Tag: galaxies
Real shooting stars exist, but they aren’t the streaks you see...
Idan Ginsburg, Georgia State University
“I see thy glory like a shooting star.”
So says the Earl of Salisbury as he ruminates about the future...
Are there any planets outside of our solar system?
Jean-Luc Margot, University of California, Los Angeles
Curious Kids is a series for children of...
535 new fast radio bursts help answer deep questions about the...
Emmanuel Fonseca, West Virginia University
On June 9, 2021, my colleagues and I announced the discovery of 535 fast...
Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found...
J. Xavier Prochaska, University of California, Santa Cruz and Jean-Pierre Macquart, Curtin University
In the late 1990s, cosmologists made a prediction about how much ordinary...
How the Hubble Space Telescope opened our eyes to the first...
Rodger I. Thompson, University of Arizona
The Hubble Space Telescope launched on the 24th of April, 30 years ago. It’s an impressive milestone especially as...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
