Light Pollution is Worse Than You Think

Many observatories are now threatened by a very real pollution problem.   A problem that could make many of today's best visible light observatories useless in a matter of a few decades!  This pollution is an easily avoided problem of too much night time light pollution.

Check out the video on this worsening problem and steps that are being taken to preserve the night time sky......

Oldest Super Nova Explosion discovered

From the Daily Galaxy magazine:

• Astronomers have discovered the oldest and farthest supernova ever detected -- a massive star that exploded 11 billion years ago.
• Prior to this discovery, NASA’s Swift Observatory had detected a 13-billion-year-old gamma-ray burst.... but this latest discovery marks the first confirmation of a full-on star explosion.

First thing this shows is that the first 2 billion years, the Universe was a VERY busy place. It was a hot dense and inhospitable as you could imagine.