Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Is the Milky Way… Normal?
Studying the large-scale structure of our galaxy isn’t easy. We don’t have a clear view of the Milky Way's shape…
Advanced Civilizations Could be Using Dyson Spheres to Collect Energy From Black Holes. Here’s how we Could Detect Them
Black holes are more than just massive objects that swallow everything around them - they’re also one of the universe’s…
The Largest Rotating Objects in the Universe: Galactic Filaments Hundreds of Millions of Light-Years Long
We've known for a while about the large-scale structure of the Universe. Galaxies reside in filaments hundreds of millions of…
The Average Temperature of the Universe has Been Getting Hotter and Hotter
A recent study by an international team of scientists shows that the Universe is getting hotter (not cooler) with time!
Take a Flight Through the Most Detailed 3D Map of the Universe Ever Made
Once I accidentally took a photo of one of the most important stars in the Universe... Andromeda Galaxy imaged at…
Ancient Impacts Shaped the Structure of the Milky Way
According to a new study using data from the SDSS, ripples in the Milky Way's disk may be indications of…
Astronomers Find a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole, Kicked out by a Galactic Collision
A new study by a research team from the Max Planck Institute may have found a black hole that was…
Confirmed: We Really are ‘Star Stuff’
Scientist Carl Sagan said many times that “we are star stuff,” from the nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in…
Either Stars are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us
Astronomers have found 234 stars that are acting suspiciously like signals sent by extra-terrestrials.
What Are Cosmic Voids?
We talked about the biggest structures in the Universe, but what about the opposite? The biggest empty spaces in the…