Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Now this is cool, or at least it is for me, and so perhaps you might (or might not) also think so. The American Museum of Natural History created a movie called “The Known Universe” for you to enjoy, and what is interesting about it is that everything you see within it comes from the world’s most complete … Read more
The headlines have of course been popping up … Aliens do exist and have been found living in the clouds above the Peak District – Telegraph Balloon sent to edge of atmosphere picks up organisms ‘that can only have come from space’ – Daily Mail OK, so have they actually discovered “alien organisms”? Short answer … Read more
It has taken us 35 years to get there, but finally we are now beginning to explore the heliosheath depletion region. Er … the what? Voyager 1, launched over 35 years ago, is at the fringe of the solar system and is now in a new region — not quite out, but not quite in at the same time – … Read more
I have two Star related items for you today. 100,000 Stars Google has launched a new Chrome Experiment called “100,000 Stars,” which provides a stunning look at the stars that arerelatively close to Earth – you know, just a few light years away. Google explains … Visualizing the exact location of every star in the galaxy is … Read more
A new computational model that can accurately follow the birth and evolution of thousands of galaxies over billions of years has been developed by a collaboration between the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies(HITS). We have now reaching a point where there is enough computing power available to build a model of an entire universe … Read more
Now this all hit my … “Oh-thats-Cool” … button. You know of course that the earth has a magnetic field around it, right? And that we are protected from the solar wind, a stream of energetic charged particles emanating from the Sun, by this magnetic field because it deflects most of the charged particles. Did … Read more