Saturday, November 30, 2024

Stars

"The Majority Of The Stars You See Aren't Dead. There’s a common misconception that when you’re looking up at the sky, you’re seeing thousands of dead stars who are still sending light out into the universe. It’s a poetic thought, but it’s also false. Most of the stars in the night sky are still out there, shining away. After all, stars burn for millions of years. What are the chances all the ones you see would have perished by now?"

https://www.highpointscientific.com/astronomy-hub/post/astronomy-101/10-astronomy-facts-every-stargazer-should-know

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Rocks in Space

"When Earth was about 200 million years old, it passed through a field of rocks suspended in space."

https://interestingfacts.com/gold-facts/

Monday, November 25, 2024

Galaxy Smash

"A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been seen in unprecedented detail by one of Earth's most powerful telescopes."

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/2-million-mph-galaxy-smash-seen-unprecedented-detail?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Voyager 2

"When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists’ first — and, so far, only — close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet."


https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/mining-old-data-from-nasas-voyager-2-solves-several-uranus-mysteries/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Saturday, November 9, 2024

FRBs

"Since their discovery in 2007, fast radio bursts—extremely energetic pulses of radio-frequency light—have lit up the sky repeatedly, leading astronomers on a chase to uncover their origins."


https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/mighty-radio-bursts-linked-to-massive-galaxies?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Friday, November 8, 2024

NASA astronaut taken to hospital

"NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for an undisclosed medical issue after returning from a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing’s capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton, the space agency said Friday."


https://ksltv.com/701402/nasa-astronaut-remains-in-the-hospital-after-returning-from-space/