Just in case you're interested, I'm trying to develop a blog with all information relevant for "globular cluster fans": the location...

Well, there's the official history of the flat universe, and, dare I say it, the real history, which has an important social component. Dates are...

In a paper by Adam Riess et al (2004), one of two groups that confirmed the speed up the expansion rate of the universe in 1998, the statement is made "The...

Philip Helbig wrote: quote ..... Why don't you write a paper, submit it to a journal, and post the rejection letter here so that we can see what arguments...

Hi After a discussion with Mr Eric Flesh in the thread "Tales of Cataloguing" I sent the following letter to Mr Hilton Ratcliffe. quote Subject: Do...

Recently I browsed through the preprint gr-qc/0405091 where Moffat talks about nonsymmetric gravitational theory. Anyway I don't know much about the details of...

A new A&A paper, arXiv:1203.7132, "The distance to NGC 1316 (Fornax A): yet another curious case" uses "surface brightness fluctuations" (this is shear,...

I was just browsing through transparencies of this year's SLAC summer school transprancies on Cosmology which are online...

I have decided to take two hours away from dead island and do something equally productive with my time: test the numerology of Robert Oldershaw. Exhibit...

NASA (JPL) publishes a press release about this cluster of galaxies that is 9.6 billion years away. In the press release NASA points out that it is a VERY...

On Mon, 15 Sep 14 20:17:26 GMT, Phillip Helbig wrote: writes: As a gedankenexperiment, let's look at two mathematical spheres, one ...

This post continues other data points in this discussion group. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060608_galaxy_cluster.html "Located nearly 10 billion...

Massive dead disk galaxy challenges theories of galaxy evolution https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170621145150.htm This galaxy (3 times the mass...

hallo! As part of my semester thesis at the Institute of Theoretical Physics (I am computer science student at ETH Zuerich) I wrote a visualization tool for...

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25180 https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01860 -- jt]] Here we report observations of the quasar ULAS J134208.10+092838.61...

Three days ago (4/10) I posted the below article under the same thread title to sci.astro, but nobody there could give me a decent answer. So now I am posting...

On pg 18 (2nd para) of the preprint mentioned above, Turner and Freedman remark: "apparently a special beginning is required. There are two ways to read this:...

Arthur C.Clarke popularized the notion of drawing a cable from a geosynchronous satellite to the Earth and then using it as an elevator cable. In real life...

Looking down on the Milky Way from the north galactic pole, our galaxy rotates clockwise. For a planet in the solar system, the corresponding rotation would...

The standard paradigm for the cosmos is composed of 3 main parts: (1) the standard model of particle physics, (2) the standard Big Bang model, and (3) the...