Category: Space Exploration

How LIGO Discovered Gravity Waves

Posted by David Raiklen | Jul 6, 2023 | Blinded by Science, Space Exploration |

LIGO is back online with upgrades. And it’s being enhanced by a network of pulsars.

Gravity Waves Rock The Galaxy

Posted by David Raiklen | Jun 29, 2023 | Blinded by Science, Space Exploration |

Scientists report evidence that the whole universe around us is awash in the quiet background vibration of gravitational waves.

Arp220: Galaxies Collide In Cosmic Explosion

Posted by David Raiklen | Apr 24, 2023 | Blinded by Science, Space Exploration |

NASA has released a new JWST image Monday of two spiral galaxies merging, 250 million light-years away, in the constellation of Serpens.

Kerry Thornley: Dwarf Planet Eris, Discordianism, and the John F. Kennedy Assassination

Posted by Alden Loveshade | Apr 17, 2023 | Blinded by Science, Fandom, Politics, Science Fiction / Fantasy, Space Exploration |

Kerry Thornley was the one person in the history of the world who cofounded a religion, wrote a book about Lee Harvey Oswald before the Kennedy assassination, got investigated for it, and posthumously influenced the naming of a planet. He would have been 85 today.