Black Holes This Ridiculously Speedy Star Might Be Running Away from a Rare, Unproven Type of Black Holespace.com - Brandon Specktor Astronomers have discovered a bright, young star that is running away from home. Why? What did the star's parents do to deserve this? According to a …
The close-up of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope shows how many stars there really are. https://t.co/VM4WXGJ3mFtwitter.com
Play button Extremely powerful cosmic rays are raining down on us. No one knows where they come from.Vox - Brian ResnickYou may think the greatest, most perplexing mysteries of the universe exist way out there, at the edge of a black hole, or inside an exploding star. No, great mysteries of the universe surround us, all
Black Holes Star-Swallowing Black Holes Reveal Secrets in Exotic Light ShowsQuanta Magazine - Joshua Sokol Black holes occasionally reveal themselves when passing stars get ripped apart by their gravity. These tidal disruption events have created a new way …
ESA Science & Technology: Gaia untangles the starry strings of the Milky Wayesa.int Rather than leaving home young, as expected, stellar 'siblings' prefer to stick together in long-lasting, string-like groups, finds a new study of …
Universe One Number Shows Something Is Fundamentally Wrong with Our Conception of the Universe | Live ScienceLive Science There's a puzzling mystery going on in the universe. Measurements of the rate of cosmic expansion using different methods keep turning up disagreeing …
Gravitational Waves Gravitational waves could settle mystery of the universe's expansion | New Scientistnewscientist.com - By Stuart Clark Cosmologists can’t agree on how fast the universe is expanding because the two different methods they use to find out give distinctly different …
Dark Energy May Be Incompatible With String TheoryQuanta Magazine - Natalie Wolchover A controversial new paper argues that universes with dark energy profiles like ours do not exist in the “landscape” of universes allowed by string …
Science Astronomers probably just saw a black hole swallow a dead starNational Geographic - Michael GreshkoRipples in the fabric of spacetime reveal what may be a first-of-its-kind cosmic collision. Some 900 million years ago, a black hole released a terrible belch that echoed through the cosmos. On August
Scientists stunned after spotting record-shattering supernovabgr.com - Mike Wehner Scientists have a pretty good handle on the life cycle of various stars. They know the types of stars that are likely to die in fiery supernova …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Synopsis: Seeking Stardust in the Snowaps.org Iron-60 found in fresh Antarctic snow was forged in nearby supernovae and could help deduce the structure and origin of interstellar dust …
Space There Will Be Great Views of Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon This WeekendPopular Mechanics - By Elizabeth GulinoThe celestial bodies will be in alignment this weekend only. Starting this Friday, August 9, you'll be able to see Jupiter, Saturn, and the moon all align side-by-side across the sky through Sunday, August
Galaxies Scientists Just Found 39 Ancient GalaxiesPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanThey all used to be connected through supermassive black holes. Combining the strength of various observatories spanning the globe and off-planet space telescopes, scientists have discovered 39 previously
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We May Have Identified What Lies at the Outermost Edge of Our Solar SystemVICEIn July 2015, the New Horizons probe became the first spacecraft to explore Pluto and its moons after a nearly decade-long journey from Earth. Three years later, New Horizons continues to uncover mysteries
Mysteries of the Local Void: Scientists Map a Vast Emptiness Around the Milky Wayspace.com - Passant Rabie Astronomers mapped out the Local Void — an extensive, empty region of space that borders the Milky Way — revealing new details about the structure of …
Found: Oldest known stars in our galaxyNational Geographic - Nadia Drake“They are as old as the oldest stars in the universe,” astronomers report. Some of the twinkling stars that spangle Earth’s skies are relics from the earliest beginnings of the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers
'Renegade' White Dwarf Survived a Supernova. Now It's Warping the Little Dipper Before Our Eyes.space.com - Brandon Specktor There's a rebellious, half-dead star in the Little Dipper that's hellbent on escaping our galaxy — and now, astronomers have an idea why. The star, a …
This Is How We Know There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The Universesubstack.com When you gaze up at the night sky, through the veil of stars and the plane of the Milky Way close by, you can’t help but feel small before the grand …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDark Matter As the Hunt Drags Out, Physicists Start Searching for the Lightest Dark Matterdiscovermagazine.com The Large Underground Xenon experiment in South Dakota is one of many projects searching for dark matter and coming up empty. (Credit: LUX …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo The Milky Way Has Battle Scars from Colliding With a Ghostly Galaxydiscovermagazine.com Our Milky Way, shown here in an artist's concept, has strange "ripples" in its outlying regions. New research indicates those ripples were caused by …
How Did This Black Hole Get So Big So Fast?medium.com - Ethan Siegel Out in the extremities of the distant Universe, the earliest quasars can be found. Supermassive black holes at the centers of young galaxies …
Carbon plays a starring role in the new book ‘Symphony in C’sciencenews.org - Sid Perkins In Symphony in C, geophysicist Robert Hazen explores carbon’s ancient origins, its role in life and its importance in the modern world.
Stephen Hawking Was Right: Black Holes Can Evaporate, Weird New Study Showsspace.com - Meredith Fore In 1974, Stephen Hawking made one of his most famous predictions: that black holes eventually evaporate entirely. According to Hawking's theory, black …
Space Weather Space weather affects your daily life. It’s time to start paying attention.MIT Technology Review - Erin Winick Meet the space-weather forecaster leading the charge to help us understand solar flares and geomagnetic storms before it’s too late. Holed up in a …
Galaxies Monsters in the darkaeon.co - Matthew Bothwell The Universe's biggest galaxies could hold the key to the birth of the cosmos. Why are these behemoths so hard to find?By Matthew BothwellRead at Aeon
