Kepler-10b – a Terrestrial Planet
Kepler-10b is the first confirmed terrestrial planet identified beyond the Solar System by the Kepler Space Telescope. It orbits one of the 150,000 stars monitored…
Astronomy
Binary Stars continue to Masquerade as Black Holes
A binary black hole (BBH) is a system made up of two black holes orbiting each other in close proximity. Binary black holes, like black…
Physicists describe how the sort of Aurora on Mars is Generated
The aurora borealis is a light-in-the-sky display that occurs predominantly at night in Mars’ southern hemisphere. While their existence has long been known, scientists have…
Supermassive Black Holes discovered in Dying Galaxies in the Early Universe
A worldwide team of astronomers utilized a database that combined images from the world’s top telescopes, including the Subaru Telescope, to detect the signal from…
Gliese 876 d – an Exoplanet
Gliese 876 d is an exoplanet located around 15 light-years away in the Aquarius constellation. It is an exoplanet similar to Neptune that orbits a…
Earth Receives the First Supernova Indications from an Extraterrestrial Stone
The extraterrestrial Hypatia stone discovered in Egypt may be the first concrete evidence of a supernova type Ia explosion on Earth. These extremely infrequent supernovae…
Hyperfast White Dwarf Stars can help us comprehend Supernovae
White dwarfs are what remain when stars like our sun have used up all of their fuel. They are dense, faint stellar corpses, the final…
Binary Star Planets as probable Alien Habitats
Nearly half of all stars the size of the Sun are binary. According to new study from the University of Copenhagen, planetary systems orbiting binary…
Scientists have Discovered Gigantic Binary Black Holes
Supermassive black holes have between a million and ten billion times the mass of our Sun. There are more than 150 known supermassive black holes…
Jessica Watkins Makes History as First Black Woman to Serve On ISS
NASA has a long history of breaking new ground, but some discoveries take longer than others. With the launch of NASA’s Crew-4 mission on Wednesday…
Fake Video of the Moon over the North Pole Has a Lot of People Fooled
Many people have been duped by a false film purporting to show the Moon passing the North Pole. “The moon is at the North Pole,…
Searching for Gravitational Waves from Gigantic Black Holes
A gravitational wave travels through spacetime on a route known as a null geodesic. This is the path that a light ray traveling in the…
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