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Billions of habitable planets, right in our galaxy

(This artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667... more

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Evolution Under a Temperamental Sun

Philadelphia Inquirer... . Monday, March 19, 2012 Evolution Under a... more

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Odd Blue Star Found in Milky Way's Central Bulge (Which Stopped Making Stars Billions of Years Ago)

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball stars called blue... more

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A Globular Cluster 'Cosmopolis' Found Orbiting the Milky Way

This stunning new image of Messier 107 -- one of 150 globular clusters that orbit the... more

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The Universe Reveals Milky Way's Twin

Astronomers concluded that the center of the specatacular spiral galaxy, NGC 253, the... more

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Strange Universe Shows’Light Bent’. « Ramanan50's Blog

For Stranger Facts on Time read my blog on Time-Non -Linear theory... more

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Space Oddity

In this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, an unusual, ghostly green blob of... more

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NASA's Voyager near Solar System's edge

NASA's Voyager 1 probe is nearing the edge of our solar system after 33 years and nearly 11 billion miles of spaceflight.The spacecraft may make the final crossing into interstellar space in just four more years, NASA announced yesterday.The Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a region of space in the outer solar system where the speed of solar wind – charged particles streaming from the sun – is effectively zero. NASA scientists think the steep drop in solar wind speed is a sign that it has been blown sideways by a more powerful interstellar wind that blows in the spaces between stars."The solar wind has turned the corner," said Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif, "Voyager 1 is getting close to interstellar space."Voyager 1 has traveled about 10.8 billion miles (17.4 billion kilometers) from the sun since it launched on Sept. 5, 1977 on a mission to swing by the gas giant planets of Jupiter and Saturn.But Voyager 1 did not stop there. It continued on its way and in 2004 crossed a solar system boundary known as the termination shock – the border at which the sun's supersonic solar wind crosses a shockwave, slows down and heats up.The region immediately beyond the termination shock, where Voyager 1 is now, is called the heliosheath. The edge of the solar system is a cosmic border known as the heliopause. The heliosheath forms a turbulent outer shell of the sun's cosmic reach, which scientists call its "sphere of influence." Once Voyager 1 travels beyond the heliosheath and crosses the heliopause, it will officially be in interstellar space. The spacecraft is hurtling toward the solar system's edge at a steady rate of about 38,000 mph (61,155 kph).NASA thinks Voyager 1 could cross into the interstellar frontier by 2014. When the probe makes the crossing, there should be a sudden drop in the amount of hot particles Voyager 1 encounters and a spike in the number of cold particles it detects, NASA officials said. The observations were presented yesterday at the fall 2010 meeting of the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.Voyager 1 was actually one of two spacecraft launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system. On Aug. 20 of that year, just a few weeks before Voyager 1's launch, NASA launched Voyager 2 on a grand tour of the solar system that flew by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Both spacecraft rely on nuclear power sources to generate electricity.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/nasa-voyager-1-leaving-solar-system-101213.html NASA's Voyager 1 probe is nearing the edge of our solar system after 33 years... more

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First Planet Found Beyond Our Galaxy

A New Planet — from Beyond the Galaxy Read more:... more

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Texas Milky Way Time Lapse (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

Absolutely beautiful, an awesome sight! Wolfe Land Ranch, Comanche, Texas on June... more

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Hubble Space Telescope: Nasa’s New Image of ‘Spiral Galaxy’

A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy... more

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Hubble Finds Star Eating a Planet

The hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy may also be its shortest-lived world.... more

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(VIDEO) Physicist Stephen Hawking…WARNING! “Aliens Exist”, “Looking to Conquer and Colonize!”

Hawking: Aliens may pose risks to Earth Astrophysicist says extraterrestrials... more

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Unsettled Mechanism of Supernova Detonation Gets a New Twist

Type Ia supernovae, often used to calibrate cosmological measurements, may arise from... more

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Really Cool Video of the Galactic Center of the Milky Way Rising over Texas Star Party [video]

This fascinating video is a time lapse video of night sky as it passes over the 2009... more

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Mind the gap: Scientist creates intergalactic tube map of the Milky Way

If you thought your daily commute was a time-consuming chore, spare a thought for... more

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Highest Resolution Image of the Milky Way Ever, 500 Million Megapixels

The site linked with the image itself is 'kind of' slow so please be... more

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Heart of the Milky Way Photos From NASA

really amazing composite image of the Milky Way released by NASA. They combined infra... more

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What is Redshift?

If the lines in the spectrum of the light from a star or galaxy appear at a lower frequency (shifted toward the red) than where they are observed in the spectrum of the Sun, we say this object exhibits 'positive redshift'. The accepted explanation for this effect is that the object must be moving away from us. This interpretation is drawn by analogy with the downward shift in the pitch of a train whistle as it passes through a railroad crossing and then speeds away from us. The question is: Is recessional velocity the only thing that can produce a redshift, as modern astrophysicists presume? It has become clear that the answer to that question is an emphatic NO!

But a high redshift value does not necessarily mean the object is far away. There is another, more important cause of high redshift values.

Halton C. Arp is a professional astronomer who, earlier in his career, was Edwin Hubble's assistant. He has earned the Helen B.Warner prize, the Newcomb Cleveland award and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. For years he worked at the Mt. Palomar and Mt. Wilson observatories. While there, he developed his well known catalog of "Peculiar Galaxies" that are misshapen or irregular in appearance.

Arp discovered, by taking photographs through the big telescopes, that many pairs of quasars (quasi-stellar objects) which have extremely high redshift z values (and are therefore thought to be receding from us very rapidly - and thus must be located at a great distance from us) are physically associated with galaxies that have low redshift and are known to be relatively close by. Arp has photographs of many pairs of high redshift quasars that are symmetrically located on either side of what he suggests are their parent, low redshift galaxies. These pairings occur much more often than the probabilities of random placement would allow. Mainstream astrophysicists try to explain away Arp's observations of connected galaxies and quasars as being "illusions" or "coincidences of apparent location". But, the large number of physically associated quasars and low red shift galaxies that he has photographed and cataloged defies that evasion. It simply happens too often

Because of Arp's photos, the assumption that high red shift objects have to be very far away - on which the "Big Bang" theory and all of "accepted cosmology" is based - is proven to be wrong! The Big Bang theory is therefore falsified.If the lines in the spectrum of the light from a star or galaxy appear at a lower... more

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The Electric Universe 4

Part 4 of 4 Theory of Electric Universe easily explained in this documentary.

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