Falk admits that some of the ideas he outlines are a bit “far-fetched” but others are intriguing.
Astronomy
Primordial black holes not thought to explain dark matter after all,
… so search called off
Super-deep views of the universe
Featuring “strange things” and “unexpected findings”
Copernicus: How much of what you know about the controversy around his sun-centred model of the universe is history?
And how much is “Soviet realist”-type melodrama? For example, observational evidence actually supported a competing cosmology.
17000 rare NASA moon mission photos released
Including rare Mission 13 (Houston, we have a problem) photos
China lands probe on moon
Aims for manned moon mission.
Nature’s take on “Life and planets got started near the Big Bang”
Interestingly, the fact that almost no one thinks Loeb’s thesis is likely didn’t keep it out of the science media.
Newly discovered planet shouldn’t exist?
It is throwing a wrench into planet formation theories.
More Sat nite fun: The hexagon of Saturn
A unique six-sided jet stream captured by Cassini
Sat nite fun: See the moon “rotate”
You never saw this on Earth because you can’t.
ID Foundations, 20: Caught between the Moon and New York City . . . the Privileged Planet thesis
Yesterday, News put up a post on the mysterious origins of the moon, invoking a classic song on being caught between the Moon and New York City. (Niwrad added a post here on the multiverse that is also worth seeing. Kindly bear in mind this earlier ID Foundations post on fine tuning.) Mahuna aptly comments: Read More…
Origin of the moon still shrouded in mystery
A mission to Venus may provide answers.
Watch Earth spin from your browser …
For free, Internet users will log on to UrtheCast.com anytime to see the beauty of the big blue ball we live on, as the cameras make the 90-minute revolution around Earth, 16 times a day. It’s a sight few have ever seen before.
Birth of a black hole captured
An armada of instruments detected the brightest recorded event of this type occurring on April 27, 2013.
Black holes in star clusters upset 40-year-old theory
They do get kicked out, as claimed, only much more slowly. Nice visual of black hole.