NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a breathtaking image of NGC 4951, a spiral galaxy located approximately 49 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. This image, showing the galaxy in incredible detail, provides valuable insights into star formation processes and energy dynamics within galaxies. The high-resolution image captured by Hubble provides a glimpse into … Read more
Special techniques used to study ripples in the universe may have helped researchers solve an ancient mystery. According to a new paper in Horological Magazine. These techniques allowed the researchers to tell how many holes were in one of the broken rings of the Antikythera Mechanism, the ancient computer shown in Indiana Jones and the … Read more
Lunar rings are mysterious, brightly colored features on the moon’s surface that stretch for hundreds of miles. These intriguing patterns, visible even with a backyard telescope, have defied easy explanation for years. Recent research suggests that the eddies may be magnetized by invisible magmas beneath the lunar surface. New insights into lunar rotations Recent modeling … Read more
Researchers have linked the periodic pulses of neutron stars to internal defects influenced by superfluid vortices, with a new model suggesting that these defects follow a power-law pattern observed in various natural phenomena. Credit: SciTechDaily.com A recent study has revealed the origin of the mysterious “heartbeats” observed in neutron stars, linking them to defects caused … Read more
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The Milky Way is not alone in its little corner of the Universe. Small faint dwarf galaxies, many with a few to a thousand stars, orbit our cosmic neighborhood in long graceful circles. It’s unclear exactly how many there are, but there must be many more than the 60 or so we’ve found so far. … Read more
Located in the northwest corner of Nebraska, Toadstool Geological Park is a geological treasure trove that offers a unique look into the region’s prehistoric past. The park is best known for its magnificent rock formations of giant, narrow pedestals filled with sandstone slabs that resemble mushrooms and fossil beds. It is part of the Oglala … Read more
Scientists at the world’s largest physics experiment have reported the most precise measurement of the most massive subatomic particle we know. The discovery sounds esoteric, but it would not be an understatement to say that it has implications for the entire universe. The Greek philosopher Empedocles hypothesized 2,400 years ago that matter could be broken … Read more
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket carrying eight CubeSats as part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch (CSLI) ELaNa (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites) 43 mission departs from the company’s payload processing facility at Space Launch Complex, California, at Vandenberg Space 2 on Sunday, June 30, 2024. Firefly Aerospace is one of three companies selected to fly small satellites into … Read more
Scientists have long debated why woolly mammoths, giant sloths and 44 giant plant-eating ‘megaherbivores’ went extinct starting around 50,000 years ago. Some paleontologists, biologists, and others have argued that drastic climate change events during the last two ice ages were responsible for the extinction of these majestic creatures. But a new study has found another … Read more