Space

Accelerating Universe Expansion Without A Need To Invoke Magical Dark Energy

The umbrella term for the 68 percent of the universe that we can't detect and know nothing about has been given the umbrella term "dark energy." Like wormholes 30 years ago, it is more MacGuffin than science. You could call it aether or magi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 12 2017 - 5:14pm

Waiting For Jupiter

This evening I am blogging from a residence in Sesto val Pusteria, a beautiful mountain village in the Italian Alps. I came here for a few days of rest after a crazy work schedule in the past few days-the reason why my blogging has been intermittent. Sesto ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 15 2017 - 2:38pm

Starbursts In Virgo

Starburst galaxies are where stars are forming at such a breakneck rate that the galaxy is eating up its gas supply faster than it can be replenished. There are several different factors that can lead to such an ideal environment in which stars can form at ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2017 - 4:01pm

Can Giant Airships Accelerate To Orbit (JP Aerospace's Idea)?

JP Aerospace is an interesting company- in the city of Rancho Cordova, CA., California,  JP Aerospace, America's OTHER Space Program. Their aim is to develop ways to send airships up into the stratosphere- and more controversially, all the way to orb ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jul 10 2017 - 8:23pm

A Giant Fireball Thrown At Venice

In the evening of May 30 a giant fireball lit up the skies south of Venice, Italy. The object, which was traveling very slowly along a south-north trajectory, was captured by three video stations in the area, plus observed by countless bystanders and recor ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2017 - 2:28pm

Anonymous, claims NASA will announce finding (intelligent) alien life. What the....

A nonymous now has more credibility than all four big US cable news channels and the big newspapers combined.  This is due to the fact that while they and their sources are …anonymous.. they manage to find verifiable information.  This claim is different. ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 28 2017 - 6:29pm

Is Betelgeuse A Cannibal Star?

A day or two ago I came across this article ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jun 29 2017 - 2:01pm

A mechanistic common cause for inflation and dark energy using only standard model physics

Rather than providing another functional construct to fit observational cosmology, a mechanistic standard model approach seems to predict the same regarding both dark energy and inflation. The open access Journal of Cosmology recently published this theory ...

Blog Post - Robert Hayes - Jul 2 2017 - 7:34am

Existence Of Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes Confirmed?

At a distance of a mind-blowing 750 million light years from Earth, astronomers using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a system made up of 10 radio telescopes across the U.S., say they've been able to observe and measure the orbital motion between ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2017 - 5:40am

Alcohol In Space: The Universe Is Absolutely Drowning In Booze

A cold beer on a hot day or a whisky nightcap beside a coal fire. A well earned glass can loosen your thinking until you feel able to pierce the mysteries of life, death, love and identity. In moments like these, alcohol and the cosmic can seem intimately ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 25 2017 - 2:02pm