Amazing sights and facts about our universe. What is really out there in the vastness of space?

Following on from this posting: http://www.securitronlinux.com/uncategorized/amazing-facts-about-the-universe-we-live-in/, here is another post about the amazing universe we inhabit. One amazing sight in the universe is the Neutron Star. This is a stellar body that is about 20 kilometers in diameter and has 1000 billion times the gravity of the Earth. This would have the ability to bend … Read more

Strange icicles on the edges of Saturns rings. I thought that they were made up of trillions of particles.

What are these massive icicles doing on the edges of Saturn`s rings? I thought that the rings were made up of trillions of lumps of ice. I guess the edge of the rings is a solid ring. That would be very cool. I wonder if you could build a base on it. This adds to … Read more

Giant structures in space swallowing distant galactic clusters. Is this another Universe?

Astronomers have made an amazing discovery, a group of 10,000 distant galaxy clusters that are rushing towards the same point in the sky. The implications of this is that there are unimaginably large structures in the distant areas of the Universe that are beyond our sight. The visible Universe is only 14 billion light-years across … Read more