Naos, the closest supergiant blu star
Zeta Puppis, also known as Naos, is a supergiant blue star visible in the constellation of the Stern, about 1000…
AR Scorpii: White dwarf punishes red dwarf with electron beams at relativistic speeds
Astronomers used ESO’s Very Large Telescope and other telescopes both on the ground and in space, and discovered a new…
Key points You MUST Know From Just-Released IPCC Climate Change Report
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s first major scientific assessment since 2014, released Monday, shows unequivocally that global warming…
ASASSN-15lh: superluminous event explained by rotating black hole “swallowing” star
This artist print shows a Sun-like star near a fast-rotating supermassive black hole with a mass about 100 million times…
Dancing Ghosts: A New, Deeper Sky Scan Offers Surprises to Astronomers
Examining recent telescope data, we saw two ghosts dancing in the depths of the cosmos. We had never seen…
Perseid meteors are already beginning to fall in a display that promises to dazzle skywatchers
The Perseid meteor shower will peak on the evening of Aug. 12, just four days after the new moon on…
Cosmic rarity: researchers identify the most massive star
STAR RMC 136a1 RMC 136a1 or R136a1 is a Wolf-Rayet star at the center of the star cluster RCM 136,…
Nearby Dusty Galaxy Shines in Hubble Photo
A dusty galaxy neighboring our Milky Way galaxy glows bright and bright in an eye-catching new Hubble Space Telescope photo….
A Big Mistake Triggered The 50-Year “Gates Of Hell” Blaze
“You’re only human” is a phrase used to excuse all manner of sins. But some human errors carry greater, longer-lasting…
GEOMETRIC RESONANCE
In physics, resonance is the phenomenon in which a vibratory system or external force causes another system to oscillate with…