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If most of the large galaxies have black holes at the center, why do photos show a very bright spot instead of a black spot?
Jul 28th
There are 2 explanations for the bright spot apparent at the center of large galaxies: one local to the center and one due to our perspective at a distance.
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Most Detailed Image Of Our Planet Ever, Now Brought To Life As An Animation
Mar 4th
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center used satellite data to stitch together detailed scans of every square kilometer of the planet. And now, they just released an animated version of our spinning globe.
Read more: http://io9.com/5484889/most-detailed-image-of-our-planet-ever-now-brought-to-life-as-an-animation
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Milky Way’s Most Massive Star Discovered (PHOTOS)
Feb 5th
The Milky Way galaxy‘s most massive star has been spotted in a “glowing stellar nursery” in space.
The picture (see below) of the massive Milky Way star was captured by the European Southern Observatory’s aptly named ‘Very Large Telescope,’ which measures 27 feet in diameter.
The telescope, located at Cerro Paranal, Chile, combined data from violet, red and infrared filters to create the image of the Milky Way.
This massive star is housed in the NGC 3603 nebula, in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way, which is known as one of the luminous and most compact star clusters. It is located 22,000 light-years away from Earth.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/04/milky-ways-most-massive-s_n_449359.html
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Most Detailed View of Pluto to Date
Feb 5th
NASA’s images of the faraway ex-planet will help to calibrate the New Horizons spacecraft, which will pass Pluto in 2015. They will use Hubble’s images to set the exposure on board New Horizons, as it races past it. So fast, in fact, that it will only be able to photograph one of the hemispheres up close. [NASA]
Read more: http://gizmodo.com/5464428/most-detailed-view-of-pluto-to-date
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Most Comets Could Be Fragments of Larger Objects
Feb 1st
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There are numerous comets orbiting through the inner solar system, but where this huge amount of objects comes from is largely unknown. Now astronomers have suggested that many short orbit comets could in fact be fragments of much larger objects that break up into multiple pieces as they enter the inner solar system and interact gravitationally with the planets.
Short-period comets originate in the Kuiper belt of objects located beyond the orbit of Neptune, most of which have orbital periods less than 200 years. Some of these objects will eventually interact gravitationally with one of the outer planets and will be pushed towards the central region of the solar system. But observations reveal that there are a few objects in the Kuiper belt that actually have vulnerable orbits which will eventually send them towards the Sun, and even the population of comets that we’ve mentioned above is very likely to be routinely cut down by the heat of the Sun and eventually ejected out of the solar system.
Read more: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Most-Comets-Could-be-Fragments-of-Larger-Objects-90868.shtml
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If most of the large galaxies have black holes at the center, why do photos show a very bright spot instead of a black spot?
Feb 1st
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There are 2 explanations for the bright spot apparent at the center of large galaxies: one local to the center and one due to our perspective at a distance.
Read more: http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae630.cfm
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Why Did God Create Such A Massive Universe Since Most Of It Is Unsuitable For Life?
Jan 16th
If someone was completely ignorant of modern science and had never been exposed to the discoveries of the last thousand years or so and they were to sit down and read the six day creation story in Genesis they would come away with a view of the universe in which stars were just ornamental little lights to make the sky a little prettier and the sun and the moon would just serve the purpose of providing plenty of light in the daytime and just a little light at night so it would be easier to go to sleep. The earth would be at the center of everything and what we recognize as the universe wouldn’t even exist. In reality the universe is so massive that we really don’t know how big it is but we know that it’s at least 14 billion years old because that’s how long it took the light from the furthest stars we can detect to reach the earth. The earth itself is just a tiny speck in space and is not the center of anything.
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