The Monster At The Centre Of The Galaxy
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A discussion of the black holes at the centre of galaxies. The Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy is a million times...
Category: Our Universe
Fermi Searches For Pulsars
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Useful information on thew Fermi x-ray telescope and pulsars. A pulsar is a type of neutron star that emits electromagnetic energy at periodic intervals. A...
Beyond Einstein – (2)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – We continue looking at the experiments that are being performed to go beyond Einstein’s theories. Here dark energy, black holes and space and time...
Beyond Einstein – (1)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – We look at the new mysteries of the Universe and the experiments that are being performed to go beyond Einstein’s theories. Such things as...
Voyager One’s Ride on the Magnetic Highway
-“For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross...
New ‘Super Jupiter’ Discovered
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is an artists impression of a new ‘Super Jupiter’ planet recently discovered by astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii...
The Fabric Of Space -Time
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has thrown new light onto space-time and found evidence that space-time is smooth as Einstein predicted. With...
Earth Sized Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri
– ” For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A planet about the mass of the Earth has been found orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri System, the nearest star system...
The Origin Of The Universe – Stephen Hawking (5 of 5)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – There is a lot we still do not understand about the Universe. A new window on the early Universe will open up when we...
The Origin Of The Universe – Stephen Hawking (4 of 5)
– ” For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is part 4 of the lecture on ‘The Origin Of The Universe” by Stephen Hawking. Here he discusses how the question of...
The Origin Of The Universe – Stephen Hawking (3 of 5)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Part 3 of Stephen Hawking’s lecture in Berkeley on March 13 2007, on the Origin Of The Universe. Enistein’s equations cannot predict how the...
The Origin Of The Universe – Stephen Hawking (2 of 5)
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is part 2 of the 5 part series we are presenting by Stephen Hawking on the Origin of the Universe. This lecture was...
Formation Of The Solar System – Stephen Hawking
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – In this short video Professor Stephen Hawking describes how the solar system and the Earth were formed. Unfortunately he does not narrate this video but...
Red Giant Devours Planet
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Astronomers have observed a Red giant in the process of devouring one of its planets. something similar could happen to Earth when our Sun...
Formalhaut b May Be Reclassified
When Formalhaut b was first discovered it was hailed as the first exoplanet to have been found by means of visible light. However shortly afterwards research seemed to indicate that Formalhaut b wasn’t a...
Dark Energy & Dark Matter -1
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” Dark matter are invisible objects that react with matter by gravitational force. In physical cosmology, dark energy is an exotic form of energy that permeates...
Measuring Ripples in Space-Time
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Following on from yesterdays post on gravitational waves we present a video on new techniques to measure these tiny ripples in space. With researchers...
What are Gravitational Waves
“For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Gravitational Waves are predicted in Einsteins General Theory of Relativity. Here is an easy to understand introduction to gravitational waves. Sources of detectable gravitational waves...
