¶ The Paragraph

2007-11-30: Yesterday NASA and the European Space Agency released a nice picture of galaxy M74 composed from data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 & 2005.x40 The galaxy is in Pisces, about 32 million light years away, and is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way, but a bit smaller. A […]

Wind sweeps the North American High Plains, drying up the scant rain water30×31. But there is water enough for short grasses to flourish, and over the ages they have fed the hardy buffalo, whose massive herds “darkened the plains32“. “[The High Plains is] almost wholly unfit for cultivation,” wrote Major Stephen H. Long […]

Last week astronomers published the discovery of something never seen before – a double helix nebula, which they found near the center of the Milky Way1. Astronomers took a picture of the nebula (shown below) using the Spitzer infrared space telescope, one of NASA’s four “great observatories”, each of which detects a different radiation […]

In 1783 Rev. John Mitchell put forth the idea of a dark star, one with such gravity that light could not escape it1. But after Thomas Young showed that light acts as a wave, rather than particles, the idea lay dormant for more than a century. In 1916, on the heels of Albert […]

Mainstream science holds that the burning of fossil fuels is causing the earth to warm rapidly. A scientist published that idea in 18981, and through accelerated study it became a consensus by 19962. Only a few scientists still hold that current global warming is due to a natural cause17, but their voices have […]