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[27 Jul 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

The first time I heard about parallel universes was when my friend told me about the M-theory and Ed Witten. That was staggering information because my understanding of “this all” changed rapidly. Actually, I did not really believe in parallel universes because there was no way to prove it. I thought “well, it’s …

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[10 Apr 2008 | One Comment | ]

Sorry for this blogging hiatus. It has been really busy at work lately.
Few days ago I published the results of our March poll in which we asked if you are afraid of comet strikes. Although most people are not afraid of comet strikes, there is a little possibility that a big comet hits …

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[6 Apr 2008 | One Comment | ]

There are huge amounts of ice and steam in the space, but it is not enough. Scientists searching for extraterrestrial life, are also looking for running water, which is the needed element for life to exist. Gas clouds and nebulae of the Milky Way contain trillions and trillions of liters of water. In …

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[23 Mar 2008 | No Comment | ]

Instead of listing the five most important natural scientists, this list generally defines five important natural scientists. It is very difficult to say which scientist is more important than another, so that’s why this list doesn’t put scientists in order. This list defines five natural scientists that have made remarkable findings related to …

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[19 Mar 2008 | 4 Comments | ]

My friend told me that his son came from school and said “Dad, guys at school discussed about multiverse. Do you know what it is“? My friend was not sure and he wanted to ask me because he knows that I write about this kind of things here in HomeboyAstronomy.Com. I said, “see …

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[12 Mar 2008 | No Comment | ]

Megan wrote a nice comment that encouraged me to write another collection of interesting articles in the archives of HomeboyAstronomy.Com. Megan came to this blog from Digg.Com where my article The Top Ten Hubble Images of All Time has received almost 1400 diggs so far. It has been absolutely great to see how …

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[23 Jan 2008 | No Comment | ]

European Southern Observatory has big plans. Their new observatory will be one of the most awesome instruments built on Earth. European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is going to see the first light on 2017. E-ELT is one of the biggest telescopes to be built with its diameter of 42 meters. ESO started planning …

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[17 Jan 2008 | One Comment | ]

Marcus Toivonen is a Finnish man, but not a regular Finnish man. He is the first Finnish man has been closest to the space. Marcus Toivonen is not an astronaut, so how did he got himself to the edge of the space? Read this amazing story of Marcus Toivonen to know how he …

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[23 Nov 2007 | No Comment | ]

There are zillions of great new astronomy findings articles in the Internet. When you start surfing, you quickly find out that there are just too many recent findings articles to read. You cannot get a “big picture” and you just don’t know which astronomy article you should pick up. No worry, I provide …