Big Bang Science News
October 18, 2012 at 1:33 pm | Posted in Big Bang, Miscellaneous, Regular Feature, Science News | Leave a commentTags: gizmodo, national geographic
Holy Tatooine: there’s a planet with 4 suns, and two amateur astronomers found it. While binary suns planets are rare, they do exist. Scientist have found approximately 5 of them. But this discovery is the only known quadruple suns planet. Citizen scientists, Robert Gagliano and Ian Jek, have christened their find PH1.
(CNN)
Speaking of Planets: the Keppler Space Museum has discovered an earth twin about 600 light years away. It’s located in the “Goldilocks Zone” (AKA: habital zone) of it’s star which means it’s neither too hot nor too cold for water. And water, as we all should know, means life. Scientists imaginatively dubbed this planet keppler 22-B.
(National Geographic) Continue Reading Big Bang Science News…
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October 11, 2012 at 12:13 pm | Posted in Big Bang, Miscellaneous, Regular Feature, Science News | Leave a commentTags: gizmodo, science daily
What a Bummer: Palaeontologists, who actually did all that nitpicky work, have determined that DNA lasts for only about 500 years (half life). So that means I’m not getting the ultimate T-rex watch dog after all. Seriously, that would have been the ultimate neighborhood crime watch, don’t you think?
Attack of the Jurassic Spider: I lied; it’s really the Cruteceous Period, but this is a fantastic 
frozen-in-time glimpse from our prehistoric past. That’s a male wasp trapped in the spider’s web (fifteen intact strands of the web were found in the amber). Another male spider was also trapped in the same amber.
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September 27, 2012 at 1:23 pm | Posted in Big Bang, Regular Feature, Science News | Leave a commentTags: curiosity, nasa, smithsonian
A thousand year old religious icon, a Nazi SS expedition into Tibet, and a meteorite. Sounds like the latest installment in the Indiana Jones franchise, right? You aren’t far off. A small Buddhist statue, originally uncovered by a Nazi expedition to Tibet, has been analyzed by scientists and found to have been carved from a meteorite fragment. From Red Orbit
Sounds like a Lucas fan’s dream story, right? It’s true which makes it even more amazing. 
Back in 1938, a Nazi led expedition discovered the statue and brought it back to Germany. In 2007 it was finally available for study and that’s when scientist learned it was chiseled from a piece of the Chinga meteorite (it’s made of ataxite). The Chinga meteorite crashed into parts of Mongolia and Siberia 15,000 years ago. Continue Reading Big Bang Science News…
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September 20, 2012 at 1:37 pm | Posted in Big Bang, Regular Feature, Science News | Leave a commentTags: fire tornado, mayans, national geographic, smithsonian, space shuttle
Mayan Doomsday Update: You’re going to have to pay your taxes after all. In the last known, still mostly unexplored Mayan megacity, researchers have discovered unique wall murals and a calendar that predicts the world not being destroyed, but instead continuing.
“In addition to a still vibrant scene of a king and his retinue, the walls are rife with calculations that
helped ancient scribes track vast amounts of time. Contrary to the idea the Maya predicted the end of the world in 2012, the markings suggest dates thousands of years in the future.”
The image at the right is a wall mural of Mayan warriors. It and it’s companion murals are unprecedented, having never been found anywhere else.
You can watch a video on this discovery on the National Geographic website. Continue Reading Big Bang Science…
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September 13, 2012 at 2:35 pm | Posted in Big Bang, Regular Feature, Science News | Leave a commentTags: buzz aldrin, gene cernan, john glenn, michael collins, nasa, Neil Armstrong
Today NASA honored Neil Armstrong at the National Cathedral, and the first man on the moon was remembered for his “Courage, Grace and Humility”. Armstrong’s fellow Apollo 11 crewmates, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin attended, as well as the first American to orbit the earth, John Glenn. Fellow Apollo program astronaut and the last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, paid tribute to Neil Armstrong. Cernan’s tribute included the following:
“He knew who he was and he understood the immensity of what he had done. Yet Neil was always 
willing to give of himself,” said Cernan, who told of trips that he, Armstrong and Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell made to visit troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“Those young men and women, who had yet to be born when Neil walked on the moon, greeted him with enthusiasm,” said Cernan. “They asked him, ‘Why are you here?’ Neil’s honest and thoughtful reply was, ‘Because you are here’.”
For more coverage of the Memorial to Armstrong continue reading here on the NASA website.
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