THE DAILY GALAXY

• new“Exist at an Astonishing Scale” –Planets Orbiting Black Holes Could Harbor Life ‘Beyond Extreme’
    “The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe –the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time,” said Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Noble-Prize winning, Indian-Ame…
  - 3 hours ago 8 Aug 20, 4:01pm -
• “The Unknown Ancestor”  –Searching for Primordial Human Origins
      It’s been said that if a machine ever gains awareness, it will be not due to our careful programming, but to an unforeseeable anomaly. Perhaps the first anomaly occurred back in the distant primordial fog of human evolution. We may never kno…
  - 1 day ago 7 Aug 20, 2:24pm -
• Mars Eerie Pulsing Nightglow
    “If we’re going to send people to Mars, we better understand what’s going on in the atmosphere,” said Zachariah Milby, a researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at University of Colorado, Boulder. about the e…
  - 1 day ago 7 Aug 20, 1:26pm -
• “Lighting Up Jupiter’s Dark Side ” –Juno Mission Reveals the Unknown 
      Ever since NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter in March, 1979, scientists have wondered about the origin of Jupiter’s lightning, which had been theorized for centuries. Now, new results from NASA’s Juno mission, which has been…
  - 2 days ago 6 Aug 20, 11:00am -
• “Supersharp Vision” –First Exoplanet Discovered by Radio Telescope
      “In the deepest sense, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves,” said Carl Sagan. Although as yet unfulfilled, the quest continues from the Kepler Mission to Tess and now via the ten 25-meter radio antenna di…
  - 3 days ago 5 Aug 20, 2:04pm -

• “Particle at the End of the Universe” –LHC Unveils Phenomenon of Pivotal Importance for Fundamental Physics
    The detection of the “Higgs” in 2012  -described by Caltech physicist Sean Carroll as “the particle at the end of the universe” –was the physics equivalent of the discovery of DNA. Higgs bosons have the capacity to share space because…
  - 4 days ago 4 Aug 20, 5:45pm -
• “Supermassive Mutant” –Leads to a ‘Cambrian Explosion’ of Star Creation
      “Black holes are the seductive dragons of the universe,” wrote science-fiction author Robert Coover, “outwardly quiescent yet violent at the heart, uncanny, hostile, primeval, emitting a negative radiance that draws all toward them, gob…
  - 4 days ago 4 Aug 20, 1:48pm -
• “Ice Age Mars” –Challenges a Once ‘Warm and Wet’ Red Planet
    “Mars once was wet and fertile. It’s now bone dry,” said Cosmos host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.” Mars is crisscross…
  - 5 days ago 3 Aug 20, 5:31pm -
• Last Week’s Top 5 Space & Science Headlines –“Cosmic Hall of Mirrors to Mars ‘Science-Fiction’ Moon”
        Beyond Hubble’s Constant –“A New Age of the Universe” “Hall of Mirrors” –Orange Glow Around M87’s Colossal Black Hole Unveils History of Observable Universe “Phobos” –Mars Strange ‘Science-Fiction’ Moon May Hold Cl…
  - 5 days ago 3 Aug 20, 1:22pm -
• Planet Earth Report –“NASA Image of Black Cube on the Sun 10-X Size of Earth to the Last Giraffes”
      “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…
  - 6 days ago 2 Aug 20, 3:50pm -
• “Hall of Mirrors” –Orange Glow Around M87’s Colossal Black Hole Unveils History of Observable Universe
    “We were all getting together and asking: what does this thing mean?” says radio astronomer Michael Johnson at Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative about the glowing bright orange ring around the now iconic black hole the size of our solar syste…
  - 8 days ago 31 Jul 20, 6:00pm -
• Mystery Blob Detected Hidden Deep Inside a Supernova –“Not a Pulsar or Black Hole”
    In the fall of 1967, Princeton’s great quantum physicist, John Archibald Wheeler was giving a lecture on pulsars at a conference where he was arguing that we should consider the possibility that the center of a pulsar is a gravitationally compl…
  - 8 days ago 31 Jul 20, 2:39pm -
• “Primordial Paradox” –Quantum Fluctuations in the Early Universe
    “In the end, the most improbable and hence the most puzzling aspect of space is its very existence. The simple fact that we live in an apparently smooth and regular three dimensional world represents one of the greatest challenges to the develo…
  - 9 days ago 30 Jul 20, 3:25pm -
• Liftoff! –Perseverance Mission Heads to Mars Ancient Jezero Landing Site
    On Tuesday we wrote that Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. “It’s there,” said astronaut Buzz Aldrin, “waiting to be reached.” Today, NASA launched the Perseverance rover that will, if all goes as planned, touch do…
  - 9 days ago 30 Jul 20, 1:32pm -
• “Ghost Stars of the Milky Way” –Specters of an Ancient Globular Cluster
    “In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves,” observed Stephen Hawking. “From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of star…
  - 10 days ago 29 Jul 20, 4:43pm -
• “Godzilla Microbes” –Dormant for 100 Million Years in South Pacific Gyre
    “The oldest traces of life are fossils of marine microbes dating back almost 3.5 billion years. It was in the oceans that multicellular organisms evolved; their oldest fossils date back to about 2 billion years ago,” observes Carl Zimmer in P…
  - 10 days ago 29 Jul 20, 2:01pm -
• “The Robot Planet” –On July 30 NASA Will Launch a Programmed ‘Scientist’ to Search for Life on Mars
    It’s been said that Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. “It’s there,” said astronaut Buzz Aldrin, “waiting to be reached” and this July, 2020, NASA is planning to launch a mission to grab its first ‘taste’ of…
  - 11 days ago 28 Jul 20, 3:23pm -
• Beyond Hubble’s Constant –“A New Age of the Universe”
    “Eventually, we reach the utmost limits of our telescopes.There we measure shadows and search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial,” wrote Edwin Hubble in 1916, inventor of the famous “constan…
  - 12 days ago 27 Jul 20, 5:55pm -
• Last Week’s Top 5 Space & Science Headlines –“The Ocean Planet to New Strange State of Matter”
        “800-Million-Years Ago” –A Massive Storm of Two-Quadrillion Kilograms of Rock Triggered a Terrifying Ice Age “Imminent Reversal of Earth’s Poles?” –The South Atlantic Anomaly “The Ocean Planet” –Mystery of the Origin of…
  - 12 days ago 27 Jul 20, 1:26pm -
• Planet Earth Report –“Global Pandemic is a Hinge in History to Havens for Ancient Alien Life”
      “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…
  - 13 days ago 26 Jul 20, 2:53pm -
• “Phobos” –Mars Strange ‘Science-Fiction’ Moon May Hold Clues to Ancient Life
    A mysterious origin and Arthur C. Clarke-level science-fiction speculation about the 17-mile-wide, deeply-grooved moon as an alien artifact captured in the ancient past by Mars gravitational field, may explain Russia’s almost mystical obsession…
  - 14 days ago 25 Jul 20, 4:28pm -
• “Cosmic Connection” –New Hubble Image Harbors Secret of Saturn’s Rings
    “When you see Saturn floating in the eyepiece of your telescope, you feel a cosmic connection –as if you uncovered mystery in the cosmos,” says Carolyn Porco, who led the science-imaging team for NASA’s Cassini spacecraft mission, which i…
  - 15 days ago 24 Jul 20, 3:04pm -
• A New State of Matter –“Black Hole Physics of Strange Metals”
    “Not only does God play dice but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen,” said Stephen Hawking about the paradoxical physics of black Holes. Welcome to the bizarre quantum world of “strange metals” –a new state of matter.…
  - 16 days ago 23 Jul 20, 5:05pm -
• “800-Million-Years Ago” –A Massive Storm of Two-Quadrillion Kilograms of Rock Triggered a Terrifying Ice Age
    “Our moon is a witness to the history of the solar system,” says planetary scientist Kentaro Terada at Osaka University in Japan, referring to the lack of erosion on moon’s surface and evidence from the Copernicus crater and glass impact sp…
  - 16 days ago 23 Jul 20, 2:40pm -
• Planet Earth Report –“Most Brutal Ice Age in Earth’s History to ‘Islands of Fertility’ Beneath Antarctica”
    “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. C…
  - 17 days ago 22 Jul 20, 4:17pm -