Where is the center of the universe?
Posted by admin in Science, Space on 23. Apr, 2012 | 0 Comments
First, it’s important to know that the big bang wasn’t an explosion of matter into empty space—it was the rapid expansion of space itself. This means that every single point in the universe appears to be at the center. Think of the universe as an empty balloon with dots on it. Those dots represent clusters [...]
New report urges extreme caution against infection when landing on alien worlds
Posted by admin in Science, Space on 23. Apr, 2012 | 0 Comments
As Earth humans begin to seriously consider sending missions to icy worlds like Europa and Enceladus, one of the necessary concerns has to be protection of the environment where such a mission would land. It would be a shame to arrive on a fascinating alien world only to immediately seed it with Earth microbes, carelessly [...]
Massive solar eruption expels a beautiful prominence
Posted by admin in Space on 18. Apr, 2012 | 0 Comments
Yesterday–at least in the northeast U.S.–was a picture-perfect, sun-shiney day. But as many of us took a few extra minutes at lunch to soak up one of the first nice spring days of the season, the sun overhead was in the midst of some serious violence. At roughly 1:45 p.m. EDT yesterday, a huge and [...]
Flying faster than the speed of light could create deadly explosions on arrival
Posted by admin in Science, Space on 14. Mar, 2012 | 0 Comments
Imagine: you’ve traveled all the way across the galaxy to some faraway, potentially life-embracing planet orbiting a faraway star, only to obliterate your destination upon arrival. It’s a very real threat according to few physicists at the University of Sydney. It turns out that a spacecraft emerging from a so-called Alcubierre warp drive does so [...]
Galaxy may be full of wandering hobo planets
Posted by admin in Space on 27. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
Over at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), which is associated with Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a new study indicates that not only are there many so-called "nomad planets" in our galaxy, but that there may be tens of thousands of them, drifting through the Milky Way unattached [...]
