galaxies
Interstellar Winter: Did Galactic Clouds Cause An Ice Age On Earth?
Posted in Science on 18th Jun, 2024
by Alex Muller
The scientists simulated this scenario, and found the cloud could have blocked the heliosphere for anywhere from a few centuries to a million years, leaving Earth fully exposed to particles in the cloud during that time.
Background light suggests many stars 'outside galaxies'
Posted in Featured, Science on 10th Nov, 2014
by Alex Muller
A new study of the universe's background light has suggested that as many as half its stars might be hidden in the space between galaxies.
Dim matter filaments herald birth of massive new galaxy
Posted in Featured, Science on 2nd May, 2014
by Alex Muller
96 percent of the mass of the universe is dark matter, and just one percent is stars and galaxies.