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Everything Else, Science April 7, 2021April 7, 2021

China’s Tianwen-1 Spacecraft Captures Stunning Crescent Mars Photos

Very cool photos…have a look… https://www.livescience.com/crescent-mars-china-tianwen-1-photos.html China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft has captured stunning images of Mars as a bright red sunlit crescent in deep space. The photographs were separately taken over the northern […] Read More

Everything Else, Science April 5, 2021April 5, 2021

Decades of Hunting Detects Footprint of Cosmic Ray Superaccelerators in our Galaxy

Some fascinating revelations in recent cosmological study… https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/aps-doh033121.php An enormous telescope complex in Tibet has captured the first evidence of ultrahigh-energy gamma rays spread across the Milky Way. The findings […] Read More

Everything Else, Education, Science March 20, 2021March 20, 2021

A supermassive black hole is speeding through space, and astronomers don’t know why

Still one of the greatest mysteries for us… https://www.livescience.com/moving-supermassive-black-hole.html By Ben Turner – Staff Writer for LiveScience A supermassive black hole is racing across the universe at 110,000 mph (177,000 km/h), and the astronomers […] Read More

Everything Else, Science March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

Newfound Super-Earth Alien Planet Whips Around Its Star Every 0.67 Days

Remember the period it takes us to go around the sun is our year…imagine doing that every 2/3 of a day…shoot, I’d be 50,000 years old by now… https://www.livescience.com/super-earth-alien-planet-toi-1685b.html By […] Read More

Everything Else, Science March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

26 Cosmic Photos from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Ultra Deep Field

Pretty amazing stuff…really, really humbles you…we are all living on a tiny dust speck orbiting a very average star, one of a hundred billion in our galaxy, and yet there […] Read More

Education, Science February 24, 2021February 24, 2021

Astronomers Find the Fastest Spinning Black Hole to Date

https://www.livescience.com/first-black-hole-detected-fastest-spinning.html By Tim Childers – Live Science Contributor Six decades after its discovery, the first black hole ever detected is still causing astronomers to scratch their heads. It turns out that the cosmic […] Read More

General Commentary, Everything Else, Science February 19, 2021February 19, 2021

The Latest About Planet 9

https://www.livescience.com/planet-9-doubts.html By Rafi Letzter – Staff Writer for livescience.com Does the solar system have a big, dark ninth planet drifting somewhere far beyond the orbit of Neptune? Since 2016, many astronomers have said it’s possible, […] Read More

General Commentary, Science February 18, 2021February 18, 2021