Cloud Hosting

Posted on Aug 3, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Consciousness, Cosmology, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Milky Way Galaxy, Science, Science News, Space News, Supernova, Technology, Universe

Todays stories range from Could We Use the Suns Gravity to Find Alien Life to The Source of Mysterious Infrared Light to When Will the Milky Ways Next Supernova Occur?

When Will the Next Supernova in Our Galaxy Occur? Scientists have new tools at their disposal to detect and study the dramatic explosion of a star, reports Dan Falk for The Smithsonian. Its been a long wait418 years since weve seen a star explode in our galaxy. So are we overdue for a bright, nearby supernova?

The Elusive Origin of Zero--Who decided that nothing should be something? reports Scientific American. Historians, journalists and others have variously identified the symbols birthplace as the Andes mountains of South America, the flood plains of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the surface of a calculating board in the Tang dynasty of China, a cast iron column and temple inscriptions in India, and most recently, a stone epigraphic inscription found in Cambodia.The tracing of zeros heritage has been elusive.

Could we use the Suns gravity to find alien life?With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet, reports Big Think. Our strongest nearby source of gravity, the Sun, is itself capable of producing a gravitational lens, but only if the geometry is right: conditions that dont begin until were 547 times the Earth-Sun distance away.

What if the reality we perceive is just an evolutionary trick? Do we see the world as it really is? Perhaps not. Maybe even likely not, says Robert Prentner in this YouTube video

With New Study, NASA Seeks the Science behind UFOs--Although modest in scope, a NASA research project reflects shifting attitudes toward the formerly taboo subject of UFOs, reports Adam Mann for Scientific American. NASAs announcement fits in with the suddenly more open-minded zeitgeist regarding UAPs.

Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on EarthA new origins-based system for classifying minerals reveals the huge geochemical imprint that life has left on Earth. It could help us identify other worlds with life too, reports Quanta.

Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From? Einsteins description of curved space-time doesnt easily mesh with a universe made up of quantum wavefunctions. Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discusses the quest for quantum gravity with host Steven Strogatz at Quanta.com

AI Is Discovering Its Own Fundamental Physics And Scientists Are BaffledAI observed videos of lava lamps and inflatable air dancers and identified dozens of physics variables that scientists dont yet understand, reports Vice Science.

Schrodinger Believed the Universe is One Universal Mind. The quantum physicist and author of the famous Cat Paradox believed that our individual minds are not unique but rather like the reflected light from prisms, reports Mind Matters.

Discovery of new exoplanet raises questions about planet formation, reports University of Florida. The Jupiter-sized world offers two key opportunities to scientists studying how all planets, including those in our own solar system, develop. A mere 1.5-million-year-old infant compared to its probable lifespan of billions of years, the planet is so young it can still provide clues about its birth.

Webb captures stellar gymnastics in the Cartwheel Galaxy, reports the ESA. Webbs high-precision instruments resolved individual stars and star-forming regions within the Cartwheel, and revealed the behavior of the black hole within its galactic center. These new details provide a renewed understanding of a galaxy in the midst of a slow transformation.

Dark Matter Mapped Around Distant Galaxies, reports Physics,com. Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background has been used to probe the distribution of dark matter around some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe.

Is the James Webb Space Telescope finding the furthest, oldest, youngest or first galaxies? An astronomer explains Michael J. I. Brown explains for Space.com

Cosmic Buckyballs Could Be The Source of Mysterious Infrared Light, reports Science Alert. Unidentified Infrared Emission (UIE) bands have baffled scientists for decades; according to a theoretical new work, at least some of these bands can be produced by highly ionized buckminsterfullerene, more commonly known as buckyballs.

Astronomers discover 21 new extremely low-mass white dwarf candidates, reports Phys,org. Extremely low-mass (ELM) white dwarfs (WDs) are rare objects, found with only few exceptions in short-period binaries.

Particle Physicists Puzzle Over a New Duality A hidden link has been found between two seemingly unrelated particle collision outcomes. Its the latest example of a mysterious web of mathematical connections between disparate theories of physics, reports Katie McCormick for Quanta.com

A New Private Moon Race Kicks Off Soon Commercial spacecraft are vying to land on the lunar surface, but can they jump-start a new space economy? reports Scientific American.

Image credit top of page: ESO Observatories, Chile

Curated by The Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff

The Galaxy Report newsletter brings you twice-weekly news of space and science that has the capacity to provide clues to the mystery of our existence and add a much needed cosmic perspective in our current Anthropocene Epoch.

Yes, sign me up for my free subscription.

Recent Galaxy Reports:

Original post:

The Origin of Zero to What Earths Minerals Can Tell Us About Aliens (The Galaxy Report) - The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel