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Published: 22 March 2011
Being a closed system, Earth rarely loses or gains extra matter. That means you are drinking the very same water that existed on Earth billions of years ago.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
China has announced that they will have launched 20 rockets and 25 satellites into space by the end of 2011, indicating that the country's space exploration is "highly intensive," an aerospace expert said Sunday. "This year, we are supposed to...  |
"The answer may be that other regions of the Universe are not quite so favourable for life as we know it, and that the laws of physics we measure in our part of the Universe are merely 'local by-laws', in...  |
"I see a strong parallel between the evolution of robot intelligence and the biological intelligence that preceded it. The largest nervous systems doubled in size about every fifteen million years since the Cambrian explosion 550 million years ago. Robot controllers...  |
Looking at the image of Grand spiral galaxy NGC 1232 provokes us at The Daily Galaxy" to wonder in awe "what exists within this magnificent object?" The galaxy is dominated by millions of bright stars and dark dust, caught up...  |
On Nov. 8th an asteroid named 2005 YU55 will make a near miss of Earth, passing within 0.85 lunar distances, about 203,000 miles The asteroid was discovered in 2005 by Robert McMillan of the Spacewatch Program and is a dark...  |
NASA Planet-Hunting Telescope Could Get Mission Extension NASA's prolific Kepler Space Telescope may get to extend its search for alien planets by a few years. Funding for Kepler — which has identified 1,235 candidate alien planets to date and recently...  |
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Monday, October 31, 2011
News from Planet Earth & Beyond
We learned in our intro to science courses that information cannot be transmitted faster than the speed of light. Yet laboratory experiments done over the last 30 years clearly show that some things appear to break this speed limit without...  |
Scientists who challenged current models of physics by reporting particles that broke the Universe's speed-of-light limit said on Friday they were taking a second look at their hotly debated experiment. "The new test began two or three days ago," said...  |
New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provide strong evidence that the slender, bulgeless galaxies can, like their heftier counterparts, harbor supermassive black holes at their cores. Previously, astronomers thought that a galaxy without a bulge could not have a...   |
There's also a chance that past visits to Earth by intelligent aliens left signs much closer to home. But probability and the length of the universe's age suggest that any such alien visit would have taken place before humans ever...  |
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
Vast clumps dust shrouds that obscure about half of supermassive black holes could be the result of high speed roller-derby crashes between planets and asteroids, according to a new theory from an international team of astronomers, led by Sergei Nayakshin...  |
The existence of a new signature of the birth of the first stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way was revealed by two researchers from Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg. More than 12 billion years ago, the intense ultraviolet light from...  |
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Friday, October 28, 2011
The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
Three planets -- each orbiting its own giant, dying star -- have been discovered by an international research team The new research is expected to shed light on the evolution of planetary systems around dying stars. It also will help...  |
Collisions between two galaxies may explain why supermassive black holes form develop in them, according to a new research by an international team headed by Dr John Silverman of the University of Kashiwa, Japan. These supermassive black holes are usually...  |
Recent analysis of data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten magma beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. The finding is the first direct confirmation of this kind of magma layer at...  |
Is the USA walking away from a mission that hopes to answer one the the truly great questions of the 21st Century: Are we alone in the Universe? According to widespread rumor, word has leaked out that the Obama administration...  |
New research from the University of Missouri indicates that Atlantic Ocean temperatures during the greenhouse climate of the Late Cretaceous Epoch were influenced by circulation in the deep ocean. These changes in circulation patterns 70 million years ago could help...  |
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
New discoveries in vast interstellar dust clouds permeating the universe and in nebula have revealed hints of organic matter that could be created naturally by stars, according to researchers at the University of Hong Kong. The discovery team observed stars...  |
Enceladus-flyby-browse Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is emerging as the most habitable spot beyond Earth in the Solar System for life as we know it, scientists said last week at a meeting of the Enceladus Focus Group at the SETI Institute...  |
A large new spiral arm of the Milky Way peppered with dense concentrations of molecular gas has been discovered by two Harvard astronmers. What are the odds that this new arm might host an Earth-like planet capable of evolving advanced...  |
Twenty years ago, astronomers discovered a number of enigmatic radio-emitting filaments concentrated near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. These features initially defied explanation, but a new study of radio images of the Galactic center may point to their...  |
This image of the variable star V838 Monocerotis near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy, about 20,000 light-years from our sun, was recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope in September 2006. The picture spans about 14 light-years. Ever since...  |
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Monday, October 24, 2011
The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
Posted: 24 Oct 2011 01:30 AM PDT The first actual image above of a planet in the process of forming around its star has been captured by astronomers who combined the power of the 10-meter Keck telescopes with a bit of optical sleight of hand. What astronomers...  |
Posted: 24 Oct 2011 08:26 AM PDT The large-scale structure of the Universe appears to be dominated by vast "hyperclusters" of galaxies, according to the new the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, compiled with a telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico. The survey plots the 2D positions of...  |
Posted: 24 Oct 2011 12:40 AM PDT Dark_matter The NASA Hubble Space Telescope image above shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, containing about 1,000 galaxies and trillions of stars. A new study suggests that mysterious, invisible dark...  |
Posted: 24 Oct 2011 12:14 AM PDT After only 4.5 million years (one-thousandth the age of the Sun), HD 192163 began its headlong rush toward a supernova catastrophe. First it expanded enormously to become a red giant and ejected its outer layers at about 20,000 miles per...  |
Posted: 24 Oct 2011 10:03 AM PDT A summer research expedition organized by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has led to the identification of gigantic amoebas at one of the deepest locations on Earth. During a July 2011 voyage to the Pacific...  |
Posted: 24 Oct 2011 12:08 AM PDT According to the British physicist Stephen Wolfram, intelligent life is inevitable. But there is a hitch. Although intelligent life is inevitable, we will never find it -at least not by looking out in the Milky Way. As evidence Wolfram points...  |
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