Journey to the Beginning of Space and Time

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How Stars are Born

Posted by Warren Wong on Monday, January 23, 2012, In : Star birth

Stars begin life as clouds of cold gas that transform into blazing hot fireballs.

Star dust, star dust, burning bright

Amid the glare of ancient light

Eternity stares back from the past

Reborn we'll be one day as dust

Stellar astrophysics
January 14, 2012 – Walk out to a dark viewing spot anywhere on the Earth and look up at the night sky. Your eyes will take in ancient light from stars in the Milky Way that covers the whole sky above you. Deep within the stellar nurseries of the Mil...

The Planetary Zoo is Expanding Accommodations for New Arrivals

Posted by Warren Wong on Wednesday, November 10, 2010, In : exo-planets

: What would life be like on a planet with such a weird orbit?

"Journey to the Beginning of Space and Time" to view the planetary zoo

: Looking for a new place to live?

Space scientists looking at the rapidly expanding menagerie of planets being added to the planetary zoo keep coming back from their journey wide-eyed and smiling like a kid that just got the key to the candy store. The latest editions to the planetary zoo are orbiting celestial bodies in orbits totally out-of-whack...

An Infinite Number of Galaxies?

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010, In : galaxies

: Just how many galaxies is an infinite number, anyway? NASA photos.

So many planets, so much diversity! Can life really be limited to Earth?

The galaxies you'll view during your journey to the beginning of the universe are like grains of sand on the beach, or snowflakes, with no two galaxies looking exactly the same to viewers. Astronomers have also viewed a number of different types of galaxies on the human journey to the beginning of the universe that they...

Journey to the Beginning of Space and Time

Showing Tag: "milky way" (Show all posts)

How Stars are Born

The Planetary Zoo is Expanding Accommodations for New Arrivals

An Infinite Number of Galaxies?

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