Colliding Neutron Stars Generate Just Small Amounts of Gold, Creating an Astronomical Mystery
Colliding neutron stars were touted as the main source of some of the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table. Now, not so much … Neutron…
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Astronomers Look Back 11 Billion Years and See Unusual “Cosmic Ring of Fire”
Unusual galaxy set to prompt rethink on how structures in the universe form. Astronomers have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy —…
Star-Quakes Recorded by NASA Space Telescope Provide Solution to an Astronomical Mystery
Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age. Data gathered by NASA’s now defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery….
Spin Doctors: Vast Cosmic Filaments and Galaxy Rotation [Video]
Sky survey provides clues to how galaxies change over time. The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have found. A…
Not Long Ago, the Center of the Milky Way Exploded – Cataclysmic Blast of Energy and Radiation
Researchers find evidence of a cataclysmic flare that punched so far out of the galaxy its impact was felt 200,000 light years away. A titanic,…
And Then There Was Light: Hunting the First Stars in the Universe [Video]
Researchers hunt for a 12-billion-year-old signal that marks the end of the post Big Bang “dark age.” Astronomers are closing in on a signal that…