The Mystery of Stellar Remnants For years, astronomers have known that most stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, are not lone ...
Astronomers studying the formation of stars in the Orion Nebula have long noted a paradox. Some of the stars there appear to ...
NASA has published an image of three mysterious nebulae in Cassiopeia. It took astronomers 100 hours to identify the objects ...
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IntroductionIn this series, we have been testing the hypothesis that "the universe might be a simulation running on a giant computer" by actually building simulations.The previous nine installments ...
From violent stellar mergers and rapid neutron capture to Earth's hidden metallic core and mineable deposits, discover how ...
From the primordial heat left behind by Earth’s formation to the continuous energy released by radioactive decay, discover ...
The planet Mercury is the smallest member of our solar system’s eight planets. However, its small size (4,880 kilometres in ...
A rocky lava planet once thought to be too extreme to have an atmosphere appears to be wrapped in one with a reflective layer ...
A collision between two stars may explain why planet-forming disks in the Orion Nebula appear much younger than the stars ...
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On a clear autumn evening, the constellation Cepheus sits high in the northern sky. Its stars form a simple, house-like ...