Space Mysteries: If we can find the answer, it may complete our understanding of space and time… As humans, we know we are conscious because we experience and feel things. Yet scientists and great thinkers are unable to explain what consciousness is and they are equally baffled about where it comes from. “Consciousness — or […]
Read More Can our brains help prove the universe is conscious? | SpaceSupermassive black holes will merge less than 17 million years after galaxy merger The Milky Way galaxy will merge with neighboring Andromeda (pictured) about 10 billion years from now — a bit later than previously estimated. More about this article in the link below… https://www.sciencenews.org/article/andromeda-milky-way-galaxy-black-hole-collision-simulation/amp
Read More How the Milky Way–Andromeda black hole merger may play out | Science NewsNGC 2336 is the quintessential galaxy — big, beautiful and blue — and it is captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The barred spiral galaxy stretches an immense 200,000 light-years across and is located approximately 100 million light years away in the northern constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe). Its spiral arms are glittered […]
Read More Big, Beautiful and Blue: Hubble Captures Immense Galaxy That Stretches 200,000 Light-Years AcrossPublished on Feb 2, 2021What are some skywatching highlights in February 2021? Find Mars all month after sunset, especially on the night of NASA’s planned rover landing, Feb. 18. Then watch the Moon glide across the Winter Circle before it pays a visit to the bright stars of the constellation Gemini. Additional information about topics […]
Read More Watch “What’s Up: February 2021 Skywatching Tips from NASA” on YouTubeIn 2013, the European Space Agency (ESA) deployed the Gaia mission to space, a next-generation observatory that will spend the next five years gathering data on the positions, distances, and proper motions of stars. The resulting data will be used to construct the largest 3D space catalog ever, totaling 1 billion stars, planets, comets, asteroids, […]
Read More This is Not a Photo of the Milky Way. It’s the Map of 1.8 Billion Stars From Gaia’s Major New Data Release | Universe Today“Earth’s night sky as Milky Way and Andromeda merge | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSky” https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earths-night-sky-milky-way-andromeda-merge
Read More Earth’s night sky as Milky Way and Andromeda merge | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSkyMost FRBs originate hundreds of millions of light-years away. This one came from inside the Milky Way… More about this in the link below… https://www.livescience.com/fast-radio-burst-magnetar-milky-way.html
Read More Mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ detected closer to Earth than ever before | Live ScienceA long-awaited map of the Big Bang’s afterglow fails to settle a debate over how fast the Universe is expanding… https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02126-6
Read More Mystery over Universe’s expansion deepens with fresh dataAstronomers have come across a monstrously large black hole with a gargantuan appetite. Each passing day, the insatiable void known as J2157 consumes gas and dust equivalent in mass to the sun, making it the fastest-growing black hole in the universe. The sheer scale of J2157 is almost unfathomable, but we can try pinning some […]
Read More Fastest-growing black hole in the universe eats the equivalent of one sun per day
