Even if you don’t know or care to know anything about outer space, you can still appreciate the zoom effect on this video: The tiny little red blob of a galaxy is known as MACS0647-JD, and is 13.3 BILLION light years away. Because we are actually seeing it as it looked 13.3 billion years ago,…
Viewing another planet whose inhabitants are possibly viewing us.
Since 1995, over 3,000 exoplanets have been discovered orbiting other stars in our Milky Way galaxy. While this is surely just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how many total planets (habitable or otherwise) are in our galaxy, they may as well not exist at all, since it will be next to impossible…
Seeing is believing. At least, in 2018 it will be.
The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most successful tools in the history of science, and has engendered unprecedented understanding of how our Universe works, just in the past 2 decades or so that it has been operational. But like most tools of any science, it’s usefulness is coming to an end. And while…
Please sit down. We need to talk…
…about interstellar travel, and how it may actually be possible. Because, science! Well yes, the guy in the video is somewhat annoying, but it’s a great concept nevertheless. The concept of the ‘warp bubble’ has been endemic to the Star Trek franchise for decades, but now physicists are potentially on the verge of showing that…
(Deliberately) Too Close For Comfort
…and we’re not referring to the weird sitcom from the 80’s set in San Franci…, um, never-mind. What we ARE referring to is something far more interesting, and it’s occurring about 1 billion miles away, around the planet Saturn. The Cassini space probe, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, is about to pass VERY…
We counted each individual pixel. Can you?
Our Milky Way galaxy is so massive that no one will blame you if you get lost trying to figure out all of the numbers involved. At LEAST 200 billion stars, possibly billions of planets, among a host of other things. So when presented with a panoramic view of the center of our Milky Way…
