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Black Hole Eating a Star Seen For The First Time
Astronomers observe for the first time a monster black hole eating a star and throwing an enormous blast. The study relies on 10 years of observations. The new research relies on observations from a group of well-known telescopes. This may help astronomers locate black holes in the future. As the black hole rips the star...
Three Earth-Sized Planets Found 160 Light-Years Away
Astronomers collected data from the K2 mission of NASA’s Kepler satellite. Thus, finding three Earth-sized planets in a solar system 160 light-years away. These mysterious worlds lie in the constellation of the Sextant at 50 parsecs from the Sun. They orbit too close to their parent star. Therefore, they may be too hot...
NASA Rover Finds Ancient Organic Matter on Mars
Two studies shed light on the theory that Mars may have once been an inhabited world. Curiosity rover just found organic matter in the Martian soil. NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has identified a variety of organic molecules on 3 billion-year-old mudstone in the Gale crater. The rover has also detected methane...
Would An Alien Civilization Survive Climate Change?
Researchers want to know if a sustainable alien civilization exists somewhere, maybe outside our galaxy or “our universe”. Climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity loss is something that is happening right in front of our eyes. Many out there believe that creating a sustainable version of civilization is one...
An Asteroid Just Broke Up Over Africa
NASA discovered an asteroid on a collision-course with Earth. Just hours after discovery, the object disintegrated above Earth. The boulder-sized space rock slammed into the Earth’s atmosphere Saturday (June 2). The US space agency first detected the boulder when it was as far away as the Moon’s orbit. The asteroid...
Key to Finding Aliens Is Hiding in the Stratosphere
Stratosphere is a harsh, dry, cold, ultraviolet-drenched environment with low pressure. Studying it may give us a new perspective on life on other planets. So, the stratosphere is the atmospheric zone that lies directly above the dynamic troposphere where we live. When we fly on a plane over 35,000 feet, we are...
NASA Camera Melted During Rocket Launch but Photos Survived
A DSLR camera melted on Tuesday, May 22, during SpaceX’s latest Falcon 9 rocket launch. The camera belongs to NASA photographer Bill Ingalls. On May 22 Ingalls traveled to California to photograph the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch two spacecraft into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base northwest of Santa Barbara. The...
Star Turns into a Black Hole Before Hubble’s Eyes
Hubble just witnessed the birth of a black hole for the first time. But astronomers didn’t expect this kind of unusual birth. Usually, when a massive star expands its fuel, its core collapses into a dense object. Thus, sending the rest of its gas outward in an event is called a supernova. However, this was not the case...
Baby Stars Found Just 250 Million Years after Big Bang
An international team of astronomers found evidence of baby stars formed only 250 million years after big bang. They used ALMA telescope. So, using instruments at the ALMA observatory in Chile, astronomers were able to observe a distant galaxy called MACS1149-JD1. This galaxy lies 13.28 billion light-years away and its stars...
Uranus’ Cloud Tops Smell Rotten Eggs
An international team of astronomers using the Gemini North Telescope on Hawaii’s Maunakea have detected hydrogen sulfide. This gas gives rotten eggs their unpleasant smell. They have detected this kind of gas throughout the upper atmosphere of Uranus. Scientists have long debated whether hydrogen sulfide or ammonia dominate...