Republicans more likely to be wrong about Universe
badastronomy.com — So a new Gallup poll was released saying that 60% - sixty percent - of Republicans polled believe humans were created as is 10,000 years ago. But before you Dems get all smug about this, note that 38% of you guys think the same thing. So Republicans as a whole are more likely to be wrong, but Dems show a strong lack of reality grasping themselves. (Submitted by mklopez) More...
Spooky action at the Space Station
badastronomy.com — In the world we live in, the macroscopic world, if you flip a coin, it can either land heads or tails. That’s it. But in the quantum world, that coin could be both heads and tails, with an equal probability of both. Until you actually examine the coin and see which way it landed, it exists in that weird in-between state. (Submitted by mklopez) More...
Astronomers weigh in on teeny stars
badastronomy.com — More brown dwarf news came out of the last press conference: the masses of some of the lowest mass brown dwarfs have been found using the powerful Keck telescope in Hawaii. They did this by precisely measuring the orbits of binary brown dwarfs, and from the well-known equations of how bodies orbit one another the masses were found. (Submitted by thinman1189) More...
The real Phoenix, in black and white
badastronomy.com — Some antiscientists never learn. Of course, if they did, they wouldn’t still be antiscientists. I present to you one Ted Twietmeyer. He is a contributor to Rense.com, a webby bastion of poor thinking, bad evidence, breathless speculation, and out-and-out nonsense. Twietmeyer, you may recall, made some incredibly ridiculous claims about an Apollo pi (Submitted by SirPopper) More...
MRO captures pic of Phoenix Lander DURING LANDING!
badastronomy.com — Think on this, and think on it carefully: you are seeing a manmade object falling gracefully and with intent to the surface of an alien world, as seen by another manmade object already circling that world (Submitted by PRB_Ohio) More...
Texas = Doomed, Part Deux. (or possibly Part Trois...)
badastronomy.com — "I have no clue if it’s too late to save Texas or not. I strongly urge anyone reading this who lives in Texas to write to Perry, to McLeroy, and to Berlanga (she could use the support) letting them know what you think. In fact, if I lived in Texas, I would ask for the immediate resignation of McLeroy, or demand Perry to remove him." (Submitted by arealgirl) More...
The youngest supernova in the Milky Way
badastronomy.com — After searching for literally decades, astronomers have found a supernova in our galaxy! ... It’s located very near the center of the galaxy, about 28,000 light years away, and it’s only at most about 140 years old. (Submitted by moomeep) More...
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