Baby Stars And The Sword Of Orion

Baby Stars And The Sword Of Orion

Astronomers have detected rapid changes in the brightness of embryonic stars within the well-known Orion Nebula, 1,350 light years from Earth, which appears prominently in the winter skies for…
IGR J17091 And The Cosmic Hurricane

IGR J17091 And The Cosmic Hurricane

Astronomers have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole - about 20,000,000 miles per hour, 3 percent of the speed of light. This is nearly 10…
The Blueprint Of Cosmic Structure

The Blueprint Of Cosmic Structure

Previously undiscovered islands of cold gas and a mysterious haze of microwaves could bring us closer to revealing the blueprint of cosmic structure. The results include the first map of carbon…
EXPERIMENTAL POSSIBILITY ON "TIME TRAVEL"?

EXPERIMENTAL POSSIBILITY ON "TIME TRAVEL"?

Recently I submitted an ABSTRACT for the Conference-COSPAR-12 , will be held at Mysore INDIA. unfortunately it was rejected for presentation. I am here with posting the same for the public interest…
Could Dark Matter Be Technologically Useful?

Could Dark Matter Be Technologically Useful?

  Following on my last article, I'd like to ask the question, weither some day, dark matter might be useful or even vital to a civilisation. This depends on the properties of the stuff,…
El Gordo - One Fat Galaxy

El Gordo - One Fat Galaxy

An extremely hot, massive young galaxy cluster named ACT-CL J0102-4915 is the largest ever seen in the distant Universe, and has been has been nicknamed El Gordo — the "big" or "fat one" in Spanish.…
Dark Atoms and Mirror Matter

Dark Atoms and Mirror Matter

  Over in print media today, New Scientist's cover article was on a "new" idea for what dark matter is. Apparently, dark matter should be composed of Dark Atoms, in a theory introduced by…
Stars That Ring Like Bells

Stars That Ring Like Bells

Time to ring in a new year with pressure waves.  We can see, but not, hear true sonic waves generated from stars, as the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope is finding.  We also get to…