Blogs Posts in Cosmogony category; 23 blog posts

A New Cosmology

A new one? What s the old one? Cosmology, from the Greek, cosmologia-order and logos (word, reason, plan) is study of the Universe in its totality! So we think as though we know it all? By extension then the conclusions are humanity' [...]

Posted On : Sep, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

What is The Buddhist View of Cosmology?

There is no single sutra that describes the entire structure of the universe. However, there are several sutras in Buddhism that describe other worlds and states of beings that occupy them. There are other sutras that describe the origin [...]

Posted On : May, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Astronomycal claims

Clearly imagination must be the source from which astronomy•cal theories are developed about the cosmos that surround us. But according to Sagan, skepticism is the very tool to keep things in check, helping to filter out the fant [...]

Posted On : Jun, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

Vedic Cosmogony

Some segments of the Veda acknowledged as science are expected to be brought out shortly as a book titled “Vedic Cosmogony” and a small excerpt (RV 10.149) could be downloaded from here. It is believed that some of the hymns [...]

Posted On : Mar, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

A Veil Runs Through It: A Mormon Cosmogony

The Earth we perceive with our physical eyes is billions of years in age. Life began to inhabit this sphere eons ago and evolved to fill the world through a process of natural selection. Several millions of years ago the ancestors of huma [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Cosmologists 'See' The Cosmic Dawn

The Cosmic Dawn began as galaxies began to form out of the debris of massive stars which died explosively shortly after the beginning of the Universe. The Durham calculation predicts where these galaxies appear and how they evolve to the pr [...]

Posted On : Feb, 12 2009 | Comments : 0

The Cultural Divide, in Cosmology and Life

The title of “Dark Matter,” a melodrama set in academia, is both a scientific concept and a blunt metaphor. Technically, it refers to a form of matter that makes up most of the universe but can’t be directly observed. Ap [...]

Posted On : Apr, 14 2008 | Comments : 0

Stormy Cloud Of Star Birth Glows In New Spitzer Image

A dusty stellar nursery shines brightly in a new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope formally known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility. Spitzer’s heat sensing “infrared Eyes” have pierced the veiled core [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2008 | Comments : 0

The Growing Up Of A Star

Using ESO’s very large telescope Interferometer, astronomers have probed the inner parts of the disc of material surrounding a young stellar object, witnessing how it gains its mass before becoming an adult. The astronomers had a clos [...]

Posted On : Feb, 04 2008 | Comments : 0

Astronomy brings Ariz. economy $250M a year

The sun, moon, stars and all the galaxies are showering Arizona with about $250 million in benefits a year. That's the estimated annual economic boost that the astronomy, planetary and space science fields bring to the state from salaries, [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2008 | Comments : 0

Three New Exo-Planets Discovered

The UK’s leading team of planet hunting astronomers, The Wide Angle Search for Planets. (WASP) has announced the discovery of three new planets. These extra-solar planets were seen to pass in front of, or transit, their h [...]

Posted On : Jan, 07 2008 | Comments : 0

Koreshan Application Of Geodesy

GEODESY is the application of mechanical and other means for the purpose of determining measurements of the earth's surface, including not only that of its general contour as to whether it is concave, flat, or convex, but also of demonstrat [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2007 | Comments : 0

Uranus' Natural Satellites (Uranus has 27 Known Moons)

Moon gives us its distant light and cool, wintry nights when we feel cold and romantic whenever with our partners on a seaside walk or even an hours drive but has anyone thought that when was the moon discovered?&nb [...]

Posted On : Nov, 14 2007 | Comments : 0

Striking new image from Chandra

At a distance of about 20,000 light-years, G292.0+1.8 is one of only three supernova remnants in the Milky Way known to contain large amounts of oxygen. The image shows a rapidly expanding, intricately structured, debris field that contai [...]