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Magnetars are some of the most fascinating astronomical objects. One teaspoon of the stuff they are made out of would weigh almost one billion tons, and they have magnetic fields that are hundreds of millions of times more powerful than any magnetic that exists today on Earth. But we don’t know much about how they …
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Sunspots are typically no real reason to worry, even if they double in size overnight and grow to twice the size of the Earth itself. That’s just what happened with Active Region 3038 (AR3038), a sunspot that happens to be facing Earth and could produce some minor solar flares. While there’s no cause for concern, …
More than a century after he first proposed it, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is still foundational to our understanding of the Universe.
In the first episode of a new series with ArsTechnica – Edge of Knowledge – Dr. Paul Sutter explains the mysterious and elusive nature of Dark Matter!