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The European Union has been wanting to improve its Space Agency for quite some time, as they have seen a lot of promising results in recent years. With the future likely taking place in space, it is now time to act and make major changes and investments. That seems to be exactly what the EU […]

By now, most people have heard about the Maya. A group of people known for their infamous calendar that supposedly spelled doom for mankind years back. Even though, that was never what their calendar meant. Another Mexican people, known as the Olmec, were also part of major historical star mapmaking as well. The two built […]

NASA’s Artemis 1 project is incredibly important if humanity is going to become an interstellar species. The first tests were launched recently, and now the first step of the Artemis Mission is finished. The Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja, California. It was the first step to getting […]

If you thought that a supercomputer would be able to start its own simulated universe, we would have laughed at you a few years ago. Today though, we’d be eating our words. Recently, a supercomputer managed to start an infant universe (based on our own) and show how it transforms from a featureless landscape to […]

Whenever meetings take place with members of the European Space Agency, you expect to hear a lot of interesting stuff. While there was quite a lot of news coming out of their meeting in Paris, France this past week, the big one has to do with the upcoming budget. The ESA’s budget will be increasing […]

The James Webb Telescope has already been able to provide astronomers with a ton of incredible data and images. It launched in 2022, and some might have assumed it was only considered to replace other telescopes in space for a few years. However, NASA has spent decades on this thing! It seems to have already […]

Is there really a 13,000-year-old alien probe orbiting the earth? If so, who sent it and why? Is the official explanation of the strange object in the photos true? The Black Knight has been an intriguing mystery for decades, and it may go back even further than that.  Back Story The possible existence of the […]

“Telescopes are in some ways like time machines. They reveal galaxies so far away that their light has taken billions of years to reach us. We in astronomy have an advantage in studying the universe, in that we can actually see the past. We owe our existence to stars, because they make the atoms of […]

A galaxy is a collection of stars, gas, and dust bound together by gravity.  The smallest galaxies may contain only a few hundred thousand stars, while the largest may have hundreds of billions.  Galaxies are spread about by vast distances, separated by (relatively) empty space.  Their diameters may range from hundreds of light years across […]