Astronomy
Why Betelgeuse Dimmed
Using data from Hubble and other observatories, a team of scientists have determine the cause of Betelgeuse's dimming - old…
Starlink Satellites Are Still Bright
The new generation of Starlink satellites remain above the accepted brightness threshold.
Here’s a Sneak Preview of What It’ll Look Like When the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collide
When big spiral galaxies collide, they don't end up as one really big spiral. Instead, they create a humongous elliptical…
The Youngest Exoplanet Ever Seen?
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have observed what could be the youngest exoplanet ever detected!
SpaceX Super Heavy Fires Just one of its Engines. Imagine What it’ll be Like When it Fires all 33
Musk just tweeted an image of the BN7 Super Heavy Booster successfully conducting a static fire test!
Astronomers Were Fortunate Enough to Catch a Neutron Star Merging With Another Star
A team of astronomers have followed the evolution of a short duration gamma ray burst, one of the most intense…
Gravitational Waves Near a Neutron Star Could Generate Photons
In addition to their intense magnetic fields and copious output of x-ray radiation, neutron stars might have one more trick…
Astronomers List 88 Distant Galaxies They Want to Look at With JWST. Some Are Less Than 200 Million Years Old.
Way back in the earliest ages of the universe, the first galaxies were born. Astronomers want to know more about…
Dwarf Galaxies Found Without Influence From Dark Matter
Ask astronomers about dark matter and one of the things they talk about is that this invisible, mysterious "stuff" permeates…
I Asked an AI to Dream the Solar System as Food
As soon as I saw these new artificial intelligence image creation tools, like DALL-E, I wanted to see how well…