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For the first time, astronomers have peered inside a black hole and made a startling discovery about its contents. Using advanced imaging techniques, researchers were able to see what lies in the depths of a black hole: powerful jets of…
The lifetime of a star depends on its mass, with more massive stars having shorter lifetimes and less massive stars having longer lifetimes. The most massive stars can burn through their fuel quickly, ending their stellar evolution in a spectacular…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured images of strange spokes appearing across Saturn’s rings during Saturn’s autumnal or vernal equinox, which lasts about seven years. Researchers believe the spokes are caused by Saturn’s magnetic field, which sends charged particles from the…
It’s true that not every supernova is the same. What follows is a synopsis of the various types of exploding stars. What is the most dangerous supernova? Type I and Type II are the two main groups of supernovae based…
Black holes exist in the real world but are also a theoretical nightmare. To understand their paradoxical nature, imagine each black hole as a swarm of imaginary black holes connected by wormholes. And you thought the universe couldn’t possibly get…
Intelligent life is an extremely unlikely certainty, but it has occurred on Earth. Once an event has occurred, the probability of that event is 100%, no matter how unlikely it seemed at first. The Drake Equation Life on planet Earth…
Scientists have achieved a significant milestone in their quest to create a workable nuclear fusion technology. What does this mean for how we might produce electricity in the future? Nuclear fission and fusion are processes that modify the nuclei of…
The latest Hubble discoveries are astonishing! Just look at this newly formed giant exoplanet from the constellation Auriga, which is nine times the mass of Jupiter. How about this breathtaking image of a head-on collision between two galaxies known collectively…
This Week at NASA! The much-anticipated release of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data is targeted for July 12 at 10:30 a.m. EDT, during a live broadcast from our Goddard Space Flight Center. Recommended posts:…
Some psychologists think that the mathematical tools of quantum mechanics could help them understand human behavior. They don’t think that our brains actually function at the quantum level but that the statistics of quantum mechanics could help them predict human…
