science

January 14, 2011 by THE COAL SPEAKER

Link: Galaxies identified as most distant yet foundAnd I ask.. how can this not mean anything but the chance that life is out there.. somewhere, and maybe everywhere! The BBC puts it this way: Cosmos-Aztec3 has been described as a “metropolis in the making”, because such clusters are believed to grow like cities, absorbing outlying … Read more

Tiny dwarf packs a big hole

January 13, 2011 by THE COAL SPEAKER

Scientists have spotted a relatively tiny galaxy (3,000 light years wide as opposed to 10,000 light years for the Milky Way).. but the minuscule galaxy also has a gargantuan black hole..

Amazing: The Planck space telescope has identified some of the largest structures ever seen in the Universe

January 12, 2011 by THE COAL SPEAKER

Amazing: The Planck space telescope has identified some of the largest structures ever seen in the Universe

NASA BECOMES A FILM CRITIC? DECLARES FILM ‘2012’ THE ‘MOST FLAWED’ SCI FI FILM IN HISTORY!

January 12, 2011 by THE COAL SPEAKER

I just thought it was plain bad. Never mind the science. NASA BECOMES A FILM CRITIC? DECLARES FILM ‘2012’ THE ‘MOST FLAWED’ SCI FI FILM IN HISTORY!

Rocky road: Update on the exoplanet announcement from NASA today

January 12, 2011 by THE COAL SPEAKER

NASA announces rocky exoplanet find..Found outside out solar system..Rocky road: Probe finds ‘planetary missing link’..Small and rocky.. 560 LIGHT-YEARS AWAY: MEET KEPLER 10b

Stories about solar flares alarm me. They alarm me even more than they contain the term ‘solar max’

December 29, 2010 by THE COAL SPEAKER

AFP: The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.