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Earth’s Deadliest Nemesis: The Gamma Ray Burst?
Courtesy of: http://startswithabang.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/swift-gamma-ray-lg.jpg Maybe not right now, nor maybe not even tomorrow, but it could happen. Life on Earth could be in serious jeopa… more →
EIU Astro
Yup, we're still all pretty much screwed. Maybe.
dogsounds wrote 6 days ago: So…remember in previous articles how we have discussed various ways in which civilisation coul … more →
Special relativty 1 : Quantum gravity 0
kellyoakes wrote 1 week ago: One of the key postulates of Einstein’s theory of special relativity is that the speed of light in a … more →
Violent Star Explosion Breaks Records
bferrari wrote 1 month ago: Biggest explosion in the Universe...ever! Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago has b … more →
Darwin and After
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telescoper wrote 1 month ago: Another sign that the academic year is back into full swing is that the monthly meetings of the Roya … more →
Nearby Star May Be Getting Ready to Explode
bferrari wrote 2 months ago: Ready to go Nova !? Bye-bye, Betelgeuse? The nearby, well-known and very bright star may soon explod … more →
Earth’s Deadliest Nemesis: The Gamma Ray Burst?
heisman50 wrote 4 months ago: Courtesy of: http://startswithabang.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/swift-gamma-ray-lg.jpg Maybe not … more →
Global Dimming and Death of Our Sun
jase wrote 4 months ago: by Brian Cox The Sun is Dying Sol, our sun, will not live forever. It has enough fuel left, if our c … more →
Astronomy Goodness
skepticdetective wrote 4 months ago: To finish off my blogging today (because it’s almost lunchtime and I’m going to hunt a s … more →
Hubble's Final Servicing Mission
bferrari wrote 6 months ago: Two NASA T-38 jet trainer aircraft fly over the Space Shuttle Endeavour on Pad 39B at the Kennedy Sp … more →
Space Explosion Is Oldest, Furthest Thing Ever Seen
bferrari wrote 7 months ago: The fading infrared afterglow of GRB 090423 appears in the center of this false-color image taken wi … more →
The earliest, most-distant known object in the universe was just spotted.
ludditeandroid wrote 7 months ago: They see me burstin'. They hatin'. Via skyandtelescope: A faint gamma-ray burst (GRB) captur … more →
Extreme Universe: The most distant object known!
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jcconwell wrote 7 months ago: On April 23, 2009, the Swift satellite detected that explosion. This spectacular gamma ray burst was … more →
Astronomy Club: Gamma Ray Bursts
jcconwell wrote 8 months ago: Gamma Ray Bursts will be the topic of Robert Gaki’s talk this Wednesday at 8:00PM in Room 2153 … more →
Extreme Universe: Magnetic Fields and Magnetars
jcconwell wrote 8 months ago: Neutron Stars are extreme to begin with, but magnetars add a whole new level of extreme to these exo … more →
Extreme Universe:Most Extreme Gamma-Ray Blast Ever!
jcconwell wrote 9 months ago: The explosion, designated GRB 080916C, occurred just after midnight GMT on September 16 (7:13 p.m. o … more →
Most extreme gamma-ray blast yet
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mfrasca wrote 9 months ago: As my blog’s readers know, I follow as far as I can space missions that can have a deep impact … more →
How science deals with *real* threats
astrogeek wrote 11 months ago: … as opposed to 2012/Nibiru/Planet X nonsense. Early last year some imagery of a Wolf-Rayet st … more →
Billions of anti-matter particles
davidkirkpatrick wrote 1 year ago: Very interesting research. The release: Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory L … more →
Accelerated Thinking
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andyxl wrote 1 year ago: On Friday afternoon I had Roger Blandford and Martin Rees in my office at the same time. They have b … more →
