Astronomy
Super-Neutron Stars are Possible
When a star like our Sun dies, it'll end up as a white dwarf. And if a star contains 1.4…
Galaxy’s Arms are Rotating Backwards
As galaxies rotate, their spiral arms usually sweep back, trailing behind the rotation of the galaxy. But astronomers have found…
The Building Blocks of the Grand Spirals
We live in a beautiful grand spiral galaxy. But how did we get from the primordial elements after the Big…
A Quartet of Stars, Locked in a Tight Embrace
Astronomers think that many star systems actually contain multiple stars. There are doubles, triples and even quadruple groupings of stars…
Hubble Sees a Double Einstein Ring
An Einstein Ring happens when two galaxies are perfectly aligned. The closer galaxy acts as a lens, magnifying and distorting…
There’s a Lopsided Halo of Antimatter Surrounding the Centre of the Milky Way
Bring matter and anti-matter together, and you get a potent explosion. Since antimatter is annihilated almost as soon as it…
Hidden Quasars – Found!
Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the Universe. Just a single quasar can blaze more than a hundred…
The Universe Held a Party, and We Missed It
It's too bad. Life evolved here on Earth after the Universe's big parties already ended. Sure, there's the occasional galaxy…
Beautiful View of the Cygnus Loop
Let's stop all this science talk for a second and just enjoy this amazing photograph. It's an image of Pickering's…
Massive Disk Galaxies Collapsed From a Single Cloud of Gas
Here's the traditional thinking. The grand spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way took a long time to come together…