After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing.
I'm sitting in a dark hotel room on the eve of my first - and possibly only - total solar eclipse, with my partner and step-son, and I am positively awash with emotions....
Cosmic cleaners: the scientists scouring English cathedral roofs for space dust ( www.theguardian.com )
Are we living in a baby universe that looks like a black hole to outsiders? ( lemmy.sdf.org )
Our Universe appears to be expanding and cooling, having originated some 13.8 billion years ago in a hot Big Bang. However, it's plausible that what we see from inside our Universe is simply the result of being inside a black hole that formed from some parent Universe. If the black holes that form in our cosmos give birth to...