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Weekly Space Hangout – Aug. 16, 2013

Like your space news, but you just can't handle reading any more? Then watch our Weekly Space Hangout, where we…

11 years ago

Weekly Space Hangout – April 26, 2013

We had an action packed Weekly Space Hangout on Friday, with a vast collection of different stories in astronomy and…

12 years ago

Einstein Right Again! Rapidly Spinning Pulsar Follows General Relativity

A unique and exotic laboratory about 6,800 light-years from Earth is helping Earth-based astronomers test Albert Einstein's theory of general…

12 years ago

Pulsar Sets New Speed Record

A pulsar may have been spotted racing through space at over 6 million miles per hour (9.65 million km/h), setting…

12 years ago

Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast: February 19-25, 2012

[/caption] Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's going to be an awesome week as we watch the planets - Mars, Saturn, Jupiter,…

13 years ago

X-rays Unwrap a Poky Little Pulsar

[/caption] For the first time astronomers have located a pulsar – the super-dense, spinning remains of a star – nestled…

13 years ago

The Crab Gets Cooked With Gamma Rays

[/caption] It's one of the most famous sights in the night sky... and 957 years ago it was bright enough…

13 years ago

Super Star Smashes into the Record Books.

[/caption] The discovery of a super massive neutron star has thrown our understanding of stellar evolution into turmoil. The new…

14 years ago