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Friday, June 24, 2022

2 Black Holes Merging... Supposedly

The first direct observation of gravitational waves captured the merging of 2 black holes which emitted 36 septillion yottawatts of power (3.6×10⁴⁹ watts), greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe https://t.co/s1T5uNB2gB pic.twitter.com/qdcHbcE0rO
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 24, 2022

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Andromeda Galaxy

Mind-blowing!

A zoom out of the sharpest view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever, showing more than 100 million stars!

(Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / video by Universal-Sci) pic.twitter.com/Qvdimr4MiG
— World and Science (@WorldAndScience) November 24, 2021

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Not an Actual Photo

We’ve caught a black hole devouring a neutron star for the first time https://t.co/pvqNX2sXNm pic.twitter.com/Cu2jc8vvlF
— New Scientist (@newscientist) June 29, 2021

But will this be acknowledged by low-intelligence readers?

Wednesday, June 02, 2021

The Milky Way

It's a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, depicting billions of stars and countless black holes in the center, or heart, of the Milky Way. https://t.co/5XLck6sSYk
— 12 News (@12News) May 30, 2021

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Creation

Rebecca Cross on the creation of the universe in issue 106:

"The first moment
is this moment, this one right now. There is
nothing but me."https://t.co/o1tUnIsIIw
— Image_Journal (@Image_Journal) December 29, 2020

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Saturn's Rings

New, very new. https://t.co/NYtPPHLlut
— Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) November 22, 2020

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Baryonic Matter

https://t.co/Y7c1LW1YQm
— CSIRO (@CSIRO) May 28, 2020

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Wolfe Disk Galaxy

Astronomers discover ancient galaxy that was already the shape of a giant disc 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang https://t.co/e91HWYuQW3
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) May 20, 2020

NRAO news

TBT for the Patriarchate of Rome

Pius XII listening to Father George Lamaître explaining to him his "Big Bang" theory. pic.twitter.com/upWfpaII6k
— elizabeta ugarska (@enchanteeq) May 19, 2020

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Georges Lemaître's Science, Faith, and Why "Hubble's Law" Ought to be Renamed

Friday, October 12, 2018

CWR: Prominent Catholic astronomers discuss the proposed “Hubble-Lemaître Law” by Justin McClain, O.P.
“Hubble and Lemaître brought different and complementary insights to what would come to be known as Hubble’s law — Hubble the observations, and Lemaître the model of the cosmos that obeys that law. But Lemaître got there first.”