In today’s edition of, “Why Is This A Thing We’re Talking About?”, we take a look at Space Strawberries, which is now a thing that we are apparently talking about. Why are we talking about this thing? Well, PopSci reports that the Seascape Strawberry Plant can produce strawberries with as little as 10 hours of light [...more]
The hand of God? An alien breaching the walls of our galaxy? The giant space hand you see here is actually pulsar PSR b1509-58.This neutron star spins seven times per second and is relatively young by pulsar standards – the light of the supernova that caused it would have first reached our planet about 1,700 [...more]
At the recent TED 2010 conference, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) founder Frank Drake proposed that humanity needs to do more to search for alien intelligences. His latest suggestion is that we move the search for intelligent life into the very depths of space where another species might be found. According to Drake, mankind should [...more]
@astro_mike: tell the astronauts planet earth says hi! The space shuttle Endeavour takes off today, carrying with it a crew that will deliver and install the Tranquility node to the International Space Station. Also going with them are their Twitter accounts – Astronaut Mike Massimino (@astro_mike) will be accepting tweets down at mission control at the [...more]
On February 1, President Obama unveiled his new budget proposal. Not found in its pages was funding for a Department of Socialism. On the other hand, an increase for NASA was included. The space agency would receive an additional $6 billion over the next five years, but funding for return trips to the moon. According to [...more]
Our galaxy will soon (3 billion years) get into the universal dance party and join the other 33 known galaxies containing a pair of supermassive black holes — we will, of course, be annihilated. Scientists with Berkeley unveiled new research showing that the phenomenon is actually much more common than once thought. The numbers [...more]
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