Originally posted on Gerry Canavan:
New calculations suggest the Universe could collapse at any time.
Posts from the “Astronomy” Category
No subject outside of Literature, Art, Culture, and History has been more interesting to me than Astronomy, Cosmology, and the study of the universe as a whole. Even though these subjects are difficult, they are worlds that I’m curious about. What human does not gaze at the moon? How can we naturally not want to seek what is out there in the dark? It is very fascinating that sometimes we seem to be so absorbed in our routines on earth, that the sky becomes an abstraction that floats somewhere up there ignored from the streets below. Maybe rain, snow, the geologists, make us look up, but is that curiosity? Space is not an abstraction. Even, if the lights that we see from distant…
Tagged: astronomy
This is going to be my first post in a series called: Favorite Thing from Space!. I will try to write a little bit about some of the interesting objects in space, and various discoveries and theories that particularly interest me (in no particular order). The idea is not to write extensively about the objects (because I’m no expert!), but to maybe interest you in what is out there that’s kinda cool. Object of interest: Oort Cloud :) What is it? It is (hypothetically) a massive(!), spherically shaped cloud made up of trillions of comets (Wiki Oort Cloud). It is believed that all long-period comets actually originate from the cloud (UniverseToday.com / ABBY CESSNA). The Oort Cloud is really big…
Categories: Astronomy, Philosophy
Tagged: astronomy, Oort Cloud, Solar system, Space
