Dead Galaxies Found in Surprisingly High Frequency in Ancient Galactic City
A large cluster of young galaxies emerging in the early cosmos has been discovered by an international team of astronomers lead by researchers from the…
Astronomy
Investigating the Relics of Andromeda’s Violent Past
Andromeda Galaxy, also known as the Andromeda Nebula, is the nearest large galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. The Andromeda Galaxy is one of the few…
Astronomers Have Discovered a New Type of Star that is Covered in Helium Ash
Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen led a team of German astronomers that discovered a weird new type of star covered in the…
28 Aquilae – a Giant Star
A Giant Star is 28 Aquilae. It is not part of the Aquila constellation outline but is within the borders of the constellation. It is…
Astronomers Discover Brown Dwarf Pair with Widest Separation to Date
A group of scientists has identified an unusual pair of brown dwarfs with the greatest separation of any brown dwarf binary system discovered so far.…
How Do White Holes Form?
There are several theories on how white holes develop. White holes are the potential evil twins of black holes, according to cosmologist Igor Novikov in…
CoRoT-7d – an Unconfirmed Exoplanet
CoRoT-7d is an unconfirmed exoplanet that is thought to orbit around CoRoT-7. A. P. Hatzes et al. discovered this exoplanet in 2010 using the radial…
An Old Russian Rocket Has Suddenly Exploded In Orbit
In orbit, an outdated Russian engine burst, scattering 16 pieces of potentially dangerous debris. When the GLONASS satellites were launched in 2007, the Russian SOZ…
Watch What It’s Like To Be Hurled Into Space by a Giant Centrifuge at 1,000 MPH
Start-up SpinLaunch has come up with a novel means of demonstrating how we can launch objects into orbit without using chemical propellant right away. In…
A Near-sun Comet was roasted to Death
Astronomers have captured images of a periodic rocky near-Sun comet breaking apart using a fleet of world-class telescopes on the ground and in space. This…
Astronomers Discover a Trove of Gigantic Black Holes
Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown treasure trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies. The newly discovered black holes provide a glimpse into the…
A Record Number of Brown Dwarfs has been Discovered
Brown dwarfs are unusual celestial objects that are much heavier than planets but not massive enough to become stars. The celestial objects can be extremely…
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