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Starts With a Bang!
17 Feb 2020, 15:01 UTC
We’ve come fantastically far in our understanding of the distant Universe. Here’s how we’ll go even farther.
4 Cosmic Records That The James Webb Space Telescope Should Shatter
17 Feb 2020, 15:01 UTC
We’ve come fantastically far in our understanding of the distant Universe. Here’s how we’ll go even farther.
Starts With a Bang!
14 Feb 2020, 15:01 UTC
It took thousands of scientists working for hundreds of years for us to arrive at this picture, and yet the lack of a consensus on what the expansion rate actually is tells us that either something is dreadfully wrong, we have an unidentified error somewhere, or there’s a new scientific revolution just on the horizon.
The Expanding Universe Might Not Depend On How You Measure It, But When
14 Feb 2020, 15:01 UTC
It took thousands of scientists working for hundreds of years for us to arrive at this picture, and yet the lack of a consensus on what the expansion rate actually is tells us that either something is dreadfully wrong, we have an unidentified error somewhere, or there’s a new scientific revolution just on the horizon.
Discover
14 Feb 2020, 13:00 UTC
You don’t have to be a scientist to know that stars shine. It’s what they’re known for. But how and why they shine was unknown for thousands of years, and only became clear in the 20th century, as humans puzzled out the power of nuclear fusion.
How Do Stars Produce and Release Energy?
14 Feb 2020, 13:00 UTC
You don’t have to be a scientist to know that stars shine. It’s what they’re known for. But how and why they shine was unknown for thousands of years, and only became clear in the 20th century, as humans puzzled out the power of nuclear fusion.
Scientific American
13 Feb 2020, 16:16 UTC
How the Celebrated "Pale Blue Dot" Image Came to Be
How the Celebrated "Pale Blue Dot" Image Came to Be
13 Feb 2020, 16:16 UTC
How the Celebrated "Pale Blue Dot" Image Came to Be
Bad Astronomy
13 Feb 2020, 14:00 UTC
The placements of the planets in our solar system are pretty stable. By that I mean their orbits don't change much over time. There are changes, to be sure, but they tend to be slow or cyclic, and any big changes would take millions, if not billions, of years to play out.
Exoplanet smashup: The very weird dust disk around BD +20 307
13 Feb 2020, 14:00 UTC
The placements of the planets in our solar system are pretty stable. By that I mean their orbits don't change much over time. There are changes, to be sure, but they tend to be slow or cyclic, and any big changes would take millions, if not billions, of years to play out.
Centauri Dreams
12 Feb 2020, 17:02 UTC
330 light years from the Sun is the infant planet 2MASS 1155-7919 b, recently discovered in Gaia data by a team from the Rochester Institute of Technology. It’s a useful world to have in our catalog because we have no newborn massive planet closer to Earth than this one. Circling a star in the Epsilon Chamaeleontis Association, 2MASS 1155-7919 b is thought to be no more than 5 million years old, orbiting its host at roughly 600 times the Earth/Sun distance. A stellar association like Epsilon Chamaeleontis is a loose cluster, with stars that have a common origin but are no longer gravitationally bound as they move in rough proximity through space.
A Nearby ‘Planet’ in Formation
12 Feb 2020, 17:02 UTC
330 light years from the Sun is the infant planet 2MASS 1155-7919 b, recently discovered in Gaia data by a team from the Rochester Institute of Technology. It’s a useful world to have in our catalog because we have no newborn massive planet closer to Earth than this one. Circling a star in the Epsilon Chamaeleontis Association, 2MASS 1155-7919 b is thought to be no more than 5 million years old, orbiting its host at roughly 600 times the Earth/Sun distance. A stellar association like Epsilon Chamaeleontis is a loose cluster, with stars that have a common origin but are no longer gravitationally bound as they move in rough proximity through space.
Discover
12 Feb 2020, 13:00 UTC
