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Through the years there have been many ideas to explain why starts twinkle. Aristotle said twinkling was caused by wavering vision of people stretching the limits of their eyesight. Later, scientists thought stars rotated and displayed facets like diamonds as they turned. Today, the accepted explanation…

Astronomers watched as an asteroid passed about 1.5 million miles from Earth, and were excited how much wealth it might contain. The asteroid, known as 2011 UW-158, could be carrying as much as $5.4 trillion worth of precious metals and minerals. Astronomers looking at the half-kilometer wide space rock…

Astronomers first spotted an odd looking asteroid in September of 2013. At the time, it looked appeared to be an unusual fuzzy object in space. Two weeks later, closer observations reveal what appeared to be three bodies moving together in a cloud of dust roughly the diameter of the Earth. To get a better…

As technology has grown, scientists have found that many objects in space create unique noises or songs. In August 2014, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe heard a ticking sound coming from a comet labeled 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimneko. As the comet approached the sun, it emitted what sounded like…

Astronomers have seen what they believe could be the most powerful supernova explosion ever. They say the star, which is 3.8 billion light years away, was first seen in June 2015. Though it may have begun to fade, at its peak the event was 200 times more powerful than a typical exploding star. That means…

When most people think of the Super Bowl, they think of football. In 2015, NASA added a bit of football-themed rivalry that focused attention on God’s handiwork. On February 1st, the day of the big game, NASA tweeted photos of supernovas all day, asking lovers of space and football to retweet the nebula…

Astronomers using a powerful telescope have discovered “ripples” in the cosmos they believe began following the so-called “Big Bang.” Some scientists think that the universe exploded from a tiny speck and hurled itself out in all directions in the fraction of a second that followed the universe's birth.…

NASA launched The Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1977 to take photos of Jupiter and Saturn. Traveling through space at 38,000 mph it has taken until 2013 to reach interstellar space, some 11.66 billion miles from the Sun. Every new discovery reminds me of the greatness of our God and when I consider that Voyager…

For centuries, travelers have referred to the Polaris, the North Star, as being a constant beacon to rely on. Recent research has found that the star is actually changing and has gotten brighter in the last few years. Scott Engle of Villanova University in Pennsylvania says the star is not a Standard…

The extremely cold weather across much of North America in early January 2014, created an odd comparison between two planets. On the first day of 2014, the temperature in Winnipeg, Manitoba was 31 below zero Celsius. In the meantime, on Mars, which is over 100 million miles further away from the sun,…

A new NASA spacecraft has recorded and sent back a song sung by our planet. The Radiation Belt Storm Probes are spacecraft designed to study the Van Allen Belts around the Earth, and are currently orbiting in the area where the song is produced. The song is known as chorus and is an electromagnetic phenomenon…

Our God is the creator of all that exists creating the universe from nothing. After a team of 42 international scientists completed a six-year survey of 100 million stars in the Milky Way galaxy, they have determined that there are probably more than 160 billion planets accompanying earth in our galaxy.…

Astronomers say they have a huge cloud of water vapor deep in space. The cloud, which holds more than 140 trillion times the mass of all the water on Earth, is the largest discovery of water anywhere in history. Researchers say the vapor is contained within a distant quasar, surrounding a massive black…

The power unleashed by a thunderstorm inspires awe and wonder. A storm on the planet Saturn has astronomers marveling at the power being unleashed in the heavens. The storm, known as a Great White Spot, first appeared as a tiny white dot in the planet’s atmosphere in December 2010. A few weeks later,…

Astronomers continue to find more wonders in the far reaches of outer space. Recently researchers in London announced they had spotted an exotic planet that might be a giant diamond racing around a tiny star. The planet orbits a dense neutron star in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun.…

Astronomers examining the color of the Milky Way Galaxy have found that it has a very appropriate name. Researchers have wondered what our home galaxy looks like from the outside, but have found the task a challenge because earth is inside it. Speaking at the 219th American Astronomical Society meeting,…

Scientists studying a star in a nearby galaxy say the ball of burning gas could be the heaviest star ever discovered. Astronomers say the star, called R136a1, may have weighed as much as 320 times the mass of our own sun. They say it is burning with such intensity that it shines nearly 10 million times…

Could a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in early 2010 be a sign from God? The telescope photographed a mysterious X-shaped object in the heavens that has many astronomers puzzled. Science fiction buffs have suggested the object, located about 90 million miles from earth, resembles Hollywood…