The longer we stare into the heavens, the more mysterious and astonishing it becomes. Over at DiscoveryMagazine.com, they've collected images and illustrations of some of the most recent amazements in a tidy little gallery.
Some of this stuff you've read about at Pound360. For example, a star so cool it doesn't glow. Or a comet that briefly "erupted" to a diameter greater than that of the Sun. But some of the items at DiscoverMagazin.com came as a surprise to us. For example, a galaxy that spins in the same direction its arms are pointed and a galaxy that doesn't contain any dark matter. Also, you'll meet the largest black hole discovered yet (it weighs in at 18 billion times the mass of our sun) and the smallest black hole on record (a mere 3.8-times the sun's mass).
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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