Wednesday, November 8, 2023
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A Cosmic Fundraising Soundtrack
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
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9,000 years ago a Milky Way star exploded in a supernova, leaving behind the Veil Nebula. This nebula is physically huge, containing one filament, NGC 6960, known as the Witch's Broom Nebula, and another, NGC 6995, known as The Bat Nebula.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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The Milky Way is warped. Our galaxy’s wobbly disc might be the result of a tilted halo of the universe’s mysterious dark matter. Or the cause might be the psych/space-rock radio waves of Space is Deep.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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LDN 43 is a nebula which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. In the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light from background stars.
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Astronomers spotted shockwaves shaking the web of the universe, could the cause be Space is Deep as we broadcast across the astral plane?
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
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Van Maanen 2 is the closest known solitary white dwarf to the Solar System. It is a dense, compact stellar remnant no longer generating energy and has equivalent to about 68% of the Sun's mass but only 1% of its radius.
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
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Scientists say the Milky Way's disc is warped. Is that because its dark matter halo is tilted?
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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Tuesday, September 5, 2023
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The Secret Lives of Neutron Stars
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The Cartwheel Galaxy was once a normal spiral galaxy but is now recovering from a head-on collision with a smaller runaway galaxy many millions of years earlier in its history.
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And clouds obscured the stars...
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Situated in the globular cluster M4, the pulsar PSR B1620-26 rotates more than 90 times per second and has a mass of about 1.3 solar masses.
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This weekend is the Perseids Meteor shower, named for the constellation they appear to radiate from (Perseus) in the northeastern sky. The meteors occur as the earth passes through debris - Ice & rocks, left behind by the Comet Swift-Tuttle.
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In 1572, Tycho Brahe observed a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia and recorded its brightness changes in exceptional detail. This brilliant new object helped astronomers reject the idea that the heavens were immutable.
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16 Psyche is a large metallic asteroid in our asteroid belt, discovered in 1852 by Italian astronomer Annibale De Gasparis & named after the Greek Goddess Psyche (Goddess of the Soul).
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Prometheus is a small, potato-shaped moon orbiting just inside Saturn's multi-stranded F ring. They are connected by a fine thread of material, and it is possible that Prometheus is pulling particles out of the F ring.
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Evolution
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The meteorite Glatton was discovered by English civil servant Arthur Pettifor on May 5, 1991. While out planting onions, he heard a loud whining noise and noticed a conifer waving around. Underneath the tree was a small lukewarm stone.
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The answer is blowing in the cosmic winds...
