PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and a European Southern Observatory ground-based telescope tracked the growth of a giant early-spring storm in Saturn’s northern hemisphere that is so powerful it stretches around the entire planet. The rare storm has been wreaking havoc for months and shooting plumes of gas high… Read more“Cassini and Telescope See Violent Saturn Storm”
Day: May 22, 2011
Dark Energy and Gravity – Yin and Yang of the Universe
Astronomers think that the expansion of the universe is regulated by both the force of gravity, which acts to slow it down, and a mysterious dark energy, which pushes matter and space apart. In fact, dark energy is thought to be pushing the cosmos apart at faster and faster speeds,… Read more“Dark Energy and Gravity – Yin and Yang of the Universe”