Space Fan News #13: Before the Big Bang?
13th Mar, 2011 - 8185 views
Back from vacation and wanted to talk about Conformal Cyclic Cosmology. Back in November, a group announced that they have possibly detected gravity waves from interacting black hole in a universe prior to ours. Here is the paper: http://arxiv.org/
Space Fan News #12: Something Strange About Gravity
5th Mar, 2011 - 7604 views
Don't forgets your tweets: http://twitter.com/DeepAstronomy A couple of weeks ago a paper came out that supported the MOND theory for why the universe is accelerating. Here's the announcement: http://bit.ly/gFSz4Q Here's the paper: http://arxiv.o
How Do We Know Black Holes Exist?
4th Mar, 2011 - 164.0k views
http://deepastronomy.com is getting more stuff all the time, please remember to check it out! It's a natural question to ask how we know black holes exist if we can't see them. This video step through the history of thinking on the idea of black ho
Space Fan News #11: The Beginning of the End of an Era
27th Feb, 2011 - 5306 views
You can haz astronomy tweets: http://twitter.com/DeepAstronomy This week, I wax rhapsodic about the final launch of Discovery, and discuss it's relevance to the Hubble.
How the Hubble Space Telescope Will Die
25th Feb, 2011 - 87.7k views
Please check out the new/improved http://deepastronomy.com You will (eventually) be able to download all of my vids there. Sometime in 2024 the Hubble Space Telescope will die unless we can figure out a way to capture it and bring it down. This
Space Fan News #10: NASA smashes a comet, measures hole it made; the X2 flare that nobody noticed
19th Feb, 2011 - 5458 views
The two major events this week, both kinda overblown in my opinion, but nevertheless, there was some cool images to come out of it. NASA's comet flyby: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-056&cid=release_2011-056#1 X2 Flare: http://s