THE DAILY GALAXY

• newPlanet Earth Report –“Herod’s Flu to What Life Will Look Like in 2022”
      “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future of the human species…
  - 9 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 3:37pm -
• newGhostly Galaxy –“May Unravel Mystery of Largest Black Holes in the Universe”
  .   An enduring mystery is where the largest black holes in the universe come from –massive cosmic paradoxes where creation is destruction; that have no memory, yet are said to contain the earliest memories of the universe. An answer may exist ab…
  - 11 hours ago 15 Jul 20, 1:19pm -
• “Blinding Whole Galaxies, Destroying Millions of Worlds” –Rare Short Gamma Ray Burst Detected
    A short gamma ray burst left the most-distant optical afterglow ever detected –incredibly faint and fast signals sometimes lasting mere hours–some 10 billion light years away, 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang. Astronomers suspect that up…
  - 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 6:00pm -
• Homo Erectus Technology –“The Long Journey from Ax to Algorithm”
    From about two million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was inhabited, at one and the same time, by  several human species, one of the earliest being Homo erectus, who walked upright and were built like modern humans, and they…
  - 1 day ago 14 Jul 20, 3:08pm -
• “Beyond the Void” –‘We are Early Explorers of the Cosmos, Extending into the Unknown’
    Our place in the Universe, for so long one of the core mysteries of the human Earthly existence, just got a little clearer and a bit more terrifying, according to Brent Tully at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. Tully  leads an o…
  - 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 2:42pm -

• Last Week’s Top 5 Space & Science Headlines –“Darwin’s Radio to Consciousness an Afterthought of Nature”
      “Unknown” –Four Never-Before-Seen Circular Objects Detected in Cosmos “Consciousness” –Existing Beyond Matter, Or in the Central Nervous System as an Afterthought of Nature? “Looking Under Venus’s Hood” –Was There Early Lif…
  - 2 days ago 13 Jul 20, 2:39pm -
• “Terra Incognito” –‘Ghost Galaxies’ of a Great Wall Discovered Hidden Beyond the Milky Way
      A ‘Holy Grail’ of astronomy is to provide a clear map of our galaxy –a perspective of Earth’s relationship to the physical universe where our solar system drifts between two spiral arms at its outer edges of the Milky Way, some 27,000…
  - 3 days ago 12 Jul 20, 3:35pm -
• “Consciousness” –Existing Beyond Matter, Or in the Central Nervous System as an Afterthought of Nature?
    Does human consciousness exist separate from matter, or is it embodied in the body –a critical player in anything that has to do with mind? “We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.” answers neuros…
  - 4 days ago 11 Jul 20, 3:26pm -
• “Primordial” –Planet Nine May Be a Grapefruit-Sized Black Hole
    In 2019, astronomers and physicists proposed that the long-sought for Planet Nine, an elusive dark body in the outer reaches of our solar system, may actually be a primordial black hole, a theoretical remnant of the Big Bang, which could account…
  - 5 days ago 10 Jul 20, 1:51pm -
• “Looking Under Venus’s Hood” –Was There Early Life on Earth’s ‘Twin’?
      Was Venus the first habitable planet in the Solar System? “Venus is like the control case for Earth,” said planetary scientist Sue Smrekar with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2019, about research suggesting that Venus might have loo…
  - 6 days ago 9 Jul 20, 5:02pm -
• “Unknown” –Four Never-Before-Seen Circular Objects Detected in Cosmos
      Invisible radio signals from the cosmos have revealed previously unknown phenomena from prebiotic molecules in a starburst about 250 million light-years from Earth to the true rotation of Mercury. But the most famous occurred on August 6, 1967…
  - 6 days ago 9 Jul 20, 2:55pm -
• Beyond Comprehension –“Neutron Star’s Superfluid, Superconducting Core at Supranuclear Densities”
    Neutron stars are an end state of stellar evolution, says astrophysicist Paul Lasky, at Australia’s Monash University and OzGrav. “They consist of the densest observable matter in the universe, under conditions that are impossible to produce…
  - 7 days ago 8 Jul 20, 3:49pm -
• “Are We a Second Genesis?” — Earth’s Hidden Alien Life
    Has life started many times of Earth? Could life as we know it today on our pale blue dot in fact be a second genesis? Could Earth’s original microbial life have formed four billion years ago, only to be destroyed some ten million years later d…
  - 7 days ago 8 Jul 20, 1:31pm -
• A Vast Alien Star Stream –“Unveiled Near the Sun”
    Nyx, a vast new stellar stream discovered in the vicinity of the Sun, named after the Greek goddess of the night, may provide the first indication that a dwarf galaxy had merged with the Milky Way disk. These stellar streams are thought to be glo…
  - 8 days ago 7 Jul 20, 6:56pm -
• Planet Earth Report –“Quantum Sapiens to Search for Alien Intelligence May be Doomed”
  
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• “The ‘Big Bang’ iPhone” –Age of Sun-Like Stars Predicts Lithium Production
    “Our observations show that Sun-like stars actually create lithium later in their lives, after they have swelled to become red giants. This means that the Sun itself will also manufacture lithium about five billion years in the future,” said…
  - 8 days ago 7 Jul 20, 1:29pm -
• Dying White Dwarfs –“Seeding Carbon and Life in the Cosmos”
    The oldest planet ever detected in the universe, The PSR B1620-26 system lies around 5,600 light years away in galaxy cluster M4, directly west of red supergiant star Antares is estimated to be around 13 billion years—almost three times as old…
  - 9 days ago 6 Jul 20, 7:42pm -
• “Herod’s Flu” –‘Homo Sapiens are Spaceships for Ancient Virus’
    Is evolution a gradual process, as Darwin believed, or can transnational change occur suddenly, in a violently brief time span, as suggested by Harvard biologist, Stephen Jay Gould who argued in Ever Since Darwin that “the ‘sudden’ appearan…
  - 9 days ago 6 Jul 20, 3:13pm -
• Last Week’s Top 5 Space & Science Headlines –“Signals of Phantom Universe to End of Spacetime”
      “Is There Life There, HAL?” –NASA Announces Intelligent AI Systems Installed on Probes of Distant Planets A Behemoth –“That Brings an End to Time and Space and the Laws of Physics” ”An Accident More Complex than the Cosmos” Sig…
  - 9 days ago 6 Jul 20, 12:47pm -
• New Neanderthal Link to Covid-19 –“A Dark Journey Through Human History”
    Scientists don’t yet know if a particular piece of human DNA passed down from Neanderthal interbreeding 60,000 years ago increases the risk of severe illness from covid-19.  The coronavirus, like all viruses, has made the ‘dark energy’ of…
  - 10 days ago 5 Jul 20, 4:33pm -
• “Ice Giant” –Blasted Fossil Core of a Massive, Jupiter-Sized Planet Discovered (Weekend Feature)
    A strange ice giant that can’t be explained by previous theory has been discovered by NASA Scientists using the exoplanet-sleuth Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS, which had “first light” on Aug. 7, 2018). The planet, TOI-849 b, i…
  - 10 days ago 5 Jul 20, 2:27pm -
• A Warning –“When Humans Truly Enter Space Freed from the Earth, They Cease to be Human”
    Perhaps in 10,000 years, or perhaps tomorrow, the inhabitants of Earth will wake up and find an alien spaceship the size of the Moon parked in orbit, writes China’s preeminent ‘hard’ science-fiction author and philosopher of alien contact,…
  - 11 days ago 4 Jul 20, 3:32pm -
• “Heading Towards Earth” –Strange ‘Red Flag’ Phenomena at Milky Way’s Center
      To determine the amount of energy or radiation at the center of the Milky Way, researchers had to peer through a galaxy packed with more than 200 billion stars and harbors dark patches of interstellar dust and gas. University of Wisconsin-Whit…
  - 12 days ago 4 Jul 20, 12:18pm -
• “Million-Year Birth” –Hubble Captures Fiery Creation of a Giant Star Cluster
    Most stars in the universe –including our life-giving Population 1, main-sequence Sun, one of more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, that formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago–are formed a massive star clusters created from the vi…
  - 12 days ago 3 Jul 20, 4:39pm -
• The Galaxy Insight –”One Wonders if Their Messages Came Long Ago”
      “Through how many dimensions and how many media will life have to pass? Down how many roads among the stars must man propel himself in search of the final secret?” asked scientist and philosopher Loren Eiseley with almost poetic, lyrical i…
  - 12 days ago 3 Jul 20, 1:24pm -