Alleged Amazing Fact
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
Comment
This is, of course, no more remarkable than two victims of assassination being elected 96 years apart or 104. One hundred is just such a nice, round number that people see extreme significance in it–much like they did the [...]
It is a general misconception that space science is associated only with astronomy & galactic & stellar evolutions. It is a encompassing term used to study all the sciences that are associated with multidimensional space, a broad area of subject matter which accomplishes all parts of sciences which include astro-physics, astro-chemistry, thermodynamics (to study the [...]
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Possible detection of a binary star system that was later destroyed in a supernova.
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MPE/R. Voss et al. Optical: NASA/GSFC/Swift
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have reported the possible detection of a binary star system that was later destroyed in a supernova explosion. The new method they used provides great [...]
By Ker Than, SPACE.com
An enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe, scientists say.
The galaxies and gas bubbles, called Lyman alpha blobs, are aligned along three curvy filaments that formed about 2 billion years after the universe exploded [...]
Â
In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.Â
The increased electricity used by modern appliance parts is causing a shift in the Earth’s magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast [...]
At approximately 225 million years, a cosmic year is the length of time that it takes the sun to orbit the centre of the Milky Way
The international space station orbits earth at a speed of approximately 17,000 miles per hour
The comet Hale-Bopp won’t pass earth again until the year 4937.
According to Einstein’s theories, the universe [...]
There are said to be 2 million comets in the solar system. The most famous, Halley’s Comet, was last seen when it brushed earth in May, 1910. It will next be seen by earthlings in 1986.
Â
The most publicized comet in history, Kohoutek, was seen by earthlings in January, 1974. Ten months earlier, an astronomer, Dr. [...]
THE UNIVERSE AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Â
So immense are the distances in the universe that astronomers have had to coin their own length units, such as the light-year, in order to cope with the problem arising out of these enormous quantities, an awkward surplus of zeroes. Each light-year–the distance traveled by light in a year–is 6 [...]
Stars do evolve and die just like humans do, but in the course of billions of years which makes them look permanent. Compared to a human lifetime, most stars appear permanent. But in the course of millions to billions of years, they do evolve and age, and eventually they die. The most massive stars end their lives [...]
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured this picture of comet Holmes in February 2008, four months after the comet suddenly erupted and brightened a millionfold overnight. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
When comet Holmes unexpectedly erupted in 2007, professional and amateur astronomers around the world turned their telescopes toward the spectacular event. Their quest was to find out why [...]
Observations of two different systems — both containing stellar-mass black holes — are showing astronomers how much they have yet to learn. Coordinated observations of these systems using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope and NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer reveal surprising dips in optical brightness moments before high-energy flares erupt.
The systems are Swift [...]