Archive for the ‘Astronomy’ Category


Will “Intelligence” be an Evolutionary Constant Throughout the Universe?

tweetleaks @ 3:38 AM on March 11, 2010

Charley Lineweaver, a cosmologist with The Australian National University, believes the “Planet of the Apes Hypothesis” -a theory subscribed to by Carl Sagan and the astronomers involved with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), that hu…

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The Galaxies of Observable Universe Validate General Relativity & Existence of Dark Matter

tweetleaks @ 3:12 AM on March 11, 2010

An analysis of more than 70,000 of the estimated one trillion galaxies in the universe demonstrates that the universe – at least up to a distance of 3.5 billion light years from Earth – validate the rules set out 95…

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On the Brink of Detecting Space-Time Distortions —A Galaxy Interview

tweetleaks @ 3:02 AM on March 11, 2010

The universe’s smallest known binary, with by far the shortest known orbital period, has been confirmed by an international team of astronomers, and they likely hold the key to directly detecting space-time distortion for the first time ever. The two…

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Earth’s “Alien” Atmosphere: What You’re Breathing May Not Have Originated Here

tweetleaks @ 3:00 AM on March 11, 2010

Some scientists say that there really is something Kryptonian among us, brought to Earth by impacting objects from outer space – only it’s the noble gas, not a noble hero, because there’s nothing more Kryptonian than Krypton itself. A new…

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“Texting Flash Gordon”: Gamma Ray Bursts Release More Energy per Second Than the Sun in a Billion Years

tweetleaks @ 2:48 AM on March 11, 2010

Gamma Ray Bursts are the brightest things to happen to the universe since its beginning – extraordinarily intense electromagnetic events releasing more energy per second than the sun does in a billion years, and basically an excuse for astronomers to…

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