Astronomy
The Youngest Stellar Disk Ever Seen, Just 500,000 Years Old
Unless you’re reading this in an aircraft or the International Space Station, then you’re currently residing on the surface of…
Astronomers are ready and waiting to detect the neutrino blast from a nearby supernova explosion like Betelgeuse
When giant stars die in impressive supernova blasts, about 99% of the energy released goes into producing a flood of…
Astronomers Map Out the Raw Material for New Star Formation in the Milky Way
A team of researchers has discovered a complex network of filamentary structures in the Milky Way. The structures are made…
Astronomers Find the Hollowed-Out Shell of a Dwarf Galaxy that Collided With the Milky Way Billions of Years Ago
In 2005 astronomers found a dense grouping of stars in the Virgo constellation. It looked like a star cluster, except…
Tales of Two Fall Comets: 88P Howell and M3 ATLAS
Two more comets worth scouting the sky for into November 2020.
The Crew of the ISS has Found the Source of the Station’s Air Leak
The ISS crew has found the source of the elusive leak using (wait for it!) tea leaves! The hole is…
The Oxygen Supply has Failed in the Russian Zvezda Module of the ISS. Don’t Worry, the Astronauts aren’t in Danger, but the Station is Showing its Age
Crews aboard the ISS are working to repair the leak, which posed no significant risk. Unfortunately, it shows that the…
Wow, Betelgeuse Might Be 25% Closer than Previously Believed
In the last year, Betelgeuse has experienced two episodes of dimming. Normally, it's one of the ten brightest stars in…
It’s still possible to detect the site of the 2017 kilonova explosion
It's been over a thousand days since the historic kilonova observation, and yet the region continues to emit X-rays, long…