Human Decision-Making in Climate Reconstructions Can Lead to Substantially Different Results
The first double-blind experiment analyzing the role of human decision-making in climate reconstructions has found that it can lead to…
This is Prometheus
Prometheus is a small moon of Saturn that was discovered from images taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1980…
There is a new Earth?
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovered an Earth-like planet circling a nearby star within the Goldilocks zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f…
Liquid water on exomoons of free-floating planets
The moons of planets that have no parent star can possess an atmosphere and retain liquid water. Astrophysicists at LMU…
Supermassive Black Holes Affect The Universe Beyond The Bounds of Their Own Galaxies
Even with masses equal to billions of suns, these gargantuan objects are still mere pinpricks in the vast galactic core,…
Talking about Trappist 1
Over the past three years you have surely heard of Trappist 1, the star that became famous when, in February…
The Fried Egg Galaxy
NGC 7742 (also known as UGC 12760) is a spiral galaxy, located at a distance of around 72 million light…
What is the Supernova Nucleosynthesis?
Supernova nucleosynthesis is the nucleosynthesis of chemical elements in supernova explosions. In sufficiently massive stars, the nucleosynthesis by fusion of…
The latest Elements Finally Have Names
On December 30, the global Union of Pure and practical Chemistry, or IUPAC, announced the bureaucrat discovery of four latest…
HXMM01 starburst galaxy
1HERMES S250 J022016.5-060143 (and also known as HXMM01) is a starburst galaxy, located at a distance of around 11 billion…