Last night I had a sudden odd thought: perhaps Shub-Niggurath, Our Lady of Biodiversity, is in fact the enormous, supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. Or She may even be the Milky Way itself, with all the endlessly complex biodiversity our galaxy must hold. Perhaps that is what H. P. Lovecraft and other contributors to the ( Read more... )

APOD: 2011 May 16 - Time Lapse Clouds and Sky Over the Canary Islands

If you could sit back and watch clouds and the sky move all night and day, what might you see? One answer from the island of Tenerife, captured over the course of the year, includes sequences that are not only breathtaking but instructive. Visible in the above time-lapse movie ( Read more... )

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http://www.universetoday.com/75913/astronomy-without-a-telescope-no-metal-no-planet/

Could humans live on alien worlds the way they have on Earth from the beginnings of the hominid lineage?

Well, within the Solar System, so far there is just one world capable of supporting our kind of life -- Earth itself. But we could plant bases and even underground colonies on the Moon and Mars, even now -- it's only a matter of going through ( Read more... )

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The center of our Milky Way Galaxy, located about 27,000 light years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, is occupied by a supermassive black hole. This black hole contains over 4 million times the mass of our Sun in an area smaller than half the orbit of Mercury. Matter accreting into the black hole is heated up to ( Read more... )

http://www.universetoday.com/2010/05/26/newly-discovered-stellar-nurseries-in-the-milky-way/

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http://www.universetoday.com/2010/02/23/alien-star-clusters-are-invading-the-milky-way/

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