John H. WoffordScience In China, a Telescope Offers Cosmic Data Amid Earthly Tensions verified_publisherUndark Magazine - Sarah Scoles The country’s Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope will operate in a scientifically tense climate. In the hills of China’s Guizhou …
John H. WoffordPhysics 'Dark sirens' could solve one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology space.com - Adam Mann In recent years, cosmologists have been faced with a crisis: The universe is expanding, but no one can agree on how fast it's moving away from …
John H. WoffordMilky Way Galaxy Astronomers detect a bright-blue bridge of stars, and it’s about to blow Live Science - Ben Turner It's an entirely new region of the Milky Way. Astrophysicists have found a new region of the Milky Way, and it's filled with searingly hot, …
John H. Wofford1:02Videos This Decades-Old Idea About Venus is Disproven After a Lucky Discovery theamazelabResearchers have discovered Venus' atmosphere is different than originally thought, which could change how we look at exoplanet atmospheres. “We’re still learning fundamental things about Venus and its...
John H. WoffordCarbon We are made of stardust that comes from farther away than we could ever imagine verified_publisherSYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne If the stuff of stars runs through our veins, then where did all our stardust come from? This isn’t really an existential question. We are …
John H. WoffordAsteroids A half million years ago, Antarctica was hit by a blowtorch from space verified_publisherSYFY WIRE - Phil Plait Sometime a bit less than a half million years ago, a decent-sized asteroid impacted over Antarctica. But it didn't hit the ground. Instead, it …
John H. WoffordJames Webb Space Telescope If this scientist is right, we’re going to find aliens very soon bgr.com - Mike Wehner People were dreaming of the day when we might finally discover an alien civilization long before we had the kind of telescope technology that do …
John H. WoffordArecibo Observatory The Collapse of Puerto Rico’s Iconic Telescope verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Daniel AlarcónThe uncertain future of the Arecibo Observatory, and the end of an era in space science. Just before eight in the morning on December 1st of last year, Ada Monzón was at the Guaynabo studios of WAPA, television...
John H. WoffordJellyfish Astronomers see a ghostly 'radio jellyfish' rise from the dead in the southern sky space.com - Brandon Specktor Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the universe bound together by gravity. They can contain thousands of galaxies, enormous oceans of hot …
John H. WoffordExtinction An Exploding Star 65 Light-Years Away From Earth May Have Triggered a Mass Extinction verified_publisherScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill Life was trying, but it wasn't working out. As the Late Devonian period dragged on, more and more living things died out, culminating in one of the …
John H. WoffordEarth Science Scientists discover X-rays coming from Uranus verified_publisherDigital Trends - By Georgina Torbet For the first time, researchers have discovered X-rays being emitted by the planet Uranus. The X-rays were detected using the NASA Chandra X-ray …
John H. WoffordSpace NASA's Juno spacecraft detects strange new auroras on Jupiter space.com - Samantha Mathewson NASA's Juno mission has detected new auroral emissions on Jupiter which appear to ripple over the planet's poles. The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) …
John H. WoffordGalaxies Astronomers discover new galaxy clusters hiding right in front of us TechSpot - Shawn Knight In brief: Astronomers at MIT have discovered previously unidentified galaxy clusters that were overlooked by earlier studies. Their results, which …
John H. WoffordEarth Science Scientists have measured the core of Mars (and found something unexpected) sciencefocus.com - Ian Taylor The NASA InSight mission measures "Marsquakes" and could reveal secrets about the Red Planet and the evolution of our Solar System. Scientists have, …
John H. WoffordUniverse Putting unfathomable astronomical distances into human perspective universal-sci.com - Universal-Sci Many of us tend to ponder about the universe when looking at the night sky on a beautiful evening. We all know the type of questions that emerge …
John H. WoffordTelescopes Remote Northern California site gets huge upgrade to search for alien life SFGate - Amy GraffE.T. could be phoning, and Earth will soon be better equipped to hear him: A collection of radio telescopes built in a remote Northern California valley to look for alien broadcasts is getting an upgrade....
John H. WoffordExoplanets How can some planets be hotter than stars? We've started to unravel the mystery. space.com - Quentin Changeat Billy Edwards, Project Scientist of the Twinkle Space Mission, Research Fellow of Astronomy, UCL Until the early 2000s, the only known planets were …
John H. WoffordSpace Science Here are an astronaut’s favorite photos of Earth taken from space verified_publisherDigital Trends - By Georgina Torbet Seeing our planet from orbit is, by all accounts, a truly remarkable experience. There’s even a phenomenon called the overview effect in which seeing …
John H. WoffordSpace Listen to the sound of a nebula with the space data sonification project verified_publisherDigital Trends - By Georgina Torbet When it comes to sharing information about distant space objects, the first thing that comes to mind for most people is the beautiful images captured …
John H. WoffordJellyfish Strange, Distant Space Object Is Sending Out Ultra-Low Frequency Radio Signals verified_publisherfuturism.com Researchers say the object looks like a cosmic jellyfish. The USS Jellyfish Researchers have detected ultra-low radio frequencies being emitted from a …
John H. WoffordScience Faint galaxies light up the dark web filling the cosmos nature.com Dim, distant collections of stars hint at the early evolution of the Universe. 25 March 2021 A rare breed of acrobatic bunny enables a giant leap in …
John H. WoffordAliens We should study 'dead' alien worlds, and maybe (carefully) seed them with life Live Science - Adam Mann Life finds a way. The search for life in the universe tends to focus on habitable environments. But to answer questions about how life emerged and …
John H. Wofford1:00Videos British astrophotographer captures spectacular time lapses of the night sky (RAW) SWNSThis incredible British astrophotographer has taken some of the most amazing time lapse images of the night sky ever captured on film. Nathan O'Looney, 23, captures incredible footage wherever he can locations...
John H. WoffordHydrogen A Star Just Exploded in The Sky, And It Is Easy to Observe verified_publisherScienceAlert - Michelle Starr According to reports in The Astronomer's Telegram, a star in the region of the constellation of Cassiopeia has just gone nova, and the glow is still …
John H. WoffordScience World's oldest meteor crater isn't what it seems Live Science - Harry Baker New controversial claim suggests it's not a meteor crater at all. The world's oldest meteor impact crater is not a crater at all, say scientists of a …
John H. Wofford1:22Videos Experts May Have Just Figured Out Interstellar Navigation theamazelab There’s no Google maps in space, but astronomers may have just figured out how to navigate anyways.
John H. WoffordSpace Hubble captures seasonal weather changes on Saturn verified_publisherDigital Trends - By Georgina Torbet Earth isn’t the only planet with seasons: Other planets in our solar system like Saturn also have seasons, either because their axes are titled …
John H. WoffordGalaxies Photographer Spends 12 Years, 1250 Hours, Exposing Photo of Milky Way petapixel.com - Michael Zhang Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio has released a Milky Way photo that took him nearly 12 years to create. The 1.7-gigapixel image has a …
John H. Wofford Stars Apparently Used to Be Way, Way, Way Bigger verified_publisherfuturism.com Researchers say they're responsible for the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies. Supermassive Black Holes Researchers have found …
