The same goes to the staff of DG: A very happy and exciting one. Thanks for all your work over the years; it was always a joy to flip through...
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
"ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE" --New NASA Mission to Europa will Ignore Arthur C Clarke's Warning (2014 Most Popular)
NASA is ignoring Arthur C Clarke's warning to avoid exploring Juipter's moon, Europa. In 2010: Odyssey Two, a 1982 the science fiction novel...
Tuesday, 30 December 2014
"At the Edge of the Cosmic Ocean" --Human Tracks on Mars (Best of 2014)
“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic...
A 2014 Best Image --Phantom Light from 200 Billion Outcast Stars in Pandora's Galaxy Cluster
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the faint, ghostly glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that were gravitationally ripped...
Saturday, 27 December 2014
"Biggest Explosion Since the Big Bang" --From a Supermassive Black Hole a Billion Times the Mass of Our Sun
The cavities shown in the image of galaxy cluster MS0735 above were created by jets of charged particles ejected at nearly light speed from...
Thursday, 25 December 2014
Best Wishes for the Holidays! (The Christmas Tree Star Cluster)
The Cone Nebula, part of a much larger star-forming complex, is at bottom with inverted Christmas Tree cluster NGC 2264 above the cone; the...
Wednesday, 24 December 2014
Image of the Day: A Colossal Galaxy Almost as Old as the Universe
“AzTEC-3 is a massive galaxy that already contains billions of stars at this early epoch, but has the potential to form many more by present...
Image of the Day: A Colossal Galaxy Almost as Old as the Universe
“AzTEC-3 is a massive galaxy that already contains billions of stars at this early epoch, but has the potential to form many more by present...
A Gorgeous Island Universe --How Our Milky Way Would Look from 50-Million Light Years
The e gorgeous island universe spiral galaxy NGC 7331, about 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Pegasus is a visual...
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Image of the Day: The Dark Kilometer-High Cliffs of Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko
These amazing cliffs were discovered to be part of the dark nucleus of Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko (CG) by Rosetta, a robotic spacecraft...
Monday, 22 December 2014
New Milky Way Neighbor Discovered --"May Be a Huge Number of Dwarf Galaxies Out There"
The Milky Way, the galaxy we live in, is part of a cluster of more than 50 galaxies that make up the ‘Local Group’, a collection that includes...
Sunday, 21 December 2014
“There have been 10,000 Generations Before Us --Ours Could be the First to Discover Extraterrestrial Life” --NASA (2014 Most Viewed)
In 1960, the astronomer Francis Drake pointed a radio telescope located in Green Bank, West Virginia, toward two Sun-like stars 11 light...
Friday, 19 December 2014
NASA's Venus "Cloud" Mission --"Did It Once have Ancient Oceans?"
The conditions on Venus are hard to describe. Many planetary scientists say "Start by imagining Hell and work up from there." It's an environment...
Thursday, 18 December 2014
Mars' Mount Sharp Mystery -- Proof of a Lake Tens of Millions of Years Old?
"We are making headway in solving the mystery of Mount Sharp," said Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute...
NASA's Kepler Mission 2.0 Spies a New Super-Earth
"Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Kepler has been reborn and is continuing to make discoveries. Even better, the planet it found is...
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
An Alien Water World --"Could It be Habitable?" Asks MIT Team
Nearly 2,000 planets beyond our solar system have been identified to date. Whether any of these exoplanets are hospitable to life depends...
"Search for Earth's Deep Life" --Ancient, Hydrogen-Rich Waters Discovered Deep Underground
A team of scientists has mapped the location of hydrogen-rich waters found trapped kilometres beneath Earth's surface in rock fractures in...
Origin of Earth's Oceans --"From Plate Tectonics or Icy Comets?"
The relationship between Earth's plate tectonics and surface water is one of the great mysteries in the geosciences. But a new study supports...
Confirmed! NASA Makes First Detection of Organic Matter at Mars' Gale Crater (VIDEO)
"We think life began on Earth around 3.8 billion years ago, and our result shows that places on Mars had the same conditions at that time...
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