An international team of astronomers has detected one of the earliest clusters of galaxies ever identified, located about 12.5 billion light years from Earth. Because light from such distant objects takes so long to reach earth, our telescopes act as time machines, catching this cluster in the act of formation when the universe was only 1 billion years old.
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Despite the fact that we haven’t located ETs yet, it’s almost inevitable that we will eventually, because there are three times as many stars in the universe as previously thought, meaning there are trillions of earthlike planets. This conclusion is based on new observations that have revealed other galaxies that have very different structures from our own Milky Way. This also explains the mystery of "dark matter."
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It may not be blue, but it’s THERE: At the border between our solar system and the rest of the galaxy, NASA’s new Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, launched in October, has spotted a band of mysterious high-energy emissions.
On the Skywatchers website, Clara Moskowitz quotes IBEX investigator David mcComas as saying, “The IBEX results are truly remarkable, with emissions not resembling any of the current theories or models of this never-before-seen region. We expected to see small, gradual spatial variations at the interstellar boundary, some 10 billion miles away. However, IBEX is showing us a very narrow ribbon that is two to three times brighter than anything else in the sky.”
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An explosion among the greatest ever recorded passed through oursolar system on December 27, about 40 hours after themassive tsunami struck the Indian Ocean. The massive energypulse was followed by a powerful solar storm and a month ofweather chaos on earth.
Unfortunately, science at present has no way of determiningwhether or not the energy pulse, which came from theexplosion of a dying neutron star, was connected to eventson earth.
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