Five Discoveries In Fundamental Physics That Came As Total Surprises, Even while the world suffers, investing in science is non-negotiable, Merging Neutron Stars Deliver Deathblow To Dark Matter And Dark Energy Alternatives. And opened up entirely new ones, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Over a distance of 130 million light years, the gamma rays and gravitational waves emitted by merging neutron stars arrived offset by a…, “On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?” –Victor Francis Hess And there are plenty more multiverse theories like that.

Hope you had a nice New Years Eve and I'll hear from you again soon! As I'm into astrobiology, I'm especially glad for an actual factual evolutionary image of human ancestry, not the usual folk biology "ladder of descent" (chimps (!)-to-man). Happy new year to all; may you all enjoy our shared story and journey while you celebrate. The Best of Starts With A Bang: Top 10 for 2011, Comments of the Week #24: From cosmic unknowns to hidden supernovae, the Earth-Moon impactor perhaps ~ 200 Ma younger, http://www.astroblogs.nl/2012/01/01/infografiek-het-hele-universum-in-e…, Mixed Messaging On COVID-19 Can Erode Trust In Institutions, Confirmed: New York City's Rampant Coronavirus Outbreak From Not Restricting European Travel, Fact-Checking Joe Biden Science Claims On Energy, Remdesivir Gets FDA Approval As First COVID-19 Treatment, Organic Farming Is Not Compatible With Conservation, Single brain region links depression and anxiety, heart disease, and treatment sensitivity, Personal and financial costs of ADHD in Australia revealed, Nearly one in three young adults in the US does not know common stroke symptoms, How to prevent the spread of tumor cells via the lymph vessels, Emerging treatment helps reverse heart failure in some patients. The team who worked on NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, which took the picture, have been honoured with a Breakthrough Prize for their work. The picture helped answer some fundamental questions about the universe. Basically, the Universe is heavier than it should be. And it's something like a baby picture: it shows the cosmic microwave background radiation that was left over around 380,000 years after the Big Bang.

After more than two hundred new posts this year here on Starts With A Bang, where we covered everything from the science of tiny snowflakes to the earliest, farthest and most spectacular…, "When a star goes supernova, the explosion emits enough light to overshadow an entire solar system, even a galaxy.


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There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for." To get an idea of just how much more we will be able to see with this new technology, David Spergel, co-chair of the WFIRST science working group and the Charles A. Scheduled to launch in the mid-2020′, it will provide the largest picture of the universe that has ever been seen with the same depth and clarity as Hubble.

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It showed that the universe is 13.7 billion years old, and that only five per cent of it is made up from the elements in our own period table. Btw, new dating makes the Earth-Moon impactor perhaps ~ 200 Ma younger than the calendar date mentioned here. ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. See you in 2012! The ancient light, called the cosmic microwave background, was imprinted on the sky when the universe was 370,000 years old. . The image shows the robotic arm extended to the rock called Adirondack, Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photograph of the green lights of the aurora from the International Space Station, The Space Shuttle Challenger launches from Florida at dawn. Weekend Essay Links: from Fish to fish, it's been a wierd week.

Building instruments that are able to collect more of that information, and in even greater detail, gives scientists a remarkable power to push the boundaries of knowledge and understanding. Reading Peter Ward (2009) left me with the impression that Earth is not likely to support multicellular life beyond about 13 January of this year on your scale. Directed by Matthew Amos. On this mission, Kathryn Sullivan became the first U.S. woman to perform a spacewalk and Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space.

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Re: Dec 25th: Yeah, that was me, Santa, even back then. EXCELLENT. Goodbye, Scienceblogs,…, "Delay is the deadliest form of denial." Happy Halloween 2017! People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying." It's worth it. This is a most amazing timeline; thank you for the hard work. -Carl Sagan People's Choice Voting begins April 2 and closes April 13. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? This impact crater appears relatively recent as it has a sharp rim and well-preserved ejecta, This Nasa Hubble Space Telescope image presents the Arches Cluster, the densest known star cluster in the Milky Way, Nasa astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo from the International Space Station on 2 September 2014, On Mars, we can observe four classes of sandy landforms formed by the wind, or aeolian bedforms: ripples, transverse aeolian ridges, dunes, and what are called “draa”, A sokol suit helmet can be seen against the window of the Soyuz TMA-11M capsule shortly after the spacecraft landed with Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and perhaps the most majestic. Musical about The Entire Universe in one hour, with lots of jokes. Every good! Our Solar System is a pretty picturesque place. Our Sun is expected to enter the red giant phase of its development late in year two or early in year three. Great work.

-Sue Grafton But everything in that picture became the entire universe that surrounds us now.