Comet ISON most likely destroyed by the Sun
UPDATE 11/29/13 ISON MAY HAVE SURVIVED. Read about it here. 11/28/13 Well bad news everyone. If you did not catch the comet before it approached the sun you’re not going…
Category Archives: Space
Infant Galaxies Merging Near ‘Cosmic Dawn’
(Source NASA) This composite color image of a giant primordial bubble of gas, dubbed Himiko (after the queen of ancient Japan), is assembled from Hubble, Subaru, and Spitzer data. The…
Kepler-Spitzer give first look at clouds on exoplanet
For the first time we now have an idea what the clouds look like on a planet outside our own solar system. This is an amazing find, To think that…
Chandra finds densest galaxy 54 million light years away.
(NASA) – Astronomers may have found the densest galaxy in the nearby universe. The galaxy, known as M60-UCD1, is located near a massive elliptical galaxy NGC 4649, also called M60,…
Hubble Finds Largest Group of Star Clusters, Clues to Dark Matter
(NASA) – The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the largest known population of globular star clusters, an estimated 160,000, swarming like bees inside the crowded core of the giant grouping of galaxies…
Voyager 1 enters interstellar space, what does it mean to us?
It is official, NASA has announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 36 years ago, has exited our solar system and entered interstellar space. KnowledgeOrb has been reporting on the…
Odd Alignment, Butterfly Nebulae rotate perpendicular to galaxy.
An interesting phenomena has been reported in a called “Alignment of the Angular Momentum Vectors of Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Bulge”, appearing in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This…
Bright Meteor Seen Over Georgia/Tennessee 9/3/13 – Video
(NASA) Early Wednesday morning, at 3:27:20 AM Eastern Time, a piece of an asteroid, about 2 feet in diameter and weighing over 100 pounds, entered Earth’s atmosphere above the Georgia/Tennessee…
