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Welcome back to our series on Interstellar Travel! In our first installment, we examined attempts to realize...
Universe Today
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One of the surprises delivered by the JWST concerns the sizes of early galaxies. The powerful telescope...
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Remember the “Wow!” signal? That high energy radio signature happened in 1977, when the Earth was much...
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(This is Part 3 of a series on what we can actually find on an exoplanet. Read...
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After decades of hypothesizing about the origin of life here on Earth, at least one astrobiologist and...
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The Milky Way’s galactic center is dominated by its supermassive black hole (SMBH) Sagittarius A-star (Sgr. A*)....
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When a new star forms, a rotating disk of material forms around it called an accretion disk....
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Of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, Callisto is the one that gets the least attention. Io is constantly...
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Gravitational wave astronomy has seen plenty of improvements since the original signal was captured in 2015. Despite...
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(This is Part 2 of a series on what we can actually find on an exoplanet. Read...
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The surface of Mars is home to some of the most breathtaking and awe-inspiring landscapes in the...
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Most stars end their lives not in cataclysmic supernova explosions, but with a final exhalation instead. Main...
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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2392 (aka. the Lion Nebula), so-named because of...
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You’ve read it, heard it in casual conversations, and seen it in TV shows and movies: black...
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From 2021 to 2024, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first vehicle of its kind to explore the...
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The early Universe’s Little Red Dots (LRD) could be the JWST’s strangest discovery. LRDs are small, red,...
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Readers of a certain age will remember a golden area of asteroid films, capstoned by two with...
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In 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, then six billion kilometers from Earth and destined to become humanity’s...
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Every so often a piece of research comes along that isn’t really about a discovery, it’s about...
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I’ve spent enough hours in the cockpit of single engine aircraft to have a healthy respect for...