In the coming years, NASA and other space agencies will send humans back to the Moon for the first time since the …
December 2024
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Neutron Stars With Less Mass Than A White Dwarf Might Exist, and LIGO and Virgo Could Find Them
by debarjunby debarjunMost of the neutron stars we know of have a mass between 1.4 and 2.0 Suns. The upper limit makes sense, since, …
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Webb Observes Protoplanetary Disks that Contradict Models of Planet Formation
by debarjunby debarjunThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was specifically intended to address some of the greatest unresolved questions in cosmology. These include all …
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The James Webb Space Telescope was designed and built to study the early universe, and hopefully revolutionary our understanding of cosmology. Two …
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Titan is one of the solar system’s most fascinating worlds for several reasons. It has something akin to a hydrological cycle, though …
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Catching the best sky watching events for the coming year 2025. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS captured over the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at …
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For decades cosmologists have wondered if the large-scale structure of the universe is a fractal: if it looks the same no matter …
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Within nearly every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. The beast at the heart of our galaxy contains the mass of millions …
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The black hole information paradox has puzzled physicists for decades. New research shows how quantum connections in spacetime itself may resolve the …
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In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration made history when it released the first-ever image of a black hole. The image …