THE DAILY GALAXY

• newAstronomers Peer Through the Fog at Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole –“Is It Emitting a Jet Angled Toward Earth?”
      In 2019 astronomers lifted the veil on the monster black hole called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) at the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy. Using computer modelling, the scientists simulated the material inside the thick cloud of plasma, dust and gas s…
  - 16 hours ago 16 Apr 21, 1:56pm -
• “Dark Matter is a Mythical Beast” –A Figment of Our Ignorance
      What if gravity is an illusion, a cosmic side effect of something else going on at deeper levels of reality? The classical theory of gravity is in dire need of new approaches, since it doesn’t combine well with quantum physics. Both theories…
  - 2 days ago 15 Apr 21, 4:00pm -
• “Warping Spacetime to Explore Uncharted Realms” –NASA Seeks Out Hidden Planets at Milky Way’s Center
    Named after Nancy Roman, known as the “Mother of Hubble,” NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will explore uncharted regions of the galaxy for exoplanets, focusing on star-systems toward the crowded, chaotic center of our Milky Way galaxy. S…
  - 2 days ago 15 Apr 21, 3:00pm -
• 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.…
  - 3 days ago 14 Apr 21, 1:00pm -
• “Very Strange Stars” –A Big Clue to the Source of Life in the Cosmos?
      “Without phosphorus there would be no thought,” observed Jacob Moleschott a 19th-century physiologist and philosopher. Phosphorus is one of the six main elements that make up the human body and an essential element for life as we know it f…
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    Your free twice-weekly fix of  stories of space and science –a random journey from Planet Earth through the Cosmos– that has the capacity to provide clues to our existence and add a much needed cosmic perspective in our Anthropocene epoch. Y…
  - 3 days ago 14 Apr 21, 11:00am -
• “Worlds in Collision” – ‘Reawakening’ Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
    .  “Beautiful as it is, our Universe is constantly evolving, often through violent events like the Milky Way’s forthcoming collision with the Large Magellanic Cloud,” said Carlos Frenk, Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology…
  - 4 days ago 13 Apr 21, 2:00pm -
• “First Life-Bearing Planet in Our Solar System?” –Spectral Analysis of Molecules in Atmosphere of Venus May Confirm Its Presence
      Recent research has revealed that Venus might have looked like Earth for three billion years, with vast oceans that could have been friendly to life leading to recent speculation that it may have been the first life-bearing planet. A conjectur…
  - 4 days ago 12 Apr 21, 6:53pm -
• Planet Earth Report –“The Cosmic Chasm to the Mystery of Human Brain WiFi”
    It’s been an amazing news week on Planet Earth, with stories ranging from our physics tells us almost nothing about the deepest riddles of the Universe to human consciousness could reside in the brain’s electromagnetic field to the upcoming r…
  - 5 days ago 12 Apr 21, 4:10pm -
• Last Week’s Top 5 Space & Science Headlines –NASA’s “Epic” Ingenuity Helicopter to Milky Way’s Ancient K Stars
      “Epic” –NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Poised to Forever Change the Way We Explore Other Planets Milky Way’s Ancient K Stars – “The Best Bet for Planets With Life?” A Tiny Wobble Shakes the Foundations of Physics “An Inaccessibl…
  - 5 days ago 12 Apr 21, 2:37pm -
• The Great Unknown –“Is Dark Energy New Exotic Matter or an ET Force Field?”
    Welcome to the biggest mystery in physics: one of the great known unknowns of the universe is the nature of dark energy, an antigravitaional  force field making the universe expand faster. Current theories range from end-of-the universe scenario…
  - 6 days ago 11 Apr 21, 3:00pm -
• “Epic” –NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Poised to Forever Change the Way We Explore Other Planets
      NASA’s Ingenuity mini-helicopter is charging up its solar panels and spinning its blades in preparation to fly above the Martian surface. The 4-pound drone is set to lift off early on Monday in an atmosphere just 1/100th as dense as Earth’…
  - 7 days ago 10 Apr 21, 4:52pm -
• “The Death Star” –Did It Eject Life Into the Solar System?
    Some 65 million years ago the greatest asteroid impact in a billion years may have sown life throughout the solar system, even as it ravaged life on Earth. Blasted debris escaped Earth’s gravitational force forming irregular orbits around the s…
  - 7 days ago 10 Apr 21, 2:00pm -
• Jupiter’s Great Red Spot –“Could It Be a Way Station on the Long 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. Davies suggests that the Great Red Spot is an example of a “dissipa…
  - 8 days ago 9 Apr 21, 3:00pm -
• Planet Earth Report –“Myth of Stephen Hawking to ‘Perfect Storm’ 14-Times Earth’s Greatest Biological Catastrophe”
      “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalist about the discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future of the human species.   The Myth o…
  - 8 days ago 9 Apr 21, 2:23pm -
• Milky Way’s Ancient K Stars – “The Best Bet for Planets With Life?”
    “The Sun is 10 billion times brighter than an Earth-like planet around it, so that’s a lot of light you have to suppress if you want to see an orbiting planet. A K star might be ‘only’ a billion times brighter than an Earth orbiting aroun…
  - 8 days ago 9 Apr 21, 11:00am -
• A Tiny Wobble Shakes the Foundations of Physics
      Findings from a seminal experiment point to unknown forms of matter and energy vital to the nature and evolution of the Universe. The long-awaited first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National A…
  - 9 days ago 8 Apr 21, 3:30pm -
• “Phobos” –Mars Strange ‘Science-Fiction’ Moon May Hold Clues to Ancient Life
    A mysterious vertical rock formation, akin to the monolith in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel and Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey, towers above the surface of Mars’ 17-mile-wide and deeply-grooved moon Phobos. The origin of the monoli…
  - 9 days ago 8 Apr 21, 2:00pm -
• “Hyperion” –A Titanic Relic From the Early Universe
    This structure, which the researchers nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure to be found so early in the formation of the universe. The enormous mass of the proto-supercluster is calculated to be more than one million billi…
  - 9 days ago 8 Apr 21, 12:00pm -
• “An Inaccessible Realm” –A City-Sized Cosmic Object That’s Essentially a Ginormous Atomic Nuclei
      Though astronomers and physicists have studied and marveled at neutron stars for decades where just a single sugar-cube worth of neutron-star material would weigh 100 million tons here on Earth, or about the same as the entire human population…
  - 10 days ago 7 Apr 21, 2:00pm -
• Alien Rain –“A Key to Revealing the Ancient Climate on Planets like Mars and Potentially Habitable Exoplanets”
      “The insights we gain from thinking about raindrops and clouds in diverse environments are key to understanding exoplanet habitability,” said Robin Wordsworth, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard Joh…
  - 10 days ago 7 Apr 21, 1:12pm -
• “I Couldn’t Believe My Eyes”–A Strange Signal from One of the Largest Objects in the Cosmos
      “I couldn’t believe my eyes,” said Esra Bulbul of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics in July of 2014 of a still unfolding story about a strange signal that appeared not to come from any known type of matter detected in the x-ray spectru…
  - 10 days ago 7 Apr 21, 12:00pm -
• Dark Matter –“May Be Older Than the Big Bang”
    “We do not know what dark matter is, but if it has anything to do with any scalar particles, it may be older than the Big Bang,” says astrophysicist Tommi Tenkanen at the Johns Hopkins University, who was not part of a 2019 University of Toky…
  - 11 days ago 6 Apr 21, 2:00pm -
• Stephen Hawking’s Warning –“Treating AI as Science Fiction Would Potentially Be Our Worst Mistake Ever”
    “We should plan ahead,” warned physicist Stephen Hawking who died March, 2018, and was buried next to Isaac Newton. “If a superior alien civilization sent us a text message saying, ‘We’ll arrive in a few decades,’ would we just reply,…
  - 11 days ago 6 Apr 21, 1:00pm -
• Carbon–“Survived Vast Journeys from Cold, Dark Molecular Clouds in the Interstellar Medium”
      Can all life as we know it be traced back to the interstellar medium (ISM)? This March 2021, Michael McCarthy, an astrochemist and Acting Deputy Director of  Harvard Center for Astrophysics (CfA), commented about the discovery of a vast, prev…
  - 12 days ago 5 Apr 21, 5:08pm -