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Artistic rendering of a flaring supermassive black hole 3.7 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion, which is the suspected source of a super-high-energy subatomic particle, a neutrino, that has launched a new era of space research. (Nate Follmer, Penn State)

Scientists: It’s New Era In Space Research

July 13, 2018

Members of the science community are proclaiming a new era in space research after discovering the first verified source of a super-energetic subatomic particle called a high-energy neutrino. Researchers from the Pennsylvania State University say that these neutrinos contain energies that are thousands to millions of times greater than those generated by particle colliders/accelerators such […]

Artist impression of the 14 galaxies hdetected by ALMA as they appear in the very early, very distant universe. These galaxies are in the process of merging and will eventually form the core of a massive galaxy cluster. (NRAO/AUI/NSF; S. Dagnello)

Galaxy Megamergers 1.4 – 1.5 Billion Years after the Big Bang

April 26, 2018

Two teams of astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), in Chile, to observe dense concentrations of so-called “starburst” galaxies. With these galaxies packing together so closely, the scientific teams realized that they were getting ready to violently collide and merge with each other, which would eventually […]

This is how the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, looked on 8/27/13, from New Zealand in the Southern Hemisphere. (Dave Young/Creative Commons, Attribution 2.0 Generic via Flickr)

Astronomers Search for the Sun’s Long-Lost Solar Siblings

April 20, 2018

While a family reunion is highly unlikely, Australian and European astronomers are still trying to find our Sun’s long-lost solar siblings which are now scattered throughout the sky. To do so, the scientists examined the of some 350,000 stars in the Milky Way – as though they were mapping each star’s DNA. The sun was […]

Artist’s impression of Oumuamua, the first visitor to our solar system from interstellar space. (ESO/M. Kornmessar via Wikimedia Commons)

Radio Telescope Finds No Signs of Alien Life in Interstellar Object

April 12, 2018

Soon after the October 2017 discovery of Oumuamua, the first confirmed interstellar object to visit our solar system, rumors and conspiracy theories began popping up all over the Internet. Because of its suspected origins, as well as its odd, flat, cigar-shaped appearance, word started to spread that the object was actually an alien interstellar space […]

This is a galaxy that's been catalogued as NGC 1052-DF2. Astronomers call it the "see-through" galaxy since you can see right through it and observe other and more distant galaxies behind it. Researchers have found that the galaxy is missing most, if not all, of its dark matter. (NASA, ESA, and P. van Dokkum (Yale University))

A Galaxy is Missing Its Dark Matter

April 2, 2018

Scientists say that the invisible and mysterious dark matter makes up about 27% of all material in the universe. Regular or normal matter that you see and touch every day takes up 5% and the remaining 68% comes from an enigmatic form of energy called dark energy. According to NASA, dark matter serves as a type of […]

Artist’s impression of Oumuamua, the first visitor to our solar system from interstellar space. (ESO/M. Kornmessar via Wikimedia Commons)

First Interstellar Visitor Probably Came From Binary Star System

March 21, 2018

Canadian astronomers think that the first confirmed interstellar object to enter our solar system, a rocky, cigar-shaped asteroid called ‘Oumuamua, probably came from a binary star system. To make their findings, the researchers at the University of Toronto’s Center for Planetary Science checked into just how effective twin star systems are at ejecting objects like […]

Image of the gravitational lens RX J1131-1231 galaxy with the lens galaxy at the center and four lensed background quasars. University of Oklahoma research estimate that there are trillions of planets in the center elliptical galaxy in this image. (University of Oklahoma)

First Extragalactic Planets Found

February 6, 2018

No doubt you’ve heard about extrasolar or exoplanets; planets that were discovered orbiting a star outside of our own solar system. Nearly 3,000 of these planets have been confirmed so far, with many more candidate planets waiting to be verified. However, these planets have all been discovered within our own Milky Way galaxy. An astrophysics […]

This sketch illustrates a family tree of exoplanets. Planets are born out of swirling disks of gas and dust called protoplanetary disks. (NASA/Kepler/Caltech (T. Pyle))

Kepler Discovers More Exoplanets / Scientists Classify Types of Planets

June 22, 2017

NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler mission recently released what it calls the most comprehensive and detailed catalog of candidate exoplanets. Exoplanets or extrasolar planets are planetary bodies that exist outside of our solar system. The new and final Kepler catalog from data gathered from the spacecraft’s initial patch of sky view within the Cygnus constellation includes 219 […]

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#1 Cause of Death; More Sleep=Less Pain?; Look Younger – Don’t Smile

May 17, 2017

Cardiovascular Disease #1 Cause of World’s Deaths  A new 25 year global study suggests cardiovascular diseases is now the cause of one third of all deaths throughout the world. The study reports that in 2015 nearly 18 million people worldwide died from this family of illnesses, which includes heart attack, congestive heart failure, coronary artery […]

This artist’s concept depicts the early Martian environment (right) – believed to contain liquid water and a thicker atmosphere – versus the cold, dry environment seen at Mars today (left). (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

New Horizons Journey; Wrong Way Asteroid; Ring Around Mars?

April 4, 2017

New Horizons Halfway to Next Flyby Destination NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provided scientists an amazing once in a lifetime look at the distant dwarf planet Pluto as it flew by it in July 2015. Along with spectacular images of Pluto the spacecraft also sent back those of Pluto’s five moons including high definition shots of […]

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