Astronomy
There are Natural Starshades Out There, Which Would Help Astronomers Image Exoplanets
A new study by an international team of astronomers has shown that eclipsing binary stars could act as a natural…
Supermassive black holes can cloak themselves in a cocoon of dust, making them invisible even when they should be bright quasars
Quasars are the most powerful sources of light in the universe, but sometimes they're hard to find. A team of…
There’s a flash of ultraviolet just as a white dwarf is exploding as a supernova
Astronomers recently spotted a rare type of supernova explosion that was accompanied by a massive flare of ultraviolet radiation. Untangling…
Saturn-sized Planet Found in the Habitable Zone of Another Star. The First Planet Completely Discovered by Amateur Astronomers
Exoplanets have been a particularly hot topic of late. More than 4000 of them have been discovered since the first…
According to Globular Clusters, the Universe is 13.35 Billion Years Old
A new study by an international team of astronomers and cosmologists has used globular clusters to come up with new…
Gamma-Ray Telescopes Can Measure the Diameters of Other Stars
Four gamma ray telescopes have used a new method of interferometry to measure the size of two stars.
The Moons of Uranus Are Fascinating Enough On Their Own That We Should Send a Flagship Mission Out There
What’s the most interesting fact you know about Uranus? The fact that its rotational axis is completely out of line…
The Moon is an Ideal Spot for a Gravitational Wave Observatory
A prestigious pair of astronomers have published a paper recommending that a gravitational wave observatory be built on the far…
Wow! An Actual Picture of Multiple Planets Orbiting a Sunlike Star
We've detected thousands of exoplanets, but for the most part, nobody's ever seen them. They're really just data, and graphs…
Astronomers are Starting to Find Planets in Much Longer Orbits. Cooler, More Habitable Planets
We're getting better and better at detecting exoplanets. Using the transit method of detection, the Kepler Space Telescope examined over…