Epic star collision, asteroid fly-by and journal resignations
Nature18 hours agoFlames devastate northern California Wildfires have scorched about 890 square kilometres in Northern California, leaving at least 41 people dead as of 17 October, making them the deadliest fires ...
Adler Planetarium bringing telescopes to a library, park or taproom near you this summer
Chicago Tribune3 days ago“We set up one or two telescopes and anyone walking by can take a look. We don’t have to encourage people to stay. It naturally happens,” she said. “They sense a safe place where they ...
Medium-sized black hole is seen devouring a star, UMass Amherst researchers say - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe5 days agoThe study, led by research assistant professor Dacheng Lin, used data taken by three different telescopes over a decade to postulate that a radiation flare in a distant galaxy was a star ...
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Astronomers watch in awe as supermassive blackhole devours wandering star
The Independent via Yahoo News3 days agoAstronomers searching for supernova explosions accidentally stumbled upon a supermassive blackhole recently as it devoured a wandering star that had fallen into its grasp. Some of the most luminous ...
We’ve just seen a huge space explosion and don’t know what it is
New Scientist2 days agoThere’s an enormous, fast-moving explosion in space unlike anything we’ve seen before, and astronomers around the world are scrambling to figure out what it is
5 things to do this weekend (June 21-24, 2018)
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It was fairly small: Just 20 or 30 meters across, which means the network of telescopes we rely on to hunt asteroids didn’t spot it before it entered Earth’s atmosphere—and probably won ...
Dust storm on Mars now covers entire planet
ABC 10 Sacramento3 days agoDust storm on Mars now covers entire planet
Mars probe poised to solve red planet’s methane mystery
Nature2 days agoNow, after 1,000 circuits, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has reached the ideal position to study the planet’s atmosphere, and has made its first scientific observations. It is poised to solve ...
