in size considerably as it rounded the sun and there’s no doubt that something made it out […]
Galaxy Growth Like Watching Paint Dry
NASA — Watching a tree grow might be more frustrating than waiting for a pot to boil, but luckily for biologists, there are tree rings. Beginning at a tree trunk’s dense core and moving out to the soft bark, the passage of time is marked by concentric rings, revealing chapters of the tree’s history. Galaxies […]
Russian Meteor Plume
Atmospheric physicist Nick Gorkavyi missed witnessing an event of the century last winter when a meteor exploded over his hometown of Chelyabinsk, Russia. From Greenbelt, Md., however, NASA’s Gorkavyi and colleagues witnessed the atmospheric aftermath. The explosion created a never-before-seen belt of “meteor dust” that circulated through the stratosphere for at least three months. Shortly […]