Astronomers have estimated that there are around 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe. But when we see other types of galaxies portrayed in science-fiction films, they tend to have the same basic shape as ours. This would be an example of our human-centered biases. Although many of...
They have a profound connection to the cosmos and, using mediation, they can communicate with other galaxies. They can also communicate with “light language”: a way of bypassing conventional limitations and making connections via the language of the soul. Starseeds are sent to change the world...
“However, the discovery of a new type of star that throws off matter could have wider significance for the spread of heavy elements in the Nuclear Disc and metal-rich regions of other galaxies.” The papers ‘The most variable VVV sources: eruptive protostars, dipping giants in the...
making scientists wonder if they gradually grew bigger over time, or if some other process might have been responsible. Only a few months after that discovery, astronomers also found a group of galaxies that wereorbiting in sync with each otherin a pattern that may be explained by dark matter...
There are different types of black holes that are created by different processes. Some were formed by the collapse of massive stars, many times bigger than the sun. Others are thought to have been formed when the universe came into existence. Still others exist at the center of galaxies, and...
Within the different categories of variables, some are particularly valuable to astronomy, since their variability can be measured. Research into the Cepheid variables helps determine theage of the universeand has provided information on the distant galaxies. Studies of Mira variables are important to ...
This sample appears to miss significantly galaxies above z=1.4 (in a similar way as an early-type galaxy sample previously studied by us), a fact which may be explained as a global decline of the underlying mass function for galaxies at these high redshifts. Differences between early and ...
Astrophotographyis an evolving and exciting subset of photography that involves the capture of the night sky and objects within it, including planets, stars, and galaxies. These photos can range from landscapes involving the night sky and stars to shots captured through a telescope that concentrate ...
feelings can feel irrational and messy, and they’d much rather focus on something they can quantify, like how many galaxies exist in the observable universe. When they’re annoyed, their go-to strategy is to detach, intellectualize, and file those pesky emotions away for “future review...
“dark energy;” there do in fact seem to be other explanations for things like the “velocity anomaly” in the local galaxies; see: http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2449— but it’s stuff like this that makes the idea of “repulsive gravity” attractive and I still wonder if ha...