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Universe
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James Webb Telescope’s Newest Find Suggests We’ve Misunderstood The Universe
16 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
This might be the only time that a mistake in understanding is considered exciting.
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Scientists Have Been Left Baffled After A Seriously Powerful Beam Of Cosmic Energy Hit Earth
24 Nov 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
A beam of cosmic energy so powerful that it carried the equivalent of hundreds of billions of volts of electricity hit Earth in 2021 and scientists are mystified by this for a couple of reasons.
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Make Yourself Feel Really Puny With NASA’s New Black Hole Video
03 May 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Black holes are so massive that not even light can escape, which is how you know you’re basically nothing in comparison.
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The James Webb Telescope Is At It Again
14 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The latest showcase is of the Orion Nebula, a star nursery located 1 350 light-years from Earth in the Orion constellation, now revealed in incredible detail.
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Ever Wondered What A Supermassive Black Hole Sounds Like? You’re In Luck [Video]
23 Aug 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
NASA released the first track of the void, in a listenable form fit for human ears, and it really is rather unsettling.
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Power Of The James Webb Space Telescope Summed Up In A Single GIF
27 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The JWST views light in the infrared spectrum – on Earth, we can feel infrared light as heat – which allows the instrument to see far, far more of the universe.
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Astronomers Pinpoint Incredible Discoveries Via James Webb Space Telescope [Images]
21 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Sifting through the public James Webb Space Telescope datasets, stargazers across the planet have been hard at work.
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Latest Round Of Incredible Images From James Webb Space Telescope
13 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The first image was shown to the world on Monday, but little did we know that NASA would be releasing other amazing photos from the first batch throughout yesterday.
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Here It Is: First Image From $10 Billion James Webb Space Telescope
12 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The James Webb Space Telescope shows us a version of the universe that is chock-a-block with galaxies, some ranging back to an unimaginable time.
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Our Favourite Shots From The 2022 Astronomy Photographer Of The Year Shortlist
05 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The 2022 shortlisted images are nothing short of spectacular, from a mesmerising moonrise moment over an ancient English tower to a surreal shot of the Milky Way above the highest highway in the world.
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Stunning Shots From The Astronomy Photo Awards
22 Sep 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The competition has been running for 13 years out of The Royal Observatory Greenwich, with more than 4 500 entries this year.
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A South African Telescope Just Discovered 20 New Galaxies
07 Jul 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has been hard at work uncovering a large galaxy group, which is likely the most neutral hydrogen gas-rich group ever discovered.
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How Can The Universe Expand, If There Was Nothing There Before?
19 Apr 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Ask the general public to answer this question – the universe is expanding, but what is it expanding into? – and you’ll get a very mixed bag of responses.
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Dark Matter, The Structure Of The Universe, And Exoplanets – Three Winners Of The Nobel Prize In Physics
09 Oct 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
The winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics “painted a picture of a universe far stranger and more wonderful than we ever could have imagined”.
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Space Peeps Freak Out At First Pics From SA’s ‘World Leading Telescope’
18 Jul 2016 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Up in the Northern Cape there’s a massive telescope project being built, and it just released some epic photographs of the universe.
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Apple’s Ad For The New iPad Pro [Video]
10 Nov 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Apple’s latest campaign for its newest product promises to show you the universe.
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Let Me Explain The Universe To You – By Seth Rotherham
20 Aug 2015 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
When I started 2oceansvibe 13 years ago, I didn’t have a plan. I didn’t know I would one-day have half a million readers every month and sponsors and a successful business. But I knew something would come of it. As it ‘bizarrely’ always does..
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Detailed Image Of Ancient Universe Unveiled
22 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The European Space Agency (ESA) revealed on Thursday that our Universe is 80 to 100 million years older than previously thought, via a detailed map of the most ancient light in the cosmos. ESA’s Planck satellite took a 50-million pixel, all sky snapshot of the radiation left over from the Big Bang. Director general of […]
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Why Exactly Are We Spending R1,9 Billion On Telescopes?
28 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A staggering R1,9 billion has been allocated over three years for the The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and MeerKAT radio telescope projects. That is a lot of money on a project that South Africans don’t understand. According to the Square Kilometre Array website, the SKA is not the average telescope system. Rather than filtering light waves […]
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NASA Releases Infrared Map Of Entire Universe [PIC]
05 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Have you ever wondered what the universe would look like on a single photo? You did!? Well, what a coincidence, because NASA has just released this infrared map of the entire universe. This serves as a capstone for a bigger cosmic map – containing 18 000 images and 560 million different objects. It took NASA fourteen years of preparation and three years of data collection.
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YOUR PARTY WILL BE VERY, VERY, VERY SMALL THIS WEEKEND
23 Sep 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
The Pale Blue Dot Carl Sagan is a deceased astronaut astronomer. And that miniscule blue dot inside the blue circle is Earth. He is one of the few people to have ever existed who could claim to have pondered global events with a truly broad perspective. When you’ve considered the earth from 6,1 billion miles […]
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