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The Universe

By Adam Rifkin

It's big. Really, really big.

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The Best Science Books of 2016 – Brain Pickings

Top Ancient Sites for Stargazing

SETI Scientist Seth Shostack says Aliens Are Likely Robotic Life-Forms

'Planet Nine' Can't Hide Much Longer, Scientists Say

The Universe Contains Two Trillion Galaxies, Which Is Nearly Ten Times As Many Galaxies As Previously Estimated

Life "not as we know it" might be possible on Saturn's moon Titan. Bring on the methane.

If aliens call, we should be 'wary of answering', says Stephen Hawking.

Tom Kerss on Twitter: "...an amazing but brief moment in history. Humans have operational spacecraft orbiting nine 'worlds' simultaneously!"

Why Panpsychism Is Probably Wrong

Time crystals -- objects whose structure repeats periodically, as with an ordinary crystal, but in time rather than in space -- may exist.

Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified.

It took centuries, but we now know the size of the Universe.

Astronomers Just Found a Mega-Planet With Three Suns

What we need is a universe theory of everything that explains gravity, dark matter, and reunites relativity with quantum mechanics. ~exurb1a

The Universe in 4 Minutes by exurb1a

How far can we go? The limits of humanity, by Kurzgesagt

Measuring the Black Hole 660 Million Times as Massive as Our Sun, at the Center of Galaxy NGC 1332

Universe Likely Has Many Extinct Civilizations

The $100 Million Hunt for Alien Life by Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking

Types of Advanced Civilizations According to the Kardashev Scale

Hubble Peers Into the Heart of the Milky Way Galaxy

What is You and What is Consciousness?

Supermassive black hole the size of 17 billion suns was discovered in galaxy NGC 1600, a surprising part of the universe...

Astronomers have found a star with a 99.9% pure oxygen atmosphere. This strange star Dox is the only of its kind in the known universe.

Aliens: Are We Looking in the Wrong Place? by MinutePhysics

Hubble unveils monster stars with mass 100 times that of our sun in the Tarantula Nebula.

Animaniacs Sing The Universe Song

The largest galaxy ever found IC 1011 is 6 million light years wide. Compare its size with our Milky Way galaxy.

Planet Earth's Cousin Kepler 452b May Contain Life

Five dimensional black hole could 'break' Einstein's theory of general relativity.

'Secret of the universe' gravitational waves detected: Einstein's theory of general relativity was right.

The Last Star in the Universe: Red Dwarfs Explained by Kurzgesagt

wait but why: Putting Time In Perspective

Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet

Scientists prove comets can't explain alien megastructure Dyson Swarm

This millennial Sabrina Pasterski might be the new Einstein.

This is what the entire known Universe looks like in a single image.

What is Something? by Kurzgesagt

Black Holes Only Go Truly Black if They're Really Big

Black Holes Explained from Birth to Death by Kurzgesagt

Time is the History and Future of Everything, by Kurzgesagt

NASA Thermonuclear Art Video of the Sun in 4k Ultra HD

New study finds most earth-like planets are in the future.

Guys, Lots of Signals From Space Seem Like Aliens

What is light? by Kurzgesagt

The strange star that has serious scientists talking about an alien megastructure...

The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy

The likeliest reasons why we haven't contacted aliens are deeply unsettling.

Ten Solutions to the Fermi Paradox

New Horizons Sends Back Stunning Color Images of Pluto

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