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(For the Holiday Season, from Christmas through the New Year’s Weekend, we’ll post 2020’s most viewed articles as ranked by Google Analytics.) “If space is truly infinite,” observes Dan Hooper, head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in At the Edge of Time, “the implications are staggering. Within an infinite expanse of space, it would be hard to see any reason why there would not be an infinite number of galaxies, stars, and planets, and even an infinite number of intelligent or conscious beings, scattered throughout this limitless...

>> Dennis Overbye, The New York Times Published: 19 Dec 2020 12:52 PM BdST Updated: 19 Dec 2020 12:52 PM BdST Astronomers find the universe to be a little brighter. ‘There’s something out there unknown.’ (Guy Billout/The New York Times) The universe is a shade too bright. "); } That might be the last news you expected to hear toward the darkening end of a dark year. But that is what a band of astronomers has discovered, using cameras on the New Horizons spacecraft that once visited Pluto to measure the darkness of interplanetary space. “There’s something out there unknown,” sai...

The Galaxy Report newsletter forthcoming on December 24, 2020. I view my role as a curator and creator —a “DJ” of cosmic content. Google’s algorithms extend the reach of our mind. But the thoughtful selection –the creation, curation and editing that goes beyond algorithms– of what’s important in the news of space and science has the capacity to provide clues to the mystery of our existence and add a much needed cosmic perspective in our fraught Anthropocene Epoch. Backstory In 2007, following a career in Silicon Valley as a technology news pioneer, I launched  The Daily Galaxy�...

  In the early 1980’s Israeli physicist Mordehai Milgrom from Weizmann Institute proposed a new theory, “the smoking gun” –a new theory of the universe’s structure that offers the most plausible alternative yet to dark matter– that defied the laws of gravity suggesting that galaxies are governed by modified dynamics rather than obeying the laws of Newton and of general relativity. “This theory became known as MOND for modified Newtonian Dynamics, Milgromian Dynamics, or “modified gravity”–a viable explanation for a cosmological dilemma: that galaxies appear to defy the lo...

Outer space just got a little brighter © Jagyaseni Biswas Outer space just got a little brighter The universe is a shade too bright. That might be the last news you expected to hear toward the darkening end of a dark year. But that is what a band of astronomers has discovered, using cameras on the New Horizons spacecraft that once visited Pluto to measure the darkness of interplanetary space. “There’s something out there unknown,” said Tod Lauer, of the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona. “The universe is not completely dark, and we don’t y...