So we are on the move as the android Astro Side app is up on the Google Play.
This new app will bring astronomy related news to your Android powered phone or tablet. Extra features include fresh interesting news from the world of science, fun related content, like joke of the day and quiz of [...]
Back on the sea of articles, surfing the latest news. And what is the latest rabbit from the hat?
Well, we know that they should be there, we know how do they look like, but we don’t know where they are and why we don’t see them.
And I’m not talking about aliens, they fit the [...]
I wrote this article sitting in a cafe, drinking good decaf latte from a light green mug and listening to unknown ambiental music.
- Who came first, the galaxy or the black hole?
- Is the evolution of black holes linked with the one of its host galaxy from the beginning?
- How many massive or super-massive black [...]
What can you do with a black hole? A first answer will be like, not much, and you better keep your distance!
It turns out that you can use the black hole in the center of our Galaxy as a giant telescope.
At least this is the idea of Amitai Bin-Nun of the University of Pennsylvania [...]
Let’s start explaining the title, what is SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)? It’s a very serious initiative to respond a fundamental question for us humans: Are We Alone?
The project uses telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such events do not occur naturally, so a detection would provide strong evidence of extraterrestrial signals.
50 [...]
I may continue with the full phrase like “These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise …” but we are a long way to say that. Presently we just managed to send people to our moon, some time ago, and we are scratching the surface of our solar system.
This doesn’t mean that we didn’t travel [...]
Long lost are the situations in which you had to observe a star or a galaxy with a telescope and mark all your observation on paper.
Today you don’t even see the telescope or satellite, and you are even of a different continent than the instrument of observation. You only have your personal computer and a [...]
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
The battle between GPU(Graphical Processing Unit) and CPU(Central processing unit) is even more fierce in the realm of science where many disciplines use simulations. One of this is astrophysics where simulations of physical processces in the Universe play an important role.
The main advantage of using the GPU [...]
Did you know that cosmologists can make a “memory album” of the Universe in its infancy? A so called “Baby Book” which can contain pictures of the Universe when it was as young as 380.000 years old, out of which one can extract useful informations about the birth and evolution of Baby Universe…
Do you know what a black hole is? Well yes, everybody knows by now what this monster is, an astrophysical object that can absorb everything, even light and from the insight of it there is no way out. But do you know how to measure it’s mass?
In a recent article by B. Czerny and M. [...]
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