From what I have read, it seems that our universe is expected to function more or less as it does now for some 1012 years, possibly more. If that is correct, our universe's current age of 14 billion years seems like this place we live in is still a baby, or at most a child.
From what I have read, it seems that our universe is expected to function more or less as it does now for some $10^{12}$ years, possibly more. If that is correct, our universe's current age of $14$
At the earth's rate of decay or entropy, it would seem to me that if the universe was as old as many postulate, that it should be in a much worse state of decay than it currently is.
The evolutionary story requires millions and billions of years, and most people assume that scientific dating has conclusively proved such ages. However, most dating methods yield age estimates that are much too young for the evolutionary story, even given uniformitarian assumptions.1 These...
It’s official. Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) has the largest nucleus ever seen in a comet. The gargantuan comet was discovered in the fall of 2021, and in January 2022, astronomers turned the Hubble Space Telescope to ascertain more details and determine the exact size. NASA said...
The stars you see at night can possibly be illusions, or that they are not as many as they actually are. This happens through a process called gravitational lens or gravitational lensing. It is also one of the consequences of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. A celestial object...
NGC 2023, is an emission and reflection nebula in the equatorial constellation of Orion. It was discovered by the German-born astronomer William Herschel on 6 January 1785. This reflection nebula is one of the largest in the sky,[4] with a size of 10 × 10 arcminutes.[3] It is located at a distance of 1,300 ly (400 pc) from the Sun, and is positioned ~15′ to the northeast of the Horsehead Nebula.