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How can something REALLY LARGE be hidden from sight? If it’s an object in space, astronomers can know it’s there from the reactions of other stars and planets, even if they can’t see it. They have evidence that either GIANT brown dwarf ("cold") star or a HUGE gas giant planet is at the outermost reaches of our solar system, far beyond Pluto. Astronomers think it’s 4 times as big as Jupiter and have even named it: Tyche. They even think it may be responsible for the mass extinctions that occur at regular intervals on Earth.
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Just like this week’s Dreamland host psychic medium Marla Frees! Most of what we see in the sky at night is very old, since it takes the light from distant stars a long time to travel to us. This means that astronomers are used to looking millions of years into the past. Now scientists have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look thousands of years into the FUTURE. By looking at the heart of Omega Centauri, a globular cluster in the Milky Way, they have calculated how the stars there will move over the next 10,000 years.read more

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The government may have inadvertently revealed a secret when the California director of a NASA center mentioned the "100 Year Starship," where astronauts leave the Earth to colonize another planet, but don’t return because the destination is so far away that it would take too long to make a round trip. So why don’t they just send robots instead? It would certainly be cheaper: Obama cancelled our projected trip to the moon when he was told it would cost $150 billion, but we could send robots there for less than $200 million.
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The rocky road – If space travel is in our future, we need to learn how to identify and avoid the “rocks” in the “road.” Somebody else seems to be doing it right now, so we should be able to as well. China is monitoring meteors as well.

New research from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth come in assorted colors and compositions. Some are dark and dull, others are shiny and bright. Physicist David Trilling says, “These rocks are teaching us about the places they come from. It’s like studying pebbles in a streambed to learn about the mountains they tumbled down.” And if we know where they came from, we can figure out where they’re GOING (that is, if they’re going to impact the Earth).
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