Would you believe me if I tell you that there are 10^5 planets like objects for each star in our Galaxy that are just wandering around, not bound to any star? I told one friend about this news and he was all like it would be great to live on one of this natural space […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 is the price of hardware, you can […]
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…
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