Join renowned astrophysicist Brian Cox as he takes you on an exciting journey through the fascinating story of Betelgeuse and its impending supernova explosion! In this captivating video, Brian delves... continue reading

posted by BSR 3 months 1 week ago • 19 views • 16:33

Reaching the Andromeda Galaxy in Just a Minute! Brian Cox discusses the concept of time and distance contraction at speeds close to the speed of light. He explains that for objects moving near light... continue reading

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Brian Cox - Solving The Fermi Paradox: Intelligent Alien Life in Our Galaxy Brian Cox explains the details behind the Fermi Paradox and why we haven't yet found intelligent alien life. The more interesting... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 2 months 1 week ago • 74 views • 10:18

A quick basic-level tour through the first official image released by JWST, of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723

posted by eric3579 2 years 8 months ago • 314 views • 7:18

Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 10 months ago • 225 views • 9:55

From Youtube, "The night sky seems peaceful and orderly. But in reality, stars are careening through the galaxy at speeds of hundreds of thousands of kilometers per hour. Not bound by static formations... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 3 months 1 week ago • 326 views • 9:46

From Youtube, "The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 211 views • 11:41

From Youtube, "The Todd Rogers dragster saga is one of the juiciest stories in all of video game history. I was addicted to researching the dispute when it arose on Twin Galaxies and the entire story has... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 5 years 5 months ago • 29 views • 26:04

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our Milky Way galaxy (SgrA*) finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity,... continue reading

posted by eric3579 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 332 views • 5:24

With the large hadron collider running out of places to look for clues to a deeper theory of physics, we need a bigger particle accelerator. We have one - the galaxy.

posted by w1ndex 6 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 147 views • 16:26

YouTube description: He was inside Jabba the Hut in “Return of the Jedi,” helped make “The Muppets” come alive and has been pulling the strings on Yoda since he was 19 years old. Meet Dave Barclay,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months ago • 285 views • 3:12

The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is considered by the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy to be the "best drink in existence". While almost impossible to make on planet Earth, I needed to see if its effects... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 24 views • 6:55

YouTube: All the large-scale structure in the universe may owe its existence to nothing.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 264 views • 5:31

Via YouTube: The Gaia space observatory released a detailed 3d map of the Milky Way, and scientists have to figure out why Charon's north pole is red!

posted by Gratefulmom 8 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 21 views • 4:21

In the far distant future humanity will only be able to see the galaxy which they are part of. Nothing more.

posted by eric3579 8 years 10 months ago • 1,618 views • 7:45

YouTube: Sometimes galaxies eat each other! It's actually pretty common. And it turns out that our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is pretty hungry.

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 month 1 week ago • 79 views • 5:12

"We named the whole shebang after the sun." YouTube: In today's Crash Course Astronomy, Phil takes a look at the explosive history of our cosmic backyard. We explore how we went from a giant ball of... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade ago • 110 views • 10:17

Published on Sep 3, 2014 Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 1 decade 6 months 1 week ago • 1,314 views • 4:11

Some pretty interesting facts

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