Remember the period it takes us to go around the sun is our year…imagine doing that every 2/3 of a day…shoot, I’d be 50,000 years old by now… https://www.livescience.com/super-earth-alien-planet-toi-1685b.html By […] Read More
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Pretty amazing stuff…really, really humbles you…we are all living on a tiny dust speck orbiting a very average star, one of a hundred billion in our galaxy, and yet there […] Read More
https://www.livescience.com/first-black-hole-detected-fastest-spinning.html By Tim Childers – Live Science Contributor Six decades after its discovery, the first black hole ever detected is still causing astronomers to scratch their heads. It turns out that the cosmic […] Read More
https://www.livescience.com/planet-9-doubts.html By Rafi Letzter – Staff Writer for livescience.com Does the solar system have a big, dark ninth planet drifting somewhere far beyond the orbit of Neptune? Since 2016, many astronomers have said it’s possible, […] Read More
How to watch and what is happening… https://www.livescience.com/mars-perseverance-landing-watch-live.html https://www.livescience.com/perseverance-landing-sequence.html
By Brandon Specktor – Senior Writer at LiveScience.com Earth’s second moon will make a close approach to the planet next week before drifting off into space, never to be seen again. “What second […] Read More
By By Paul Sutter – Astrophysicist for livescience.com Neutron stars are essentially city-size atomic nuclei composed of individual neutrons crammed together just about as tightly as possible. Shown here, an illustration of a […] Read More
From livesience.com comes this story of the discovery of a most rare type of very “young” neutron star, dubbed J1818.0-1607, which appears to whirl about at an incredible speed, that […] Read More
Rarest Planet in the Universe May Be Lurking in Orion’s Nose — Also, Discovery of the First Magnetar
By Brandon Specktor – Senior Writer September 03, 2020 This could be the first known planet in the universe to orbit three suns at once. In this article, scroll down for the magnetar discovery […] Read More
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