Credit: Harrison Haines from Pexels The spectacular aurora at the beginning of May this year showed the power that solar storms can unleash as radiation, but every now and then the sun does something far more destructive. Known as “solar particle events,” these bursts of protons directly from the sun’s surface can shoot out like … 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
New research into ripples in the fabric of space-time suggests that a nearly 2,000-year-old cosmic calculator followed the lunar calendar instead of the solar one. The hand-powered Antikythera Mechanism was recovered in pieces from a shipwreck in the Aegean Sea in 1901, sparking more than a century of research into how the device came to … Read more
A discovered black hole lurking in the Cosmic Dawn is too big to be easily explained. Sitting at the center of a galaxy called J1120 + 0641, it tips the scales at the mass of a billion Suns. Supermassive black holes exist all around us today. The problem is when of the existence of J1120+0641. … Read more