Science and Reason

Hubble Portrays a Dusty Spiral Galaxy (9/28/12) Located about 55 million light-years from the sun and spanning about eighty thousand light...

M101: A Pinwheel in Many Colors (5/24/12) This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible,...

A Spiral Within a Spiral (5/21/12) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy known as ESO 498-G5. One in...

A galaxy blooming with new stars (12/15/11) The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) has captured the beauty of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253. The...

There was some very important news recently about neutrino oscillation , which I wrote about here . Rather than go into the details there, ...

Classic Portrait of a Barred Spiral Galaxy (2/3/12) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC...

A Galaxy Full of Surprises — NGC 3621 is bulgeless but has three central black holes This image, from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), show...

Amino acid alphabet soup Via Astrobiology Magazine , 8/19/11 All living creatures on this planet use the same 20 amino acids, even though t...

A Spiral in Leo (8/10/11) This new picture from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows NGC 3521, a spiral galaxy located about 35 million light ...

Dawn of the black holes (Science News) The seeds of the universe’s first black holes could have formed in gas halos much smaller than previo...