Image of the Day: Beauty or Beast?
 . Located at a distance of about 45 million light-years in the southern constellation Fornax (the Furnace), NGC 1097 is a relatively bright, barred spiral galaxy seen face-on....
Supermassive Black Holes Discovered to Play a Critical Role in the Evolution of Galaxies
Do black holes hold the key that could unlock the secrets of our patch of the universe? Some of the world’s leading physicists...
"Smart Dust" -From SciFi to Reality: The Coming Era of Sensor Computing
“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.” Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize...
The Cygnus Bubble – Natural or Artificial?
Is the solar-system sized bubble in the Consellation Cygnus a planetary nebulae or could it be an “AC” or astroengineering construction, also known...
Will Orbiting Space Colonies Trump Planets? (A Galaxy Classic)
Expanding into space has been a dream of scifi since before the genre had a name.  Adventure, overcrowding, the chance of tall blue-skinned women – the...

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