Active black holes are pretty easy to detect. Their superheated accretion disks emit bright x-rays, and the...
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The MeerKAT radio telescope, composed of 64 dish antennas located in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, was...
A Pair of White Dwarfs Locked in a Six-Minute Orbit Might One Day Be Observed By Gravitational Waves
Current gravitational wave observatories aren’t sensitive enough to capture the gravitational waves of binary stars. They can...
Out in the solar system, there is a giant rippling curtain of charged particles that is actually...
The planet Venus is arguably the most mischievous planetary body in the solar system. This is because...
In 2012, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was commissioned to measure the effect of Dark Energy,...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the largest multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey of the cosmos,...
Pulsars are incredibly precise cosmic clocks. So precise that we can use them to measure subtle changes...
More than fifty years after it was proposed, the search for Dark Matter continues, whether through cosmic...
The Moon has a full dance card along the ecliptic this month. The Moon is busy in...
Centaurs are small solar system bodies that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. Because they move...
In September 2022, astronomers observed something very odd in a galaxy around 7.5 billion light-years from Earth....
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Mercury’s surface is barren and covered in impact craters, and looks very much like the surface of...
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Spacecraft famously have small bits of them disintegrate on reentry. That’s by design, as it is one...
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Ah, that ever-elusive dark matter. Although there has been some tantalizing evidence suggesting the detection of a...
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The search for dark matter has reached another milestone – in this case the start of science...
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Keeping track of time in the universe is a difficult task. It’s constantly evolving and changing, and...
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Dark matter is the invisible stuff that accounts for roughly 85% of the mass in the universe,...
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Among the rarest objects in the universe, high redshift quasars — of the sort that formed before...
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If you visit the New Horizons mission website frequently, you’ll notice that the spacecraft continues to generate...