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Over 700 Stars Mysteriously Vanished In The Last 70 Years, But Why?
[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the mystery of vanishing stars Articles/Links: Click to access 2009.10813.pdf Click to access 1911.05068.pdf https://www.seti.org/event/going-dark… http://user.it.uu.se/~kripe367/MLblin… […]
Is the Big Bang Hidden in Gravitational Waves?
[…] Chapters: 0:00 – Why there is an “Information barrier” 3:04 – Ocean wave analogy 4:46 – Gravitational waves are cosmic Tsumanis 5:45 – How are gravitational waves detected? 8:37 – What caused the gravitational wave background? 10:19 – What … Continue reading
Why Origami May Be The Secret to Finding Exomoons
[…] New research from the Cool Worlds Lab! Join us to learn about a new technique we’ve developed to search for exomoons – “Transit Origami”. Written and presented by Prof David Kipping of Columbia University […]
Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?
[…] It was pretty impressive when LIGO detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Well we’ve just taken that to the next level with a galaxy-spanning gravitational wave detector that may have detected a foundational element of space itself – … Continue reading
The Extraordinary Objects Hubble Has Seen In Our Solar System | Hubble Images Episode 10
Hubble doesn’t just look at distant nebula and galaxies, but has also observed celestial bodies and events in our own solar system. So what has it seen? Images from Hubble / NASA / ESA. More Hubble Images in this playlist: … Continue reading
Brilliant Solar Flares and the Northern Lights Appear in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist | Colossal
GRACE EBERT “Iceland Vortex” by Larryn Rae A trippy shot of the psychedelic California Nebula, a panorama of the Milky Way sprawling above French lavender crops, and a phenomenal glimpse of the sun’s magnetic field bursting after a solar flare … Continue reading
I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It. | ‘Almost Famous’ by Op-Docs
Growing up in a Quaker household, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was raised to believe that she had as much right to an education as anyone else. But as a girl in the 1940s in Northern Ireland, her enthusiasm for the sciences … Continue reading
Hubble is fixed! And is the crisis in cosmology over?! | Night Sky News July ’21
From how to spot the Perseids meteor shower, to fixing the Hubble Space Telescope, to billionaire space flights, free-floating planets, a new type of Supernova, and a solution to the crisis in cosmology. All in this month’s Night Sky News! … Continue reading
There Are Way More Rogue Planets Than We Thought | Kottke
posted by Tim Carmody Jul 06, 2021 The galaxy is wild. Our solar system, with its surprising abundance of living creatures and nonstop radiation and asteroid showers, is a placid, private garden compared to the rest of it. In … Continue reading
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