Category Archives: Space

Sun’s Nemesis Pelted Earth with Comets, Study Suggests | Space.com

Brown DwarfThis is about a year old but noticed it pop back up on CNN today, more than likely to drive hysteria about the looming ‘end of the world’ scenarios.

A dark object may be lurking near our solar system, occasionally kicking comets in our direction.?

Nicknamed “Nemesis” or “The Death Star,” this undetected object could be a red or brown dwarf star, or an even darker presence several times the mass of Jupiter.

Why do scientists think something could be hidden beyond the edge of our solar system? Originally, Nemesis was suggested as a way to explain a cycle of mass extinctions on Earth.?

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Mysterious Night-Shining Clouds Getting Brighter | Space.com

Mysterious Night-Shining Clouds Getting BrighterClouds bright enough to see at night are not as hard to find as they once were.

These so-called night-shining clouds are still rare — rare enough that Matthew DeLand, who has been studying them for 11 years, has seen them only once. But his odds are increasing.

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Symphony of Science: ‘We Are All Connected’ (Sagan, Feynman, Tyson & Nye)

Repost from Youtube:  “We Are All Connected” was made from sampling Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, The History Channel’s Universe series, Richard Feynman’s 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye’s Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking’s Universe, Cosmos, the Powers of 10, and more. It is a tribute to great minds of science, intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music.

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