It’s never easy making it all the way through Hollywood Week and then getting the boot after your first performance as one of American Idol’s Top 24, but Season 9’s early exits were pretty accepting and gracious. Janell Wheeler, Ashley Rodriguez, Joe Munoz and Tyler Grady spoke to the press about what-ifs, judges, friends, and giving your fans what they want See the original post: American Idol: The First Four Gone Meet The Press

Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to prospect in Sagittarius B2(N), a giant molecular cloud near the center of our Galaxy, some 25,000 light-years from Earth for new, complex molecules in interstellar space that… See the original post:  Searching at Milky Way’s Core for Origins of Life (Weekend Feature)

European astronomers have discovered the smallest planet yet found orbiting another star. The discovery suggests that the Milky Way is full of small-mass planets and that with more time and improved instruments like NASA’s recently launched Kepler satellite, they would.. Original post: Chile’s La Silla Observatory Zeroing in On Earth’s Twin -Earthquake Proof?

This colour-composite image was obtained by the ESO telescope headquarters at La Silla, Chile. This photogenic group of nebulae can be found in Chamaeleon, a constellation visible predominantly in skies south of the Earth’s equator Continued here:  Image of the Day: The "Eyes of Creation"

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Here’s the first satellite images from the ISS of the earthquake off the coast of Chile taken by Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who is currently aboard the International Space Station. It’s not high-res, but they’re still quite stunning. In the.. Read more from the original source:  Chile Earthquake from the ISS (International Space Station)

On the night of July 7th, 1958, the world’s largest wave in recorded history engorged Alaska’s Lituya bay, located about 250 miles west of Juneau in the Gulf of Alaska. It was 1,700 feet, or 520 meters -almost twice the… Read the original post:  Earthquake Triggered the 1,700-Foot Tusnami That Struck Alaska in 1958 -Can It Happen Again?

“The idea that we are the only intelligent creatures in a cosmos of a hundred billion galaxies is so preposterous that there are very few astronomers today who would take it seriously. More here:  "The Great Silence" -Stephen Hawking & Others Look At Why Life Has Yet to be Discovered Beyond Earth (Weekend Feature)

The Helix Nebula is the closest example of a planetary nebula created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star. The Helix Nebula, given a technical designation of NGC 7293, lies about 700 light-years away towards the constellation… See original here: Image of the Day: "The Cosmic Eye" – Helix Nebula (A Weekend Feature)