Showing posts with the label
Andromeda
Star Trek is by now said to have encouraged a whole host of current devices from the iPad to the holodeck's 'virtual reality'. Now a very famous theoretical physicist says that even its t…
There is a massive black hole with millions of times more mass than our sun is plunging towards Earth and will one day annihilate life as we know it. This particular black hole is coming towards us a…
Ask a scientist for our cosmic address, and you'll get quite a mouthful. Here we are, on planet Earth, which spins on its axis and revolves around the Sun, which orbits in an ellipse arou…
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way and is one of a few galaxies that can be seen unaided from the Earth. In approximately 4.5 billion years the Andromeda Galaxy…
Persian astronomer abed al-Rahman al-Sufi is 900s studied Andromeda galaxy and mentioned it in his book as a “small cloud”. Simon Marius in 1612 gives a description of the Andromeda Galaxy object bas…
