Nasa’s Swift satellite took a break from its boring job of scanning the universe for gamma-ray explosions, and instead focused its polished eye towards a tiny bright dot in the distance. The dot is Comet ISON. An universal-loner, ISON is speeding towards our solar system and expected to give us a spectacular show across the
READ MORETwelve million light-years away from Earth exists the Cigar Galaxy, known as Messier 82. This brilliant starburst galaxy lives in the Ursa Major (Large Bear) constellation. Messier 82 shines bright amongst the entire universe, five times brighter than our Milky Way. This isolated conglomerate has burned bright in the retinas of our ancestors and has
READ MOREGhostTheory’s newest staff member, Lindsay, has been busy with the social media side of the website. If you haven’t visited or ‘Liked’ us yet, pay her a visit at our Facebook page. This week Lindsay posted an interesting article by EarthSky that talks about the potential catastrophic dangers that a wild asteroid could bring to
READ MOREOn October 4th 1957, a repeating series of four tones played on radios around the world as people looked up during the night to watch Sputnik fly over their heads. Its stated mission was to map temperatures of the Earth’s upper atmosphere but its effect, whether or not a covert mission was to instill a
READ MORESo, I guess the buzz around the block is that “mainstream science” is confident that the Higgs Boson particle does actually exist. If you don’t know what a Higgs Boson is, let me summarize it the best way I can: In quantum theory, the Higgs Boson (or ‘God Particle’) is one of the elementary particles
READ MORE“After excluding all known contaminants…we discovered bacterial DNA that does not match any known species listed in global databanks. We call it unidentified and ‘unclassified’ life,” It starts. We’ve been keeping tabs on the exciting excavation that’s been going on in Antartica’s Lake Vostok. Today, I got news that Russian scientists have unearthed (or
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