Every time a new discovery is made about the universe, it opens up a new box of unanswered questions. One of these boxes is marked dark energy/dark matter.

Whenever we look up at the universe at night everything we see, that is all the protons, neutrons and electrons, make up for only 4% of the mass and energy of the Universe.
The rest is the dark and mysterious stuff known as dark energy (70%) and dark matter (26%). Continue Reading »

In the constellation Eridanus, southwest of Orion something quite peculiar has been found.

In this particular part of the universe, 6-10 billion light years away, there is a remarkable drop in the number of galaxies.

Astronomers had known there was something different about this spot in the universe, it had been dubbed the ‘cold spot’ because it stood out on a map produced by the Cosmic Microwave Background or (CMB), which are faint radio waves that are a remnant of the Big Bang, kind of like the earliest baby picture available of the universe. Continue Reading »

These are some of the best and grandest images we could find of space and nebulas taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Its primary advantage as a telescope is that it sees the heavens without the distortion of the earths atmosphere.

This three and a half minute video displays some of the more spectacular imagery taken by this awesome piece of engineering.

Thank you to Nasa.gov and Hubblesite.org for the images.

The beautiful, lilting music was composed by Jai Larkan and comes from the album “Where To Land”.

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They say a sense of humor is a sense of perspective. Well, I think Astronomy and Music are up there too.

Here is a video that will absolutely expand your perspective beyond its limits!

Tony Darnell, from AstronomyBuff.com has created a 6 minute YouTube video that will blow you away! This is the Hubble Deep Field imagery presented with a great voice over and some very cool music. Continue Reading »