Astronomers Develop a New Method to Aid in the Search for Dark Matter
Meteors may help astronomers devise a new way to locate dark matter—mysterious and invisible particles that have so far only been discerned by the effect…
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Years After Eating a Star, a Black Hole Burps Material in a Never-Before-Seen Eruption
Stars are torn to pieces when they approach supermassive black holes too closely. A tidal disruption event is what is happening here (TDE). After the…
Investigating the Supersoft X-ray Light Curve’s Origin
Researchers led by Ph.D. candidate Zhao Weitao and Prof. Meng Xiangcun from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Yunnan Observatories reproduced the supersoft X-ray source’s quasi-periodic…
After a Half-year Absence, SpaceX Returns Astronauts to Earth
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (doing business as SpaceX) is a Hawthorne, California-based American spacecraft manufacturer, space launch provider, and satellite communications corporation. Elon Musk founded…
DART Shortened The Asteroid’s Orbit By 32 Minutes
NASA’s DART mission has significantly altered Dimorphos’s orbit, according to two weeks of monitoring of the Didymos/Dimorphos system. This is the first time humans have…
The Brightest Flash ever Seen has Awed Astronomers
Astronomers have witnessed the brightest flash of light ever seen, which occurred 2.4 billion light years away from Earth and was most likely caused by…
Galileo Used A False Name To Disrespect Another Philosopher’s Astronomical Claims
Natural philosophers had treatises where they could still make fun of each other’s theories and viewpoints before scientists had subtweets and call-out blogs. It turns…
Massive Stars Emit Warning Sounds before Going Supernova
Astronomers have devised an ‘early warning’ system to sound the alert when a massive star is about to end its life in a supernova explosion.…
A New Abiotic Pathway for Oxygen Formation
Researchers have now found evidence that double-ionised sulphur dioxide contribute to the formation of oxygen molecules. This could, in particular, explain the presence of oxygen…
Composition of Gas Giants is not determined by the Host Star
A surprising analysis of the composition of gas giant exoplanets and their host stars shows that there isn’t a strong correlation between their compositions when…
The Iconic Voyager 1 Spacecraft has been in Orbit for 45 Years
The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft from NASA has reached an important milestone. The Voyager 1 probe was launched 45 years ago, on September 5, 1977,…
Voyager 1 has been in Interstellar Space for Ten Years
Humanity has spent the last decade exploring interstellar space. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft was 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun on August…
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