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Andromeda Galaxy

Posted on January 23, 2015 by matthewrbirnbaum

This picture…Wow.  Cliché as it may be, this 1.5 Billion pixel picture fascinates me.  To view this picture in its entirety, one would need 600 HD TVs.  While the picture is cool and would look great above my bed, I wonder if there are any implications of this picture.  According to NASA, this picture will […] Continue reading →

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Just how small… or big… am I?

Posted on January 23, 2015 by jamej00

The Known Universe This video really puts into perspective the true size of the observable universe.  Some say this makes us insignificant, but I disagree.  I think that our ability to map the nature of the universe to such an extent makes us quite significant! Realize that everything we know about the universe came solely from… Continue reading →

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The scale of supermassive black holes is mind boggling!

Posted on January 23, 2015 by lindenmuthadam

Crazy black hole video! They say learning about astronomy is a great way to feel insignificant, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the study of supermassive black holes. The amount of matter contained within these beasts is impossible to comprehend without visual aids. The black hole in the center of the Phoenix cluster […] Continue reading →

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Faster than the Speed of Light

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Marissa LePore

In summer of 2013, the New York Times published an article about NASA’s (then) newest project. Physicists and engineers were trying to determine whether “warp drive” might one day be possible. Warp drive, for those of you who are not Trekkies, is traveling faster than the speed of light or 3.0 x 10^5 km/s, and thus far […] Continue reading →

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Blog #1: The Cosmic Calendar

Posted on January 22, 2015 by oliviasn

After a particularly tough day or week, people can often be heard grumbling that “it has been such a long day/week.” I definitely fall victim to this habit and have always been fascinated by the fact that a specific amount of time can seem to pass by at different rates depending on the situation. How […] Continue reading →

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Blog #1 Space is Mind Blowing!

Posted on January 21, 2015 by boonea2

It is weird to think that we are all made of little particles that exploded in supernovas. Like how were we even created? It blows my mind. I was looking up some fun facts about space, and I came across an article that talked about Saturn, and I learned that Saturn has such a low […] Continue reading →

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Star size comparison

Posted on January 21, 2015 by newbeelity

Here’s a video about the size of planets and stars. Comparing to the size of Earth, the size of a single person is so tiny that even 70 billion people cannot completely occupy the whole land of Earth. However, when it comes to the scale of the universe, Earth is obscure. From the video linked… Continue reading →

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William Herschel believes in ghosts!

Posted on January 20, 2015 by karenagrebenc

picture from: www.redorbit.com One of my favorite moments in the Neil deGrasse Tyson-hosted show Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey takes place in the first moments of one of the first few episodes.  It “flashes back” to the early 1800’s, showing a cartoon involving the famous astronomer William Herschel and his young son, John, walking along the […] Continue reading →

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Blog Post #1: What would happen if you threw a baseball at the speed of light?

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Elizabeth D.

This web page gives us the answer. Basically, if any object with mass were moving at that speed, especially within our …

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Traveling Faster Than The Speed of Light

Posted on January 18, 2015 by pgolemanska

Can you possibly travel at a speed faster than the speed of light? Scientists think it might be possible even without violating Einstein’s theory that the speed of light is the “galactic speed limit.” Some theoretical models show that in the early stages of the universe, right after the Big Bang, space expanded at a […] Continue reading →

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