This is a Simulation of the Interstellar Medium Flowing Like Smoke Throughout the Milky Way
How do stars form? We know they form from massive structures called molecular clouds, which themselves form from the Interstellar…
What Happens to Their Supermassive Black Holes When Galaxies Collide?
What’s better than two gigantic galaxies swirling into one another until they collide? How about three galaxies swirling into one…
The Solar Wind is More Attracted to the Earth’s North Pole Than the South. Why?
Likely the most well-known result of the Earth’s magnetic field are the Aurora Borealis and Australis (Northern and Southern Lights). …
The Magnetic Fields Swirling Within the Whirlpool Galaxy
Messier objects are some of the most imaged objects in the universe. In part that’s because many of them are…
The First Cubesat With a Hall-Effect Thruster has Gone to Space
Student-led teams aren’t the only ones testing out novel electric propulsion techniques recently. Back in November, a company called Exotrail…
Planets are Finally Being Discovered Orbiting Farther From Their Stars
We don't know much about exoplanets with long orbital periods, but we're starting to learn.
Here’s the Extremely New Website for the Extremely Large Telescope
In the vein of “go big or go home,” the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has launched a stunning new website…
A New Satellite Is Going to Try to Maintain Low Earth Orbit Without Any Propellant
Staying afloat in space can be deceptively hard. Just ask the characters from Gravity, or any number of the hundreds…
This is What the Sun Looked Like for Every Day in 2020
Have you ever seen the videos of people taking daily selfies of themselves over the course of years or even…
According to the Math, it’s Highly Unlikely That an Intelligent Civilization is Located at Alpha Centauri
In a new study, a pair of Harvard astrophysicists did the math on whether or not BLC1 is an extraterrestrial…