THE DAILY GALAXY

• new“Pac-Man Black Hole Mergers” –Could Explain Origins of the Cosmic Web of Galaxies
    “This could be a unique way of probing the physics around these supermassive black holes in a way that could not be probed in any other way,” said theoretical gravitational wave astrophysicist, Rochester Institute of Technology’s Assistant…
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• newLast Week’s Top 5 Space & Science Headlines –“Masks of Earth to Jupiter’s Possible Lifeform”
  
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• Antimatter Galaxies –“Could Create the Most Destructive Event Since the Big Bang” (Weekend Feature)
      “Just because we happen to live in a region that is overwhelmingly dominated by matter doesn’t preclude the existence of other regions of space that are instead dominated by antimatter,” observes Dan Hooper, head of the Theoretical Astro…
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• Planet Earth Report –“Secret History of Earth’s Supernova Impacts to Human Psychic Powers”
    The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species.   Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence –By ignorin…
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• “Glowing” –Milky Way Seen Edge On in TESS Panorama of Southern Sky
    “Analysis of TESS data focuses on individual stars and planets one at a time, but I wanted to step back and highlight everything at once, really emphasizing the spectacular view TESS gives us of the entire sky,” said Ethan Kruse, a NASA Postd…
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• “Oldest Objects in the Universe” –Hubble Clues Solve Puzzle of Globular Galaxy Clusters
    Our Milky Way Galaxy is surrounded by about 150 globular clusters, formed about 11.5 billion years ago, 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang and shortly before the rate of cosmic star formation reached its peak, 10 billion years ago –a period k…
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• NASA: The Amazon –“The Largest Rainforest on Earth is Drying Out”
    “In comparing this trend to data from models that estimate climate variability over thousands of years, we determined that the change in atmospheric aridity is well beyond what would be expected from natural climate variability,” said JPL’s…
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• “Masks of Earth” –The Epic Warning of Iceland’s Camp Century
    “There have been many planet Earths” says astrophysicist Adam Frank who talks about climate change from an astro-biological lens. Frank’s observation mirrors author Peter Brannen’s lens in that if 100 million years of Earth’s geological…
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• “The Two Voyagers will Outlast Earth” –Now In the Realm of the Stars
    Researchers at the University of Iowa report that the spacecraft Voyager 2 has entered the interstellar medium (ISM), the region of space outside the bubble-shaped boundary produced by wind streaming outward from the sun. Voyager 2, thus, becomes…
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• “New Evidence” –Origin of Life in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
    Francis Crick,  responsible for discovering, along with James Watson, the double-helix structure of DNA, once described the origin of life as ‘almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it g…
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• 5,000 Robotic Eyes –“Probe the Unknowns of Dark Energy”
      “I have absolutely no clue what dark energy is. Dark energy appears strong enough to push the entire universe – yet its source is unknown, its location is unknown and its physics are highly speculative,” said physicist Adam Riess in an i…
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• “New Clue” –Points to Previously Unknown Type of Black Hole
      “We’re showing this hint that there is another population out there that we have yet to really probe in the search for black holes,” said Todd Thompson, a professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and lead author of a new study…
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• Jupiter’s Great Red Spot –“Could It Be a Way Station on the Road to Life?”
    Many scientists believe that it is, suggests Paul Davies, theoretical physicist at Arizona State University and director of the Beyond Center, in The Demon in the Machine, observing that the Great Red Spot is an example of a “dissipative struct…
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• Planet Earth Report –“Searching for a Rectangular Sun to Alien Telescopes”
      The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species.   Searching for a Rectangular Sun Above the Arctic Circle –As po…
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• “Life is Electric” –NASA Enigma Study Explores Origins of Life on Earth & Beyond
    “In science fiction, there is a lot of effort put into searching for signs of life like plants, animals and organisms that look like us. But there is a higher probability that alien life will be at the microscopic level,” says Rutgers Univers…
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• A Star the Size of an Atom
    “The final stage in the life of a star,” observes physicist Carlo Rovelli in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, “where the quantum fluctuations of space-time balance the weight of matter, is what is known as a ‘Planck star’. If the sun we…
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• “Wormhole at the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole”
    “If you map the expected orbit of a star around Sagittarius A*, you should see deviations from that orbit if there is a wormhole there with a star on the other side,” Dejan Stojkovic, professor of physics, University at Buffalo, who proposes…
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• “Baffling” –Radio Galaxies from Early Universe Still Appear Enormous
      “When we look far into the distant universe, we are observing objects way in the past – when they were young. We expected to find that these distant giants would appear as a comparatively small pair of vague lobes. To our surprise, we foun…
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• “Everything Goes Haywire” –Setting the Stage for the Big Bang
    “Reheating was an insane time, when everything went haywire,” says David Kaiser, the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT about the explosive phase just before the Big Bang of cosmic inflation, whic…
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• Planet Earth Report –“Snowden Nixes Alien Files to NASA’s Puzzling Antarctica Discovery”
      The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species.   Colorado Fossils Show How Mammals Raced to Fill Dinosaurs’ Voi…
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• “In Realtime” –Creation of One of Largest Objects in the Universe
    Astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other telescopes have put together a detailed map of a rare collision between four galaxy clusters, creating a mega-structure forming one of the most massive objects in the univer…
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• NASA’s “TESS Mission Objects” –Targets of Alien Civilizations Probe
      “I do indeed suspect there are other intelligent civilizations in the galaxy – we just need to look!” said astrophysicist Andrew Siemion, principal investigator for the Breakthrough Listen program and director of the Berkeley SETI Resear…
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• Planet Earth Report –“Climate Change Could Devastate US Military to Untold Secret Mission to Seize Nazi Data”
      The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species.   The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flash –…
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• Jupiter’s Spectacular Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact –“Came from Previously Unknown Comet Gateway”
    1994 July 16-22, over twenty fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (image above) that collided with the planet Jupiter were observed by astronomers at hundreds of observatories around the world as it crashed into Jupiter’s southern hemisphere fol…
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• Hubble’s Paradox –“Constant in Space, Not in Time”
    “While the Hubble Constant is constant everywhere in space at a given time, it is not constant in time.” explains Chris Fassnacht, professor of physics at UC Davis about the current crisis in cosmology, or “tension”, in understanding the…
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