THE DAILY GALAXY

• new“Satan’s Abode” -Exoplanet So Hot Molecules in Its Atmosphere are Torn to Shreds
    And we thought Venus was hot, with a surface temperature that melts lead. New observations of a bizarre world beyond our solar system, a massive gas giant –KELT-9b, an ultra-hot Jupiter three times the mass of our own Jupiter– is hotter than…
  - 21 hours ago 26 Jan 20, 3:57pm -
• “Star as Big as Our Solar System” –Triggered the Brightest Explosion in the Observable Universe
    An enigma within a mystery revealed an explanation to the peculiar emission lines seen in a supernovae as bright as an entire galaxy – SN 2006gy, a hypernova or quark-nova inside galaxy NGC 1260, some 250 million light-years away, first discove…
  - 2 days ago 25 Jan 20, 5:23pm -
• The Galaxy Report –“Deadly Deep-Earth Blobs 100 Times Height of Everest to Death on Mars”
      “The Galaxy Report” provides paragraph-length summaries of headline news by leading science journalists about the amazing discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the Cosmos beyond. Our caffine…
  - 3 days ago 24 Jan 20, 1:05pm -
• “From Before Its Birth” –Oldest, Pristine Stars in Universe Found at Milky Way’s Center
    “These pristine stars are among the oldest surviving stars in the Universe, and certainly the oldest stars we have ever seen,” said astronomer Louise Howes at The Australian National University (ANU), currently at Lund University, who was a m…
  - 4 days ago 23 Jan 20, 5:03pm -
• Planet Earth Report –“Melting Tibetan Glacier Could Release Ancient Unknown Viruses to Epic Stone-Age Voyage”
      “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 epic ocean journey that took Stone Age people to Australia –So…
  - 4 days ago 23 Jan 20, 3:44pm -

• Yarrabubba, Planet’s Oldest Asteroid Impact –“May Have Ended Snowball Earth”
    “Our findings highlight that acquiring precise ages of known craters is important – this one sat in plain sight for nearly two decades before its significance was realized. Yarrabubba is about half the age of the Earth and it raises the quest…
  - 5 days ago 22 Jan 20, 3:57pm -
• Weird World of Quantum Black Holes –“May Confirm Stephen Hawking’s Hypothesis”
    “According to Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, nothing can escape from the gravity of a black hole once it has passed a point of no return, known as the event horizon,” explained Niayesh Afshordi, a physics and astronomy professor a…
  - 5 days ago 22 Jan 20, 3:14pm -
• Unveiling the “Gates of Hell” –Astronomers Using Cosmic Echoes to Reveal Black Holes
      On April 10, 2019 the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team unveiled humanity’s first image of a supermassive black hole –described as the Gates of Hell and the End of Spacetime– the picture of galaxy Messier 87’s central supermassive bla…
  - 6 days ago 21 Jan 20, 4:08pm -
• Last Week’s Top 5 Space & Science Headlines –“We’ve No Idea What’s Out There to Planet-Sized Dark Matter”
        “We Have Absolutely No Idea What’s Out There” –Astronomers’ 2019 Views on Extraterrestrial Life “It’s Out There” –Origin of Phosphorus Alien to Earth, Key to Life Dark Matter Particles the Size of Planets? –“Yes” Say…
  - 7 days ago 20 Jan 20, 4:54pm -
• “Black Hole Enigma” –Could the Discovery Be a Massive Neutron Star?
    Our knowledge of black holes has grown exponentially since Princeton quantum physicist John Wheeler first named these enigmatic monsters in 1967, observing that “the laws of physics that we regard as ‘sacred,’ as immutable, are anything but…
  - 9 days ago 18 Jan 20, 4:42pm -
• Planet Earth Report –“The Strange Microbe that Shaped Evolution to Australia’s Terrifying Fire Clouds”
    “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.   ‘Fire clouds’: After Australia, scientists warn the erratic weather…
  - 10 days ago 17 Jan 20, 6:47pm -
• “Dead or Alive?” –Postmortem of Gigantic Galaxies at Dawn of the Cosmos
    “We found that its core seems already fully formed at that time,” says Masayuki Tanaka who led a team of researchers of the Cosmic Dawn Center at the Niels Bohr Institute and the National Observatory of Japan about a recently discovered massi…
  - 10 days ago 17 Jan 20, 4:48pm -
• Dark Matter Particles the Size of Planets? –“Yes” Say ‘Cold-Model’ Physicists
    “At first, we thought it was absurd. How else could you respond to the idea that black holes generate swirling clouds of planet-sized particles that could be the dark matter thought to hold galaxies together? We tend to think about particles as…
  - 11 days ago 16 Jan 20, 3:33pm -
• “It’s Out There” –Origin of Phosphorus Alien to Earth, Key to Life
    Phosphorus, present in our DNA and cell membranes, is one of the six main elements that make up the human body and an essential element for life as we know it. Unlike hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and calcium, phosphorus is rare. It is even…
  - 12 days ago 15 Jan 20, 3:23pm -
• “A Lonely Star, Nu Indi” — Revealed that 11.5 Billion Years Ago a Galaxy Slammed Into the Milky Way
    Gaia Mission scientists called it “hiding in plain sight” referring to their major breakthrough in unraveling the formation history of the Milky Way when our galaxy merged with another galaxy early in its life, littering evidence across the s…
  - 13 days ago 14 Jan 20, 5:19pm -
• ‘Xenobots’ –Living Robots May Signal a New Evolutionary Epoch
    Are we entering a new evolutionary epoch? “A book is made of wood. But it is not a tree. The dead cells have been repurposed to serve another need,” say researchers at the University of Vermont who have repurposed living cells—scraped from…
  - 13 days ago 14 Jan 20, 3:46pm -
• Ballooning Over Antarctica –“Searching for the Origins of Cosmic Rays”
    “After three Antarctic seasons — with 19 launch attempts, two launches and one recovery of the payload from a crevasse field — it is wonderful to have SuperTIGER-2 finally reach float altitude and begin collecting scientific data,” said B…
  - 14 days ago 13 Jan 20, 3:40pm -
• Last Week’s Top 5 Space & Science Headlines
    “Extreme!” –Iconic M87 Black Hole Jet Blasts at Close to Speed of Light NASA Hubble Team –“Finds 1st Evidence for Cold Dark Matter Theory” Alien Cluster of Young Stars Invading the Milky Way “Hubble’s Anatomy” –A 3D Autopsy of…
  - 14 days ago 13 Jan 20, 2:49pm -
• Planet Earth Report –“Top Secret Navy Video of Infamous UFO Event to Zoombie World of Viruses Key to Evolution”
      “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.   A huge meteorite smashed into Earth nearly 800,000 years ago. We may…
  - 17 days ago 10 Jan 20, 5:14pm -
• “Hot Jupiter” –Detected Spiraling Towards Its Fiery Doom
      Since its discovery in 1995, exoplanet WASP-12b, a “hot Jupiter,” has been spiraling towards its doom. Located 600 light-years away in the constellation Auriga, a Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that the exoplanet is spiral…
  - 18 days ago 9 Jan 20, 4:52pm -
• Ancient Global-Warming Epoch Unveils Clues for Anthropocene Earth
    “Thanks to our findings we now have a very clear picture of what was going on over 14 million years ago and this will change the way that scientists look at this period of global warming,” said Sindia Sosdian of Cardiff University’s School…
  - 18 days ago 9 Jan 20, 4:14pm -
• NASA Hubble Team –“Finds 1st Evidence for Cold Dark Matter Theory”
    Although the type of particle that makes up dark matter is still a mystery, a NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope has made a very compelling observational test for the cold dark matter model that passes “with flying colors,” said Tomma…
  - 18 days ago 9 Jan 20, 3:09pm -
• “Out of the Cosmic Dark Ages” –Earliest Evidence of the First Stars
    Following the Big Bang a gap of several hundred million years emerged that was filled with darkness– the cosmic dark ages, a time that’s not just absent light, but also devoid of data. Astronomers using the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak Natio…
  - 19 days ago 8 Jan 20, 4:50pm -
• Alien Cluster of Young Stars Invading the Milky Way
  “This is a puny cluster of stars—less than a few thousand in total—but it has big implications beyond its local area of the Milky Way,” says primary discoverer Adrian Price-Whelan, a research fellow at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for C…
  - 19 days ago 8 Jan 20, 2:36pm -
• The Galaxy Report –“Gravitational-Wave Mystery to Strange Dark Matter Discovery”
      Today’s “Galaxy Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our knowledge of the Milky Way and the Universe beyond.   Jupiter Is Flinging Comets Toward Earth Gravitational wa…
  - 20 days ago 7 Jan 20, 5:48pm -