What Lit the Lamps That Let Humanity Measure the Universe
per year, approximately 1,000 Type Ia supernovae exploded across the sky. These stellar explosions brighten and then fade in ...
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Tiny, Explosive ‘Jetlets’ Might Be Fueling the Solar Wind
flow out With the sun moving at a million miles per hour, the solar wind — a hot plasma ...
No, the James Webb Space Telescope Hasn’t Broken Cosmology
crack in Cosmology should take a while to emerge. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned on ...
Citizen Scientists Show Light Pollution Erases Stars From the Sky
many years ago, christopher Kyba is skeptical of astronomy data collected by citizen scientists — after all, it relies ...
Why This Universe? Maybe It’s Not Special—Just Probable
cosmologist spent Decades have been spent trying to understand why our universe is so surprisingly vanilla. Not only is ...
Why the Search for Life in Space Starts With Ancient Earth
Next, they'll use spectrometers to try and find key molecules like oxygen or methane. How much they each find ...
Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Universe’s First Galaxies
scientists just announced They've detected what may have been the first galaxies to form in the universe, a tantalizing ...
The Enigma of Dragonfly 44, the Galaxy That’s Almost Invisible
In 2016, astronomers A team led by Yale University's Pieter van Dokkum has published a bombshell paper claiming to ...
NASA Will Not Change the James Webb Telescope’s Name
led by james weber NASA in the 1950s and 60s, during the "Lavender Scare" of the Cold War, when ...
The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst Sparks a Supernova Hunt
In the morning On Oct. 9, astronomers had a relatively modest alert in their inboxes: NASA's Swift Observatory had ...
