Who constructed the 13,000-year-old rhinestones in Turkey?
In the fact that the ancient Egyptian complex of Giza is called the most attractive archaeological hauls that Humanity has discovered. It deserves all of the praise that…
The Most Intense Lightning Ever Seen Came From Last Year’s Tonga Volcano Eruption
The enormous undersea volcano that erupted in Tonga last year was record-breaking in many regards. It generated the highest-ever recorded volcanic plume, it triggered a sonic boom that…
200 years ago, the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way saw a burst of activity. The echo was just seen
We in the Milky Way Galaxy are pretty lucky to have a fairly quiet central supermassive black hole in Sgr A*. It’s not loud and bright like an…
Record-Breaking Planet-Like Object Hotter Than Sun Discovered
An object orbiting a star 1,400 light-years away is seriously confronting our notions of what’s possible in the Universe. It’s a brown dwarf, the curious category of objects…
JPL and the Space Age: Triumph at Saturn – Part I (NASA Documentary)
In 1997 an ambitious international mission, led by NASA’S Jet Propulsion Laboratory, launches to Saturn. The goal is to place a spacecraft around the planet and land the European Space Agency’s probe on…
Astronomers Find a White Dwarf Pulsar
When astronomers talk about the “end states” of stellar evolution, several categories come to mind: black holes, neutron stars/pulsars, and white dwarfs. What happens if one star ends…
Meet Annie Jump Cannon, the “Harvard Computer” that Brought Order Out of Chaos
These Hubble Space Telescope images showcase two of the 19 galaxies analyzed in a project to improve the precision of the universe’s expansion rate, a value known as…
Meet the Giant Prehistoric African Predator, The SuperCroc Unleashed
There were several species of giant prehistoric crocodiles that lived during the Mesozoic Era (about 252-66 million years ago) and coexisted with dinosaurs. One such species was Sarcosuchus,…
Astronomers Find the Second White Dwarf Pulsar in History
White dwarf pulsars include a rapidly spinning, burnt-out stellar remnant called a white dwarf, which lashes a companion red dwarf with powerful beams of electrical particles and radiation,…
Supermassive Black Holes that are merging have never been seen by astronomers. Perhaps Things Are About to Change
Gravitational wave astronomy currently can only detect powerful rapid events, such as the mergers of neutron stars or stellar mass black holes. We’ve been very successful in detecting…