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Giant Elliptical Galaxy Harbors Largest Known Black Hole in Universe (Weekend Feature)

The black hole at the center of the super giant elliptical galaxy M87 in cluster Virgo fifty million light-years away is the most massive black hole for which a precise mass has been measured -6.6 billion solar masses. Orbiting the... Continue reading

Posted 12 hours ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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NASAs 'Curiosity' Search for Life Targets Water-Altered Rock

NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by water. The pale rock in the upper center of the... Continue reading

Posted 13 hours ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Missing Lithium in Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy Challenges Big Bang Theory

Stars in the Milky Way have about four times less lithium on the surface than expected by Big Bang predictions. Some scientists suggest that stellar activity might destroy lithium, or the element might sink from the surface through lighter hydrogen,... Continue reading

Posted yesterday at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Image of the Day: Mars --Impact Central!

Taking before and after pictures of Martian terrain, researchers of the UA-led HiRISE imaging experiment have identified almost 250 fresh impact craters on the Red Planet, providing a more accurate yardstick of surface processes on Mars. Scientists using images from... Continue reading

Posted yesterday at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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"Extreme Physics" Detected in Binary Neutron-Star System

South Africa's new radio telescope reveals giant outbursts from binary star system. Using the seven-dish KAT-7 telescope and the 26 m radio telescope at the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) in South Africa, astronomers have observed a neutron star system... Continue reading

Posted 2 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Asteroid QE2 Will Sail Past Earth in Two Weeks

On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2, which is believed to be about 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) or nine Queen Elizabeth 2 ship-lengths in size, will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million... Continue reading

Posted 2 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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"First Evidence for Extraterrestrial Sources of High-Energy Neutrinos" --Reports Antarctica Observatory

Although cosmic rays were discovered 100 years ago, their origin remains one of the most enduring mysteries in physics. Until now. A massive telescope at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in the Antarctic ice reports the detection of 28 extremely high-energy... Continue reading

Posted 2 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Search for Habitable Planets in Jeopardy --"Kepler Mission in Potential Terminal Malfunction"

The Kepler Space Mission, one of the most successful programs in NASA history that's surveying 1/400 of our Milky Way Galaxy for habitable planets, may be coming to a premature end. NASA officials announced via a press conference this afternoon... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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NASA Creates 1st Global Map of Titan --Saturn's Potential Life-Bearing Moon

Scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn’s moon Titan, giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Earth-like and interesting worlds in the solar system. The image above provided by NASA's Jet... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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"More Complex than a Galaxy" --New Insights into the Human Brain

"Consider the human brain," says the physicist Sir Roger Penrose. "If you look at the entire physical cosmos, our brains are a tiny, tiny part of it. But they're the most perfectly organized part. Compared to the complexity of a... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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The Higgs Boson and a 'New Physics' --"Could Make the Speed of Light Possible"

Scientists hailed CERN's confirmation of the Higgs Boson in July of 2012, speculating that it could one day make light speed travel possible by "un-massing" objects or allow huge items to be launched into space by "switching off" the Higgs.... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Orion Molecular Cloud --"A Source of the Complex Building Blocks of Life"

The spectacular new image above shows just a part of a bigger complex called the Orion Molecular Cloud, in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). A rich melting pot of bright nebulae, hot young stars and cold dust clouds, this... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Cosmic Dust --"A Clue to Origin of Earth's Oxygen and Water?"

"We don't understand yet how some of the most important molecules here on Earth are made in space. But our discovery of hydrogen peroxide with APEX seems to be showing us that cosmic dust is the missing ingredient in the... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Image of the Day --Arches Star Cluster Near Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

The Chandra X-Ray Obersvatory image below shows an envelope of 60-million-degree gas around a young cluster of stars, known as the Arches cluster, the most compact cluster of stars known in our galaxy which boasts 150 or so massive, young... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Kepler Mission Out of "Safe Mode"

During a scheduled semi-weekly contact on Friday, May 3rd, 2013, engineers discovered that the Kepler spacecraft was in a self-protective state called a safe mode. The spacecraft was returned to science data collection just before midnight on Monday, May 6th,... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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"Hacking the Cosmos" --Photon-Based Quantum Computing

"Quantum computers can efficiently render every physically possible quantum environment, even when vast numbers of universes are interacting. Quantum computation is a qualitatively new way of harnessing nature," according to David Deutch, an Israeli-British physicist at the University of Oxford... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Image of the Day: Supernova! Red Giant Emerging

After only 4.5 million years (one-thousandth the age of the Sun), HD 192163 began its headlong rush toward a supernova catastrophe. First it expanded enormously to become a red giant and ejected its outer layers at about 20,000 miles per... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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"Einstein's Planet" --New Method Using Theory of Relativity Detects Its First Alien Planet

An exciting new method of detecting alien planets looks for three small effects that occur simultaneously as a planet orbits its star. Einstein’s “beaming” effect causes the star to brighten as it moves toward us, tugged by the planet, and... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Planets Born Before the Formation of the Milky Way --8 Billion Years Earlier than Earth (Weekend Feature)

Two huge Jupiter-sized planets found orbiting a star 375 light-years away, that will soon transform into a red giant (image above), are the oldest alien worlds yet discovered, according to scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy. "The Milky Way... Continue reading

Posted 6 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Alien Planet Chemistry --A Diamond and Graphite Surface (Weekend Feature)

Exo-planet research led by Yale University scientists in 2012 suggests that a rocky planet twice Earth's size orbiting a nearby star has a distinctly alien chemistry. "This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with a fundamentally different chemistry... Continue reading

Posted 6 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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EcoAlert: CO2 Exceeds 400 ppm for 1st Time in Recorded History

Carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by fossil fuel burning and other human activities is the most significant greenhouse gas (GHG) contributing to climate change. Its concentration has increased every year since scientists started making measurements on the slopes of... Continue reading

Posted 7 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Bizarre State of Matter Found at Core of a Neutron Star (Weekend Feature)

In 2011, evidence for a bizarre state of matter, known as a superfluid, was identified in the dense core of a neutron star, based on over a decade of observations. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first direct evidence for... Continue reading

Posted 7 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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Source of Moon's Water After "The Giant Impact"

"The simplest explanation for what we found is that there was water on the proto-Earth at the time of the Giant Impact," said Alberto Saal, a geochemist at Brown University. "Some of that water survived the impact, and that's what... Continue reading

Posted 7 days ago at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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NASA Selects 2nd Mars Rock in Search for Ancient Microbial Life

The JPL team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming days. The rock, called "Cumberland," lies about nine feet (2.75 meters)... Continue reading

Posted May 10, 2013 at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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"Adios, Planet Earth!" Mars One Closing in on 100,000 Volunteers for One-way Mission (VIDEO)

“Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.” So wrote Kurt Vonnegut in... Continue reading

Posted May 10, 2013 at The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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