The Return of the Malik – The Wild Proposals on NASA’s Table – YouTube Watch On On Episode 173 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik…
Category: Astronomy
Meet ‘lite intermediate black holes,’ the supermassive black hole’s smaller, much more mysterious cousin
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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
‘Ice cube’ clouds discovered at the galaxy’s center shouldn’t exist — and they hint at a recent black hole explosion
Two of the strangest structures in the galaxy just got even stranger. Ballooning above and below the Milky Way‘s center like a massive hourglass, the mysterious Fermi bubbles loom large…
How the Red Planet craze started 120 years ago: Interview with ‘The Martians’ author David Baron
David Baron: Absolutely. I mean, if I’m going to write a book about history, I want to make sure that it resonates with what is happening today. There has be…
Hubble Telescope gives us our best look yet at the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (video, photo)
Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now have the sharpest image yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, showing that it is clearly a comet, with a coma filled with…
Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector review
Specification Size: 9.6 x 4.3 x 12.8 inches Weight: 1.25lbs Bulb Type: LED Laser: Yes Control: On unit Rotation: No Sleep timer: No Speaker: Built-in voice, no Bluetooth speaker It’s…
