Welcome #winter
Today! Wednesday December 21, 2022 is the Winter Solstice and the “longest night of the year” here in the Northern…
Astronomy
New Class Of Strange Objects Discovered Orbiting The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole that weighs more than 4.6 million times as much as our Sun, is located…
Twinkle, twinkle many stars…
This sparkling new #StarrySights Hubble image features NGC 2660, an open star cluster located in the constellation Vela. Unlike in…
James Webb Space Telescope Captures Its First Image Of Saturn’s Largest Moon Titan
Titan’s atmosfere is incredibly interesting, not only due to its methane clouds and storms, but also because of what it…
An exoplanet six times the size of Jupiter is crashing into its star
For the first time, astronomers have observed a planet orbiting ever closer to its star. This means that, one day,…
A Giant Cloud of Alcohol Floating in Space
There is a huge cloud of alcohol 10,000 light-years away in a distant constellation. It’s space booze. The cloud, which…
Is the Thorne Zytkow object real?
Thorne-Żytkow objects are a hypothetical category of stars first proposed in 1977 by astrophysicists Kip Thorne and Anna Żytkow. These…
DETERMINE THE AGE OF A SUPERNOVA REMNANT
SNR 0519 is the remnant of a white dwarf that blew up after exceeding its critical mass limit. There are…
Is dark matter real? Astronomy’s multi-decade mystery
Modern astronomy is in a bit of turmoil. Astronomers understand how stars form, burn, and die, and they are improving…
THE DOUBLE QUASAR, THE FIRST GRAVITATIONAL LENS TO BE OBSERVED
Looking at this stellar field there doesn’t seem to be anything special, some stars of the Milky Way in the…