Replacing Our Moon With Planets – Video
February 12, 2012 in Astronomy, Space, Video
Ever wonder what it would look like if Jupiter or other planets in our solar system were in our moons orbit? Wonder no more. You might also like: [...]
February 12, 2012 in Astronomy, Space, Video
Ever wonder what it would look like if Jupiter or other planets in our solar system were in our moons orbit? Wonder no more. You might also like: [...]
January 27, 2012 in Astronomy, Featured, Space
A small asteroid will make an extremely close pass by Earth Friday, Jan. 27, coming much nearer than the moon — but the space rock poses no danger of impacting [...]
January 16, 2012 in Astronomy, Featured, News, Space
A new telescope array could allow scientists to photograph a black hole for the first time – teaming up 50 radio telescopes around the world into a global telescope that [...]
January 12, 2012 in Astronomy, Featured, News, Space
An international team of astronomers have reached the most definitive conclusion, one with profound implications: our galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets. Of those, most are small planets [...]
January 10, 2012 in Astronomy, NASA, News, Space
In a random sky survey made in near-infrared light, Hubble found five tiny galaxies clustered together 13.1 billion light-years away. They are among the brightest galaxies at that epoch and [...]
January 9, 2012 in Astronomy, Featured, News, Space
I recently came across an old copy of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, and its famous opening line — “It was the best of times, it was the [...]
January 9, 2012 in Astronomy, Featured, NASA, Space
International astronomers said Monday they have created the largest map of dark matter ever observed in the universe, using data from potent telescopes that scanned 10 million galaxies. The mysterious [...]
December 19, 2011 in Astronomy, News, Science
NASA’s Kepler telescope has now identified an insane 2,326 possible exoplanets. What’s particularly shocking is how many of these planets are giant rocky planets known as Super-Earths, which defies everything [...]