The legend is that when Galileo was forced to recant in front of the Inquisition in 1633 that the earth moves round the sun, he was heard to mutter eppur si muove or 'nonetheless, it moves'.
After a year in which climate scientists have been subjected to a tsunami of ignorant comment and abuse, it's worth recalling RealClimate's updated version of that line, eppure si riscalda, or 'and yet it still warms', which was accompanied by a link to this stark NASA graph above.
See Galileo links at Ashden Directory, and the Telegraph.
Gargantuan black hole may be a remnant from the dawn of the universe
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Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass
of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope – now
simulat...
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