Astronomers discover a new type of star covered in helium burning ashes
A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new…
Astrophysics
What is a Primordial Black Holes?
Primordial black holes are a hypothetical type of black hole that formed soon after the Big Bang. In the early…
Dark matter travelling through stars could produce potentially detectable shock waves
Dark matter, a hypothetical material that does not absorb, emit or reflect light, is thought to account for over 80…
What is a scattered disc
Scattered disc is a distant circumstellar disc in the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy small solar system…
A New Trojan Asteroid Has Been Discovered Sharing Earth’s Orbit
Earth has officially been joined in its orbit around the Sun by a new trojan asteroid. Named 2020 XL5, this…
James Webb Space Telescope Reaches Its Destination in Huge Mission Milestone
The James Webb Space Telescope has fired its thrusters and reached its orbital destination around a million miles (1.5 million…
The Graviton: The Quantum Particle That Makes the World Round
In the great classroom of physics — otherwise known as the universe — gravity doesn’t work or play well with…
Two Solar Flares Just Erupted on The Sun, Bringing Coronal Mass Ejections
After a series of eruptions on the Sun, Earth may be in for auroras over the next few days. A…
What is a Nuclear star cluster?
Nuclear star cluster (NSC) or compact stellar nucleus is a star cluster with high density and high luminosity near the…
Black hole devoured a star decades ago and it was only discovered now
Traces of a black hole ‘s “meal” were identified in a dataset from the 1980s, thanks to two high school…