That’s good to know 😉 Apparently astronomers have witnessed a fairly rare event. It is also not widely knows outside of the stargazing community that a star actually can escape from a black hole, sometimes. Black holes are still extremely mysterious so observing them can be challenging. Our models are getting more sophisticated but there…
Exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb Is Only 4 Light Years Away
(4 years of traveling at 186,000 miles per second) 😉 The focus on exoplanets has increased as one of the ways to search for other forms of life. And our closest neighbor star Alpha Centauri is only 4 light years away (3.9 to be exact). So, we have found an exoplanet in that star system…
Curvature Of Earth Seen On Super High Resolution In This Video
This is a stunning video of the curvature of Earth with city lights and aurorae visible. These pics were taken from the International Space Station. The skilled astronauts aboard were able to take these really incredible images. How long do you think they had to train physically for this mission? And one of the…
The “Alien Star” They Are Saying Is Now Just A Bunch Of Comets
Uhh…not sure just yet The internet has been buzzing over the “alien star” for the last month and no one knows what the structure is. Some of the more out there astronomers and space fans in general have speculated that it is some sort of dyson sphere made by extraterrestrials. Others are assuming it is…
Could “Starshades” Help Us Find Extraterrestrials?
This MIGHT work.. The techniques in the search for extraterrestrials is a hotly debated topic. There are all different methods in deployment and discussion. One of the newer techniques involves searching for stars exhibiting signs of magnetism supposidely from aliens. Other techniques from the past that they are restarting involve sendind and listening for radio…
Astronomers Want to Search For Alien Life Using Magnetism
Will this work? S.E.T.I. was the most famous organization to search for extraterrestrials and there may be something to this new method. The ever informative ‘SpaceRip” has done it again with a great video. Basically in the past S.E.T.I. would send out messages and try listen to messages by radio or light. However, this method…
The Search For An “Earth Twin” May Tell Us A Lot
Will they find one? The search for Earth-like planets has gotten a lot of attention lately. Kepler 452-b has been considered one of the most similar planets to our own ever discovered. Of course there are challenges in observing these phenomena in that stars can emit a lot of light, making them difficult to detect.…
NASA Filmed An Actual Dust Devil On Mars
You don’t see this everyday.. 2015 has been an incredible year for new information about the red planet. There has also been a lot of recent evidence abotu Mars’s very thin atmosphere as well as that of a much more dense atmosphere from the past. And not to mention, there have been some higher resolution…
They Found Some Of The Oldest Galaxies Ever Seen
Apparently they have discovered a horde of galaxies so old, they are telling us things about a very early time in space universe as we comprehend it. The ESO, like The Hubble is one of the most powerful telescopes in the world. Although there are new ones being built, it has captured some of the…
Where Are The Waves on The Moon Titan?
Titan is one of the larger moons in our solar system. And what is peculiar is the fact that astronomers have calculated or assumed at least to see a very different liquid formation on its surface compared to what we actually see. Apparently their models actually expect waves and they don’t see them. Do you…
Astronomers Literally See A Planet Forming
This is a first.. There has been a lot of talk about exoplanets lately. Many including kepler-452b and others have hogged the spotlight as astronomers consider them as possible habitats for extraterrestrial life. Even the SETI program is restarting. And now there is an exciting related development: For the first time, scientists have observed a…
Black Holes Are Elusive And This Explains Why
Do you know why? Most astronomers take the existence of black holes as a given. Although there are a few different types of debates in regards to their properties, most, but not all, do take them to be real. That being said, they can be a bit elusive in spotting. The reason is that you…
They Found A New “Planetary System” In Our Galaxy
First time they’ve seen one like this.. Just when astronomers really think they have figured things out, they find something completely unique. If you are familiar with brown dwarf stars or not, they pretty much straddle the line between planets and stars, at least in the way we are able to understand them. They are…
Exoplanet Kepler 452-B May Have An Inhabitable Surface..
The most “earth like” planet we’ve ever found. The search for extraterrestrials has spanned for many decades and centuries really. Some of the more relatively recent programs have been the S.E.T.I. program which sent and listened to and sent messages in hopes of contacting aliens. There has even been speculation of a message received from…
Pulsating Red Star Found In Galaxy 53 Million Light Years Away
its showing some UNUSUAL properties.. 2015 has been quite a year for astronomy. And now scientists have detected a red pulsar so bright it is actually detectable in a galaxy 53 million light years away. This was previously unconsidered to have any effect on the general brightness scale of a galaxy. But this one is…
Could Forms Of Life That We Don’t Understand Be On Mars Right Now?
What do you think? 2015 has been quite a year for astronomy and Mars in particular with some incredible new pics. And some of those have made quite a buzz on the web like the mysterious “face” and others. That being said, many have speculated that life may have existed on Mars in the past.…
New Theory That Black Holes Don’t Exist?
Is this Possible? Most astronomers and space fans alike have a fascination with black holes. They seem to defy the laws of the physics that we think we understand. However, there is a new theory that they potentially don’t exist. Wait…what? yes you read that correctly. Astrophysicists Laura Mersini-Houghton and Herald P. Pfeiffer have come…
Pluto May Have A Tail (And We’re Talking About The Planet) ;)
Apparently Pluto, the very distant planet in our solar system has somewhat of a tail. NASA discovered some very cold ionized gas over 50,000 miles behind the planet. Believe it or not it is actually considered to be part of it’s atmosphere: This giant tail is actually part of Pluto’s atmosphere. Except that the bits…
They Found The Furthest Thing Within the Solar System
Apparently they have just made an interesting discovery within our very own solar system. At the edge, they found the most distant object ever. The only thing further was the Pioneer and Voyager crafts and those don’t really count since they are man made. Do you have any idea what this thing could be? An…
“Arguably the Most Important Planet Ever Found Outside the Solar System”?
That is a bold statement. Astronomers and astronomy fans alike are going crazy over a new planetary discovery. Apparently this exoplanet is only 39 light years away and is being called GJ 1132b. It is close enough to study in much further detail and they are saying it is extremely similar to Venus. (Note the pic…
