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Star Collapse caused by Neon
An artist’s impression shows how an imaginary deep-sea fish "football-fish" (having Neon-Sign) eats away at the electrons inside a star core. CREDIT: Kavli IPMU Electron-capture supernova: electron-eating neon causes star collapse (Kavali IPMU) Understanding how stars...
Hubble finds best mid-sized black hole evidence
New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized black holes in the Universe. Hubble confirms that this “intermediate-mass” black hole dwells inside a dense star cluster. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble Space Telescope Hubble...
How to see bright Comet ATLAS
Image of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) on March 14th, 2020, Canon 6D, Orion CT8 telescope. CREDIT: Martin Gembec at Wikimedia Commons How to see bright Comet ATLAS (Earth and Sky) April and May actually have a lot of potentially cool things to offer. The comet Atlas...
ESA to conduct BepiColombo flyby amid coronavirus crisis
The BepiColombo spacecraft in orbit around Mercury. CREDIT: ESA. ESA to conduct BepiColombo flyby amid coronavirus crisis (ESA)Bepicolombo - Exploring Mercury (ESA)Science With Bepicolombo (ESA) Let’s face it, we could all use a little positive excitement right...
Quasar winds with record energy levels were seen fleeing a distant galaxy
Bright, active black holes at the centers of galaxies, called quasars (illustrated), can blow gas out into space, shutting down galactic growth. CREDIT: J. Olmsted/STSCI, ESA, NASA Quasar winds with record energy levels were seen fleeing a distant galaxy...
A Wild, Six-Quark Particle Might Have Been Dark Matter All Along
A dibaryon-type hexaquark. There are two constituent quarks for each of the three color charges. CREDIT: Linfoxman on WIkipedia A Wild, Six-Quark Particle Might Have Been Dark Matter All Along Coming up with and then finding new particles is very much the quest of...
New Technique Looks for Dark Matter Traces in Dark Places
It is spring and as we all shelter in place, the excess of daylight is easy to miss. It seems only fitting that in this dark time we should take a moment to talk about dark matter. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope indicates that a huge ring of dark matter...
ALMA Resolves Gas Impacted by Young Jets from Supermassive Black Hole
Reconstructed images of what MG J0414+0534 would look like if gravitational lensing effects were turned off. The emissions from dust and ionized gas around a quasar are shown in red. The emissions from carbon monoxide gas are shown in green, which have a bipolar...
Earth’s own evolution used as guide to hunt exoplanets
This artistic depiction shows exoplanet Kepler-62f, a rocky super-Earth size planet, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Kepler-62f may be what a prebiotic Earth may have looked like. Other exoplanets may look similar. CREDIT: NASA...