Astronomers Matched van Gogh’s Starry Night to a Real Sky—and a Weirdly Specific Date
For a surprisingly long time, scientists have debated whether Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night was his fantasy,…
The Magellanic Clouds: Two Galaxies Dancing with Death
Dear readers, faithful companions of the lantern and the basketball, First, I must ask your forgiveness for a…
Scientists Simulated the Universe – And Discovered the Milky Way May Be One of the Best Places for Life
Galaxy evolution in an EAGLE simulation. Credit: The EAGLE project/Durham University Galaxy simulations suggest the Milky Way offers…
Astronomers Discover a “Universal” Trigger for Black Hole Jets
Artist’s impression of a black hole surrounded by glowing stellar debris, with material heating up as it spirals…
NASA Hubble Cold Case: A Dead Star May Have Given Birth to a New Planet
This artist’s concept depicts a possible explanation for the unusual chemical abundances NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope detected in…
Cosmic gamma rays test the limits of Einstein’s speed of light rule
A reanalysis of cosmic gamma-ray measurements found no evidence of the tested departures from Lorentz invariance.The researchers tightened…
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal How the First Stars Changed the Universe
The purple cosmic web of gas feeds intense star formation in the first galaxies. As stars live and…
Einstein Probe Discovers a Secret Phase of Neutron Star Collisions
Artist’s impression of satellites observing high-energy prompt emission from a binary neutron star merger. SVOM and HXMT detected…
NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy
Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic…
US scientists resolve uncertainty in strontium formation in stars
Scientists at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) and Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) in the…
The VLT, or When Light Becomes Memory
Dear readers, faithful companions of the lantern and the basketball, There are places where the sky resembles no…
Bangkok Post – Venus may have swallowed its moon
Planet’s slow rotation spells doom for any natural satellite, astrophysicist says Data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer…