Starship Asterisk*

When APOD began in 1995, the subject matter was pure astronomy and it was aimed largely at professional astronomers. APOD's remit now is far wider, in terms of both the material included and the intended audience. This makes for a very interesting and diverse set of images that I otherwise would nev...

I hate to put the dampers on the recent Nobel Prize announcement, but let's not forget that supernova studies of cosmology are all based on a theory (Einstein's General Relativity) that has huge problems - as demonstrated by Zwicky in the 1930s, Rubin et al in the 1970s, and continually since. Inste...