The latest discovery using direct telescope imaging—that is processing actual light spectrum images--has revealed two newly created large planets circling around a newly formed star an amazing 460 light years away from the earth. This discovery and the knowledge necessary to make it is to me a powerful witness of the Hand of God in our modern world.
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BYU student-driven 1918 dataset details how pandemics spread
Dr. Joe Price and students in his lab will be creating the first-ever dataset of each individual who died in the 1918 pandemic and using this to study the city and county-level interventions that were successful in reducing deaths.
Does the Existence of the Universe Point to a Creator?
The cosmological theory of the “Big Bang,” overwhelmingly dominant in recent decades, suggests that the universe that we know began to exist approximately 13.8 billion years ago. There seem to be two options here: Either nothing caused the known universe to exist, or something cause the known universe to exist. Here are some fascinating things scientists have had to say about a creator's role in that existence.
The Other Christmas Miracle
There has been much talk recently about the star of Bethlehem and what it might have been. But there was another amazing and wondrous celestial event that took place on that fateful night, in an even more distant land a world away that is also worth exploring.
A Very Rare Conjunction of Two Solar System Super Stars
Cloudy the day before and cloudy or partly cloudy again the day after, a beautiful clear day came on December 21, 2020 as my good friend Roger Browne and I tried to get some good views of the Jupiter and Saturn conjunction.
Planetary Conjunctions as Signs of His Coming?
One of the signs in the prophesied sequence that would be used to search for and find the newborn “King of the Jews” would be the quite sudden appearance of “His star in the east.” It is interesting to explore the scientific explanations for such a star and even more interesting to note that one such explanation is happening the night of December 21, this week, and you can see it.
BYU partnering with NASA to send a ‘spacecraft selfie cam’ into space on official mission
After years of engineering, testing and coordinating with engineers from NASA’s Launch Services Program, Brigham Young University students have created a cube satellite that will launch into space on an official NASA mission later this year.
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