Google News Without The Nonsense - Top Astronomy News - Top Space Mission News - Top Science News - Top News - Factual

After you search - scroll down to below the ads to see the search results - and you can choose to sort the news by Date or by Relevance, defaults to Date. Try by Relevance if the search results don't seem very relevant to your search term.

Searches top quality news written by astronomers. Also, none of the sites included have autoplay ads or popup ads. You may prefer to search by date - choose in drop down that appears above, after you do your first search.

For the list of sites and to suggest a site, go to my post: New: Top Astronomy News by Robert Walker on Debunking Doomsday

This image is based on the Cosmic Horeshoe in the constellation Leo imaged by the Hubble deep field. It's a fun example of gravitational lensing letting us peer at a distant galaxy that we could not see in detail without this happy accident. I thought it was a nice visual analogy for google custom searches.

The foreground galaxy LRG 3 - 757 in the center is 5.2 billion light years away and a hundred times more massive than our galaxy. As a result it bends light and by gravitational lensing lets us peer at an extremely distant galaxy 10.3 billion light years away.