Alien Atmospheres – Methane, CFCs and Signs of Extraterrestiel Life.

Scientists are developing all sorts of ways to work out if distant stars have planets in orbit. Then they can also work out if there are worlds within the Goldilocks zone of the star system (the just right area) Not too hot or too cold. Now they can also work out if the planet of observation has an atmosphere. To learn more read the report below from Astrobiology Magazine


Alien Atmospheres – Methane, CFCs and Signs of Extraterrestrial “Intelligence” | Astrobiology Magazine

Exploding Star 20,000 Light Years Away.

When this event happened, there was an ice age on planet Earth and humans were battling the elements to survive. Humans did survive and civilisations have come and gone, empire have risen and fallen and the human race has been through many trials and tribulations. They have managed to look into the heavens and build telescopes that can look at the stars. They have discovered that the stars they look at are often in the past. They are witnessing an event that happened 20,000 years ago, yet only now do we realise that such a momentous event took place. It has taken 20,000 years of light speed for this information to reach us. If someone at the other end had a telescope and could look at Earth, they might look at Stone Age men hunting mammoths upon ice plains. They would have no notion we had adapted and evolved. It makes the mind boggle. All our silly little political squabbles seem meaningless when there is that vast eternity waiting for us. 

One day... one day...

Exciting New Star Cluster Photos Taken by Nasa Hubble Space Telescope

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Nasa has released a stunning image of a brightly coloured ancient cluster containing more than 100,000 stars captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The image depicts Messier 5, or M5, and includes a quote from 18th century astronomer Charles Messier's catalogue of clusters and other nebulae that begins: "Beautiful Nebula discovered between the Balance [Libra] & the Serpent [Serpens].”

This description suggests Messier believed M5 was a nebula, a cloud of dust, hydrogen and other gases, when developments in observation technology later revealed it was actually a cluster of stars.

Nasa said: “Though it appeared to Messier to be fuzzy and round and without stars, Messier 5 (M5) is now known to be a globular star cluster, 100,000 stars or more.”

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NASA: Space in pictures

The globular star cluster is bound by gravity and packed into a region around 165 light-years in diameter. It was discovered by German astronomer Gottfried Kirch in 1702 and lies some 25,000 light-years away from the Earth.

M5 is one of the oldest globulars and its stars are believed to be almost 13 billion years old, making it one of the oldest globulars to be associated with the Milky Way Galaxy.

“Even close to its dense core at the left, the cluster's aging red and blue giant stars and rejuvenated blue stragglers stand out in yellow and blue hues in the sharp color image”, Nasa added.

The Hubble Telescope was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre on 25 April, 1990 and celebrated its 24th year in orbit on Friday. The telescope's orbit outside of the Earth's atmosphere allows it to take high resolution images within almost no background light.