Bernard 30, Dark cloud
Barnard 30 is a dark cloud, located at a distance of around 1,300 light years in the constellation of Orion. …
Cigar Galaxy
Messier 82 (also known as NGC 3034, Cigar Galaxy or M82) is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away…
Behemoths of the Universe: Hypergiant Stars
The universe is populated with a number of amazingly massive stars, many of which dwarf our own Sun. One of…
Galaxy mergers
Galaxy mergers can occur when two (or more) galaxies collide. They are the most violent type of galaxy interaction. The…
Discovered a Super-Earth Exoplanet Orbiting the Nearby Red Dwarf Star
Using both transit and radial velocity data, researchers discovered Gliese 486 b – a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting the nearby red…
Harvard’s Avi Loeb Argues That ‘Oumuamua’ Was Really An Interstellar Alien Probe
Unless you’ve been living under a rock on the far side of the Moon, you will likely have heard of…
Pivotal Discovery Open New Field of Quantum Technology Called “Magnonics”
In a first-of-its-kind discovery, researchers in the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Argonne National Laboratory announced…
The biggest unanswered questions about dark matter
In the 1930s, a Swiss astronomer named Fritz Zwicky noticed that galaxies in a distant cluster were orbiting one another…
What is dark matter?
Dark matter is a form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe and…
The benefits and harms of marijuana, explained by the most thorough research
Marijuana has been with humans in some way or another for thousands of years. But after all this time, there…