New Galactic Secrets Revealed
The Fornax Cluster is one of the closest and richest galaxy clusters to our own Milky Way galaxy. A recent image captured by the VLT Survey Telescope…
Researchers Get One Step Closer to Understanding Type la Supernovae
A supernova is the explosion of a star , and the bigger the star, the bigger the explosion. The most famous of these supernovae may be those that…
New Theory Emerges as to how the Universe Became Such a Light-Filled State
After the Big Bang occurred, the universe was pretty dark due to the thick gas that had been churned up, trapping any light that ever was. When the…
Meteor Shower From Dead Comet Sighted Again
During the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition in December 1956, the Phoenicid meteor was seen for the very first time. But, since then,…
Chile’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures Best Image Ever of a Star’s Surface
It’s not easy to capture images of objects in the night sky, as they’re so very far away. So, when astronomers do get good ones, you can be sure that…
Quantum Particle Discovery Destroys Previous Results
After research, scientists have found that the model used for the Efimov molecule, a certain type of quantum particle, is incorrect after being used…
Is it Possible to See the Edge of the Universe?
Scientists hypothesize that there’s an edge to the Universe, as like most things, does not go on forever. But, is that is the case, what does it look…
Describing Distance in a Changing Universe
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has recently finished mapping more of the universe than ever before. To create the map the Survey zeroed in on quasars ,…
Getting to the Nitty Gritty of the Universe
The Universe is so immense and so vast that to be able to explain what it is in one or two sentences is physically impossible. In a very general…
Stephen Hawking and Colleagues Write Angry Letter Defending Theory
Proving a theory is always difficult, even for the world’s top physicists. In February of this year, three of the world’s top physicists decided to…
Scientists May Have Just Revealed Evidence of the Multiverse
There are many things about the universe that still baffle scientists, and one of those anomalies is the so-called “Cold Spot” that spans 1.8 billion…
5 Cosmic Questions Scientists Still Can’t Answer Completely
We’ve not only had a good few years in terms of space science discoveries, we’ve had a few good decades really. However, with all the new things that…
