This week’s Cosmic Quiz winner is Carina Wytiaz, who asked,
I’ve heard that all galaxies have a black hole at the center. Does our galaxy have a black hole?
You heard correctly, Carina. Astronomers have found evidence that all galaxies in the universe, including our own Milky Way galaxy, have Supermassive Black Holes at their centers.
A [...]
This week’s Cosmic Quiz winner is Greg McMurray, who asked:
How fast is the Earth moving relative to everything else?
Let’s break it down.
The first motion of Earth that we’re all familiar with is rotation – the movement of the Earth that gives us day and night. Here in Salt Lake City at about 40 degrees north [...]
Wow! What a fireball. It’s the buzz that surrounds this event that has everyone clambering for more information. As we try to answer people’s questions, we’ve gathered some of the most reliable data available at this point. We know that the meteor’s path (in the area of Salt Lake City) had it moving roughly from [...]
The Leonid meteor shower peaks at 9:00 a.m., MST, on Tuesday, November 17th.
There are predictions that observers in Asia may see several hundred meteors around the peak hour. However, under normal conditions, this shower produces 15-20 meteors per hour around peak time, so the best time to look for Leonid meteors would be the pre-dawn [...]
Just five weeks after the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) impacted the moon in the search for water, NASA scientists have announced the discovery of water on the moon.
On Oct. 9, 2009, the LCROSS Centaur upper stage rocket impacted the moon in the permanently shadowed region of the Cabeus crater near the south [...]
I’m betting doughnuts against the world ending in 2012.
Any takers?
The “2012″ disaster-pic opens Friday, and some folks are actually asking, “Is the world really going to end in 2012? Will the Earth’s magnetic field really reverse? Is there really a planet Nibiru headed toward us? Is it all tied to the Mayan calendar?”
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