What is Time? | Space News

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Modern cosmology fuses the concepts of space and time into a thing, called a four-dimensional continuum. Albert Einstein predicted and recently scientists have claimed to observe ripples in the so-called fabric of space-time. But is it valid to define time in such a way as to reify it, and does…

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A Red Dwarf

  Jul 1, 2016 Colorful planets are the result of plasma cosmogony. Immanuel Kant’s theorized that the Solar System was born from a dusty cloud of gas, or nebula, floating in space. His idea is now known as the “Nebular Hypothesis.” Kant suggested that the cloud contracted because gravity drew…

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Star Streams

  Jun 30, 2016 Electrical interpretations are often a better fit. Two dwarf galaxies, known as the Magellanic Clouds, are orbiting the Milky Way and might have once been part of it. Both reside at the beginning of a filamentary structure known as the Magellanic Stream. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)…

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Imaginary Magnets

  Jun 29, 2016 There are no “super magnets” in space without powerful electric discharges. The standard model of stellar evolution proposes that pulsars are neutron stars rotating at incredible speed. In 2006, PSR J1748-2446ad was reported to spin at 43,000 RPM—the blades of a kitchen blender do not exceed…

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Plasma Guns

  Jun 24, 2016 Space and time do not bend. “Gravitational lensing” theory is used to explain the arcs of glowing material surrounding some galaxies. They also use it in conjunction with other theories to help deal with puzzling observations. One of those puzzles involves the so-called expanding Universe. Combining…

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Vesta’s Big Sister

  Jun 23, 2016 The dwarf planet Ceres shares many characteristics with other rocky bodies. NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft on September 27, 2007. Its scientific observations of the asteroid Vesta began on July 17, 2011 and ended on September 5, 2012 when Dawn fired-up its ion thruster engine and headed toward…

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