Earth & Space
A new study published in the Physical Review Letters suggests that the remnant cores of dead average-size stars can explode like a nuclear bomb. #supernova #whitedwarfstars
Researchers report the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting the star GJ 740, a red dwarf star situated some 36 light-years from Earth. #SuperEarth #RedDwarfStar
Skygazers were treated to a glimpse of a “pink supermoon” as the celestial event lit up the skies across the globe. #supermoon
The highlight of the new chart is a wake of stars, stirred up by a small galaxy set to collide with the Milky Way. The map could also offer a new test of dark matter theories. #MilkyWay
In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievement was just the beginning of the science story to be told. #EHTBlackHole
Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, may play host to a giant planet with average surface temperatures of 5,390 degrees Fahrenheit. #starVega #Vegastar #starsinthesky
Scientists are seeing X-rays being emitted from Uranus for the very first time, according to new research. #star #starxrays #xrays #uranus
We are made of stardust, the saying goes, and a pair of studies finds that may be more true than we previously thought. #stardust #carbon
Two years after the first-ever image of a black hole was produced, an international team of scientists has released an updated view of the magnetic fields surrounding it
#MagnetizedBlackHole #EHTBlackHole
Scientists claim they have developed a physical model for a warp drive – a device that would allow spacecraft to travel at faster-than-light speeds. #warpdrive
Among the methods astronomers have found to measure the expansion rate of the local universe, the Hubble constant, surface brightness fluctuations are potentially one of the most precise. New measure of the Hubble constant highlights the discrepancy between estimates of our cosmic fate #TheUniverse #HubbleConstant
A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black holes from dark matter. The international team find that rather than the conventional formation scenarios involving ‘normal’ matter, supermassive black holes could instead form directly from dark matter in high density regions in the centres of galaxies. The result has key implications for cosmology in the early Universe.
NASA’s Perseverance rover is en route to Mar and expected to arrive on Thursday on the surface of the Red Planet, where it will land near the dried-out lakebed Jezero Crater. #lifeonmars #Mars
A team of researchers believes that they have found a natural explanation for dark matter and a number of other scientific oddities that have so far defied explanation, but their work hinges on the existence of a new theoretical subatomic particle as well as an entirely new “warped fifth dimension” of the universe. #5D #fifthdimension #darkmatter
Researchers have found a “sextuply eclipsing sextuple star system,” according to the New York Times. #SolarSystem #solar
