Fox Newsadded this to Top StoriesJellyfish NASA spots mysterious galactic 'jellyfish' in spaceFox News - Chris CiacciaJellyfish have been on Earth for approximately 500 million years, making them the longest surviving creature on the planet. But now, NASA has a "jellyfish" of its own in space. The government space agency
Professor Scienceadded this to The Professor Is InBlack Holes Gravitational forces at heart of Milky Way shaped this star cluster like a cometDigital Trends This week’s Hubble Picture of the Week is a view of the stunning and unusual Messier 62 cluster in the constellation of Ophiuchus. A globular cluster …
Hubble Space Telescope Crowded clusterspacetelescope.org - information@eso.org This sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a globular cluster: a spherical collection of stars bound together by gravity. Clusters like this …
Zachzilla23added this to The TruthUniverse Mind-Boggling Image Shows How Far Into Space Humanity's Voice Has Actually ReachedScienceAlert - MICHELLE STARR It's the big mystery: Intelligent life should be out there in the Universe, so why haven't we found any evidence for it? This question is called the …
Jayadded this to This WorldScience This Is What Would Happen if the Sun Suddenly ExplodedInverse - By Christopher Manser, The Conversation Earth would be in big trouble. Filed Under Milky Way & Planets “What would happen if the sun exploded?” – Lizey, aged 12, Australia. The sun is a star, …
NDadded this to DEPTH OF FIELDSpace This Jaw-Dropping Galaxy Photo Equates to 1,060 Hours of Non-Stop StargazingScienceAlert - PETER DOCKRILL There's a trick to night-time photography: longer exposures. They soak up more light, making everything pop brilliantly in your shot, provided your …
Professor Futon Spooninadded this to These Are A Few Of Our Favorite ThingsProxima Centauri 25 Bizarre Things You Can Only Find In Outer Spacefloridatime.org - By floridatime Although the universe has literally fascinated us for millennia, we still understand just a tiny part of it. In fact, the mere conception of the …
archwizardadded this to Science FractionsScience 30 Craziest Scientific Discoveries of Our Lifetimefinefinders.org We usually think of scientific discoveries as breakthroughs of the distant past—Isaac Newton’s law of universal gravitation, or Charles Darwin …
CNNadded this to Top StoriesCNN When to look up for the Lyrid meteor showerCNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — The annual Lyrid meteor shower will peak on Tuesday morning, but keep your eyes on the sky over the weekend as well. There hasn't been a meteor shower to light up the sky since early January, this
JJoeadded this to good..bad...and ugly...Galaxies Our Sun Came Late to the Milky Way's Star-Birth Partyhubblesite.org In one of the most comprehensive multi-observatory galaxy surveys yet, astronomers find that galaxies like our Milky Way underwent a stellar "baby …
ALena.kadded this to NASA, Space & Earth's CoreAstrophysics The Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Is a Hot Spot for Astrophysicsfloridatime.org - By floridatime The discovery of wobbling “hotspots” circling the drain of a massive black hole offers exciting new evidence for the behemoth that lies at our …
Meteor Showers When you can watch the Lyrid meteor shower shoot across our skieslincolnshirelive.co.uk - Danielle HoeTrainee Reporter Stargazers across Lincolnshire will be in for a treat over the next week as the annual Lyrid meteor shower is nearing its peak. The Lyrids are …
Professor Futon Spooninadded this to These Are A Few Of Our Favorite ThingsHubble Space Telescope The Crab of the Southern Skyspacetelescope.org
Shane Leschasinadded this to esotericaBlack Holes Physicists Closer to Solving Mystery of Weird Glowing Ring Around Milky Way's Black HoleLive Science - Rafi Letzter DENVER — Astronomers watched a high-speed gas cloud slam into the matter getting sucked toward Sagittarius A* — the supermassive black hole at the …
TPFadded this to 🗞BREAKING & NOTABLE WORLD NEWS... & STORIES WHICH YOU MAY HAVE MISSEDBlack Holes A City-Sized Star Is Blocking the View of Our Galaxy’s Black Holefuturism.com - Dan Robitzski Down In Front When scientists released the first-ever image of a black hole last week, people immediately began asking why astronomers chose to focus …
Jackie Seaquistadded this to Cosmic SoupSpiral Galaxies 2019 April 18 - The Leo Trionasa.gov - Robert Nemiroff & Jerry Bonnell The Leo Trio Image Credit & Copyright: Markus Bauer Explanation: This group is popular in the northern spring. Famous as the Leo Triplet, the three …
Travis Sky Ingersolladded this to To Boldly Go...Astronomy Astronomy Live: Gaia and the Milky Wayamnh.org The Gaia space telescope recently released its second catalog of over 1.3 billion stellar distances, which is helping astronomers visualize the …
Exoplanets Jumbo exoplanet discovered in double system with a dead starearthsky.org - By Eleanor Imster The giant exoplanet – 13 times more massive than Jupiter – is the first yet found that orbits a binary star system in which 1 of the 2 stars is …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoEarth Object from outside our solar system ‘hit Earth five years ago’, scientists believeyahoo.com - Rob Waugh A visitor to our solar system became the subject of headlines around the world last year after the cigar-shaped rock now named `Oumuamua flew past …
Galaxies M87 with its black heart is part of spring’s galaxieswiscnews.com - KELLY KIZER WHITT Columnist With recent news of the first-ever image of a black hole, let’s take a look at M87 and do some spring galaxy observing. Spring is the best season to …
Professor Futon Spooninadded this to These Are A Few Of Our Favorite ThingsEarth A meteor that came from another solar system may have hit Earth in 2014MIT Technology Review - Erin Winick By searching NASA’s Near Earth Object Database, researchers found a meteor that burned up in Earth’s atmosphere five years ago in the sky over the …
Professor Futon Spooninadded this to These Are A Few Of Our Favorite ThingsUniverse Where Are We in the Universe? A Brief Tour of Our Cosmic Addressdossess.com Today, I’m going to explore our place in the universe by defining our cosmic address and demonstrating just how insignificant we are in the greater …
Fox Newsadded this to Top StoriesScience Mysterious interstellar meteor may have slammed into Earth in 2014Fox News - Chris CiacciaOumuamua, the first interstellar object detected, has made headlines since it was discovered in 2017. Since then, researchers have theorized what it could be, with some suggesting it could be a light from
Jackie Seaquistadded this to Soul CandyGalaxies 2019 April 17 - Messier 81nasa.gov - Robert Nemiroff & Jerry Bonnell Messier 81 Image Credit & Copyright: Paolo De Salvatore (Zenit Observatory) Explanation: One of the brightest galaxies in planet Earth's sky is similar …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHubble Space Telescope Image - Nebula N81 in the Small Magellanic Cloudhubblesite.org About this image NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has peered deep into a neighboring galaxy to reveal details of the formation of new stars. Hubble's …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoScience The place where stars are formedcosmosmagazine.com Researchers gain first image of a distant but important part of the Milky Way.
PureWowadded this to TravelTravel What Is Astrotourism?PureWow - Sarah Stiefvater Some people travel for Michelin-star restaurants. Other people travel to see where their ancestors lived. Yet another group travels for the stars. …
The EconomistRadiation Do tapirs defecate in the woods?The Economist Staring into the abyss Astronomers take the first picture of a black hole Using a string of radio telescopes around Earth WHAT BLACK HOLES do to the …
PBS NewsHouradded this to NationBlack Holes What the first photograph of a black hole can reveal about spacepbs.org Judy Woodruff: Unlikely as it sounds, we now have an image of that invisible space anomaly, a black hole, a cosmic abyss with gravity of such …
