Scientists just launched a balloon in Antarctica that will study distant stars
We’re all pretty familiar with spacecraft like the Hubble telescope giving us lovely glimpses of distant stars, but you don’t have to strap a telescope …
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Astronomers spot the youngest known pulsar ever, and boy is it pretty
Many of the objects NASA and other scientific bodies choose to study in space are incredibly old, but that’s not the case with Kes 75. …
Feast your eyes on the very first image ever captured of a planet being born
Planet formation isn’t exactly the kind of thing that happens in the blink of an eye. New worlds form over extremely long stretches of time, …
The universe’s hungriest black hole eats three suns per week
Scientists at the Australian National University have discovered the Universe’s fastest-growing black hole, a monster that gobbles up a mass the same size as Earth’s …
This ‘singing’ space cloud is where stars and planets are born
Long before our Sun formed it was nothing more than a bunch of material floating listlessly in a large cloud of gas, dust, and debris. …
Early humans saw a rogue star pass close by our Solar System
These days we only really see stars in two contexts: our Sun, which is extremely close and holds us in its gravitational grip, and distant …
Astronomers struggle to explain ‘zombie star’ that keeps exploding but won’t die
We humans like to pretend we know a lot about space and the various objects that we’ve observed in it, but at the end of …
Watch a massive star die a fiery, explosive death
Of the many awe-inspiring sights in space, watching a star explode has to be one of the most impressive. When a large star meets the …
