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From: Di (amina046)
4/26/19
Astronomers Just Detected The Universe Is Expanding Much Faster Than It Should Be
The latest measurement of the expansion rate of the Universe is in, and it has confirmed with more certainty than ever that we have a real dilly of a pickle on our hands. Once again, the result has shown that the Universe is expanding much faster than it should be based on the conditions just after the Big Bang.The Universe's rate of expansion is called the Hubble Constant, and it's been...
Read more from www.sciencealert.comFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
4/30/19
Black hole caught warping space-time during feeding frenzy
Astronomers have witnessed a black hole ripping apart a nearby star and spraying jets of plasma into space like a rotating sprinkler.
Read more from ABC NewsFrom: PTG (anotherPTG)
5/3/19
Researchers from various teams including Yale and the University of California-Santa Cruz created the Hubble Legacy Field which includes 265,000 galaxies dating back 13.3 billion years.
From: Di (amina046)
5/3/19
Wow! No wonder I feel like an ant in the scheme of things! and that Karma is a terrible threat to ants!
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
5/4/19
Heads up!
If you've ever wanted to see a meteor shower, don't miss this weekend's Eta Aquariids
If you wake up at 3:00am this weekend, you could be treated to a spectacular light show in the sky.
Read more from ABC NewsFrom: PTG (anotherPTG)
5/4/19
Why do they always have the most spectacular displays in the sky in the early hours of the morning?
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
5/5/19
I imagine night time is better for viewing...
Unless it's a solar eclipse, of course.
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
5/8/19
New York wiped out during international space experts' asteroid defence simulation
Some of the biggest brains in the international space community come together to defend Earth against a fictional catastrophic asteroid threat - with varied success.
Read more from ABC News