Where is Everyone???

The Fermi Paradox. Ten Reasons intelligent life might never survive long enough to meet us. Dennis Shea thinks you'll like this video. Keep looking up!

Can the Universe Expand Faster Than Light???

 This is a regular topic of discussion at Sky Watcher meetings.  Paul Sutter from The Universe Today has some thoughts on this cosmological question. Check the latest thoughts on the matter...

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EMP - The what, how and effects

Always wanted to know what'd happen if a nuclear device was detonated in space? Well, thanks to Dennis Shea you can watch a 17 minute video and find out. It's probably not as bad as you thought...

Take a look...

Goodbye to our Solar System as we know it

Astronomers confirm there is a new planet orbiting the Sun beyond Pluto. 

I doubt that it's "new", just newly discovered. Anyway, here 'tis...

Astronomers find a new denizen in the deep black of the solar system

 From Phil Plait's "Bad Astronomy Newsletter" (to which you SHOULD subscriber /free)

2017 OF201 is a giant iceball far, far beyond Neptune...and it complicates things for Planet Nine.

That's a LONG walk... to the most distant galaxy

The James Webb Space Telescope’s latest find is yet another record-breaker: the most distant galaxy ever detected, shining just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

See the Gizmodo Article

Jupiter the Dieter - Used to be twice as big

In a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy, Konstantin Batygin (PhD '12), professor of planetary science at Caltech; and Fred C. Adams, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Michigan; provide a detailed look into Jupiter's primordial state.

Jupiter Was Formerly Twice Its Current Size and Had a Much Stronger Magnetic Field - www.caltech.edu