Shortly After the Apollo 11 Moon Landings, Scientists Fed Moon Dust to Cockroaches
Today is your fortunate day if you’ve ever gazed at a Moon rock and thought to yourself, “Yeah, it’s really nice, but I wish it…
Astronomy
47 Ursae Majoris – a Yellow Dwarf Star
47 Ursae Majoris is a yellow dwarf star located in the constellation Ursa Major, approximately 46 light-years from Earth. It is 45.9 light-years away from…
Astronomers Think They Have Found the First Free-Floating Black Hole
Astronomers have discovered a large number of black holes, both in other galaxies and in our own, and have even photographed two of them. While…
Wandering Star Has Stellar Nursery’s Magnetic Field in a Twist
Astronomers began looking for the source of a profoundly distorted magnetic field within a stellar nursery. They believe they’ve discovered it in a star that…
Strange “Starquakes” And Details of 1.5 Billion Stars Revealed In Most Detailed Map of the Milky Way
The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) is building the most precise map of our galaxy, the Milky Way, ever created. It gave…
14 Herculis – a K-type main-sequence star
14 Herculis is the Flamsteed designation for a K-type main-sequence star in the constellation Hercules located approximately 58.5 light-years away. It is approximately 59.2 light-years…
Fastest Nova Ever Recorded Spotted By Astronomers
A nova is a brilliant explosion that occurs when a white dwarf steals material from its partner in a binary star system. The material is…
China’s Chang’E-5 Confirm Water on the Moon – And It Comes from the Lunar Interior
On the Moon, there is water. It is not flowing as it does on Earth, but it is still present, frozen in ice deep within…
A Sulfur-sucking Life Form May Exist Somewhere in the Universe, But it is Unlikely on Venus
There has been conjecture that life may live in the temperate parts of Venus’ clouds since the likely finding of phosphine in its atmosphere two…
Colliding Giant Galaxy Clusters Create Shockwaves 1.6 Million Light-Years Across
There are many examples of galaxies colliding in the cosmos, but Abell 2146 is substantially larger, having been generated by the merger of two massive…
Across the Galaxy, Planetary Debris is Hurling into White Dwarfs
Astronomers at the University of Warwick have captured images of the first time a white dwarf star’s surface was struck by fragments from shattered planets.…
A Neutron Star is Observed Blowing Strong Warm Winds While Ripping up its Companion
A team of astronomers has discovered for the first time blasts of hot, warm, and cold winds from a neutron star as it eats stuff…
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