Posted by Tom McFay in Alien Activity on 02 5th, 2010 | No Comments
Image of the Day: Mysterious Helix Heads – Each Twice the Size of Our Solar System
The Hubble Space Telescope captured thousands of spellbinding gaseous knots from a doomed star in the Helix nebula, the closest planetary nebula to Earth at 450 light-years away in the...
Image of the Day: Mystical Beauty of Star Birth
The awesome beauty of the Cocoon Nebula shown here, IC 5146, is the H II region located about 4,000 light years away toward the constellation of Cygnus. The ‘II’...
The Day Earth Survived Its Greatest Stellar Attack -Ever (A Weekend Classic)
It came suddenly from the distant reaches of the Constellation Sagittarius, some 50,000 light years away. For a brief instant, a couple of tenths of a second, on December...
Posted by Tom McFay in Astronomy on 01 24th, 2010 | No Comments
A Cure for the Common Cold? Geneticists Close to Cracking Code
“We still can’t cure the common cold”, the rallying cry of anyone trying to belittle progress. You’ll notice that these...
Do the Outer Planets Have Vast Oceans of Liquid Diamond?
A little over two years ago, like an episode out of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced the...
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