An overlay of the universe

This is a picture I took I can’t remember how many years ago now. It was dusk, having a cookout at my moms house, and I was laying on the grass and this was what I was observing. The colors and the light compliment each other so well I had to snap a pic. But […]

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The Edge of the Sidewalk: How technology is helping us envision what black holes look like

We’re getting ever closer to revealing a deep cosmic mystery I’ve hinted at black holes in one of my earlier posts. These are superstructures of immense gravitational value, but they also can’t be seen (sound familiar?). We’re not sure what they do. Do they suck you up and spaghettify you? Do you get hurled into […]

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“See You in Another Life”: The Life, Death and Rebirth of our Galaxy

The Gases of our Milky Way tell a story… They say history repeats itself, and its only natural that the complexities of space provide insight into this idiom. Researchers in Japan have discovered that through a process called “cold flow accretion”, gases rich in “alpha” elements (oxygen, magnesium, silicon) flowed through our primordial galaxy in […]

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