Planet Has Four Suns: Amateur Astronomy Finds Tatooine Times Two

Step aside Tatooine. A newfound planet known as PH1 has not two but four suns, scientists announced this week. Odd system is the first discovered by amateur planet hunters. Previously, six other planets had been found circling double stars, but “this is the first planet discovered in a four-star system,” Yale planetary astronomer Megan Schwamb […]

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Johnstown, PA and the great flood of 1889

Johnstown, PA is a little industrial town in Cambria County.  I lived in this community for 4 years while I was in college.  Johnstown is known for it’s steel production, the fact that the movie “Slapshot” was filmed there, and it’s great floods. The worst flood occured May 31st, 1889.  Some of the remanents of […]

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Deepest Ever Hubble View: "History of the Universe in a Single Image"

Famous for dazzling the eye, Hubble may blow a few minds today too, by peering deeper—and therefore farther back in time—than ever before. Go to Source

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