New research iпdicates that a highly odd strυctυre has beeп discovered iп the oυter parts of oυr Milky Way galaxy. The research, which has beeп pυblished for pυblicatioп iп The Astrophysical Joυrпal Letters, describes Cattail, a gas filameпt that “appears to be the fυrthest aпd biggest massive filameпt iп the galaxy so far,” accordiпg to… Read More »
We are aware of how skewed our perception of reality is. How we see the world is shaped by our senses, our societies, and our knowledge. And you may want to rethink your belief that science will always provide you with an objective reality. Physicists may now verify a hypothesis that Nobel Prize winner Eugen… Read More »
Just over 300 light-years away is a star that’s a lot like a very young version of our Sun, with multiple exoplanets orbiting it. That’s an interesting find in itself. But what makes the system truly dazzling is that it just became the first of its kind to be directly imaged, planets and all. On… Read More »
The James Webb Space Telescope has found a strange alien world shrouded in clouds of sand-like silicate grains. The exoplanet discovery, described in a new paper as the first detection of its kind, was made by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRSpec and MIRI instruments. In the data, astronomers spotted evidence of silicate-rich clouds around… Read More »
While many of us can only dream of space travel, 17-year-old astronaut trainee Alyssa Carson is making it a reality. The ambitious Louisiana-based teenager has had her “heart set on the stars” ever since she was a little girl. At only 3 years old, she told her father, “Daddy, I want to be an astronaut,… Read More »
Over 200 million Americans watched the total solar eclipse in August 2017, but no one had a better view than photographer Jon Carmichael. He spent years plotting how he could capture the total eclipse in a unique way, eventually combining his passions for photography, astronomy, and flight. “I wondered, if I got up high enough, could… Read More »
Because our universe is so huge, it appears that nothing else could exist. Experts believe we may be in a 4-dimensional black hole. Our universe began at the singularity, an infinitely hot and dense point in space. According to CERN experts like James Beecham, black holes in our universe may be characterized in the same… Read More »
A team of astronomers has unexpectedly discovered two galaxies that were previously hidden from view at the edge of space and time. Yoshinobu Fudamoto, an astronomer from Waseda University’s Research Institute for Science and Engineering and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), directed the team that made the discovery using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter… Read More »
This illustration places the newly found white dwarf star right next to our moon for size comparison. Giuseppe Parisi What’s slightly larger than our moon but almost 1.4 times more massive than our sun? ZTF J1901+1458, one of the smallest white dwarf stars ever spotted by astronomers. The dying husk of a sun-like star was… Read More »
Sir Roger Penrose thinks that our universe has undergone numerous Big Bangs, with more to come. Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematician and physicist from the University of Oxford who recently shared this year’s Nobel Prize in physics, says that our universe has undergone numerous Big Bangs, with another one on the way. Updated version of… Read More »