Remarkable symmetry at center of 120,000 light-year-diameter Messier 109

Remarkable symmetry at center of 120,000 light-year-diameter Messier 109

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION]  / Bob Franke Beautiful barred spiral galaxy M109, 109th entry in Charles Messier’s famous catalog of bright Nebulae and Star Clusters, is found just below the Big Dipper’s bowl in the northern constellation Ursa Major. In telescopic views, its striking central bar gives the galaxy the appearance of the […]

Boston bombing suspect wrote in boat that he looked forward to joing his brother in paradise

Boston bombing suspect wrote in boat that he looked forward to joing his brother in paradise

In a note found scrawled on the inside of the boat in which he was hiding at the time of his arrest, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, claimed responsibility for the chilling April 15 attack, dismissed victims as “collateral damage” and looked forward to joining his dead older brother in paradise. Billed part suicide […]

German homeschool family loses asylum case in U.S.

German homeschool family loses asylum case in U.S.

A U.S. appeals court sided with the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday and denied asylum for the Romeikes. They fled from Germany after they were threatened with the possibility of losing custody of their children when they decided to homeschool and refused to send their children to the German public schools. The Sixth Circuit Court […]

Freeze frame miracle: Venus, moon, clouds, birds

Freeze frame miracle: Venus, moon, clouds, birds

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION] /  Isaac Gutiérrez Pascual Sometimes the sky above can become quite a show…. In the above image taken in Spain, a crescent Moon and the planet Venus, on the far right, were captured during sunset posing against a deep blue sky.   In the foreground, dark storm clouds loom across […]

Human consciousness in the hours after death

Human consciousness in the hours after death

Sam Parnia practices resuscitation medicine. In other words, he helps bring people back from the dead — and some return with stories. … “The evidence we have so far is that human consciousness does not become annihilated,” said Parnia, a doctor at Stony Brook University Hospital and director of the school’s resuscitation research program. “It […]