the observers hunch

Welcome to my first post for threesigmaresult! I've chosen to redo a post that previously appeared on my other blog, theobservershunch ,...

Head over to Space.com for a story about the dark side of our well behaved galaxy's nature, its being throwing its weight around and gen...

On Friday we had the latest of the Durham Astronomy groups Friday Lunchtime Talks, these usually consist of two members of the group (which ...

Yesterday I asked for some more examples of crank emails, this morning I found about 15 in my inbox, a big shout out to CMB for sending his...

Here is an image that the ICCmofos had on their door a while back, showing distances to objects stretching from the Core of the Earth to t...

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a view of the distant Universe, at a time before the influence of Dark Energy began to be felt, we think. I th...

According to this story from space.com the SDSS has found 8 more dwarf galaxies in the local group. Seven of which appear to be satellites ...

In the previous post we saw how in certain circumstances it is possible to explain supposedly missing mass in terms of standard physics. I...

I am often asked what an astronomer does and what the main problems facing astronomy are today. The first question is easily answered, an as...