Astronomy
When Our Galaxy Smashes Into Andromeda, What Happens to the Sun?
When astronomers look into the night sky, almost every single galaxy is speeding away from us, carried by the expansion…
How Dark Matter Might Have Snuffed Out the First Stars
What role did dark matter play in the early Universe? Since it makes up the majority of matter, it must…
Chandra Sees the Brightest Supernova
NASA's Chandra X-Ray observatory might have observed a brand new kind of supernova, or maybe it's just an unusually bright…
Multiple Generations of Stars in a Cluster
Astronomers have long believed that globular star clusters formed out of a single cloud of dust and gas. All the…
Super-Massive Planet Discovered
It's been a week of planetary discoveries. Here's another. This latest find announced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)…
Young Stars Trashing Their Nursery
The latest image released from the Spitzer Space Telescope shows a pair of stars destroying their surroundings with powerful jets…
Triple View of the Sombrero Galaxy
When we look into the skies with our eyes, we see in the visible spectrum. Although objects can look beautiful,…
Cooler Stars Need to Keep Out of the Danger Zone
If you're a newly forming star system, there's no better place to be than a stellar nursery. All those raw…
Matter Should Dominate the Universe Forever
Thanks to Einstein, we know that matter and energy are just different versions of one another. E=mc2 tells you how…
Hubble’s Detailed Photograph of the Carina Nebula
It's hard to believe, but the Hubble Space Telescope has been churning out discovery after discovery for 17 years now.…