This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects.…
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Astronauts launch space agriculture with seed pillows
A member of the space crop production team prepares materials for Veggie seed pillows inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA/Cory S Huston When…
SpaceX sends 28 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Falcon 9 flight from Florida
Twenty-eight more Starlink satellites are now circling the planet after a Falcon 9 launch from Florida this morning (Aug. 14). The SpaceX booster lifted off at 8:29 a.m. EDT (1229…
Trump orders space regulations eased in win for Musk
Elon Musk was an advisor to Donald Trump until the pair had a dramatic, public falling out. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday easing regulations for the…
Scientists use Earth’s shadow to hunt for alien probes
333 seconds-exposure containing 19 or more streaks due to Starlink satellites. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/DECam DELVE Survey For decades, astronomers have searched for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes and optical…
Red supergiant star expels mysteriously large cloud of gas
A red supergiant star has expelled the largest cloud of gas and dust ever seen in the process of being blown off one of these stellar behemoths. The vast size…
Astronomers spot the ‘Eye of Sauron’ in deep space
The “Eye of Sauron”: plasma jet in the blazar PKS 1424+240, threaded by a nearly perfect toroidal magnetic field. High-energy gamma rays and neutrinos are strongly beamed toward Earth, even…
Watch Vulcan Centaur rocket launch experimental military satellite on Aug. 12
Rocket Launch: Vulcan USSF-106 – YouTube Watch On United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch its most powerful Vulcan rocket yet today (Aug. 12), and you can watch the liftoff live.…
On its fifth try, SpaceX manages launch of competitor Amazon’s satellites
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX was not one of Amazon’s original choices to fly its Project Kuiper broadband internet satellites, but Elon Musk’s company just knocked out its second launch…
Astronomers find bizarre ‘Cosmic Grapes’ galaxy in the early universe. Here’s why that’s a big deal (photo)
A distant galaxy appears to have more than a dozen tightly packed star-forming clumps arranged like a bunch of grapes — far more than astronomers thought possible in a galaxy…
