Dark Energy
Dark Energy… And Zombie Stars!
[/caption] It's called a Type Ia supernovae and it shines with the luminosity of a billion suns. For all intents…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Big Rips And Little Rips
[/caption] One of a number of seemingly implausible features of dark energy is that its density is assumed to be…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Enough With The Dark Already
[/caption] The recent WiggleZ galaxy survey data further confirming that the universe is expanding with a uniform acceleration prompted a…
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Era of Space Shuttle Endeavour Ends with June 1 landing at the Kennedy Space Center
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Space Shuttle Endeavour and her six man crew landed safely today at the Kennedy Space…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Holographic Dark Information Energy
[/caption] Holographic Dark Information Energy gets my vote for the best mix of arcane theoretical concepts expressed in the shortest…
Australian Student Uncovers the Universe’s Missing Mass
[/caption] Not since the work of Fritz Zwicky has the astronomy world been so excited about the missing mass of…
GALEX Confirms Nature of Dark Energy
[/caption] From a JPL press release: A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time,…
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President Obama to Attend Endeavour’s Last Launch on April 29
[/caption] President Barack Obama and the entire First Family apparently plan to attend the final launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour,…
Cosmology 101: The End
[/caption] Welcome back to the third, and last, installment of Cosmology 101. So far, we've covered the history of the…
Hubble Rules Out One Alternative to Dark Energy
[/caption] From a NASA press release: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have ruled out an alternate theory on the…