Mar 12, 2024
It’s natural to lie to yourself when you have a problem with alcohol. I know I did, in multiple ways. I lied that alcohol…
Mar 4, 2024
Over the past 13.8 billion years, the Universe has evolved from a hot, dense, largely uniform early state to a clumpy, clustered, star-and-galaxy-rich state,…
Mar 4, 2024
Red supergiants are some of the largest stars (by volume) in the Universe. Stars are not born as red giants; they become one, as…
Mar 2, 2024
The United States is in decline. At least, according to economist Ray Dalio, who’s been studying the rise and fall of empires for most of…
Feb 19, 2024
According to the same data, 697 systems are known to include more than one planet, meaning that there is slightly more than one planet…
Feb 19, 2024
In the Universe’s youth, many galaxies experienced a period of intense star formation. Today, some galaxies, such as our own Milky Way, still form…
Feb 19, 2024
If you sit in a swivel office chair, put it around, and look at the ceiling, you will see that a spot just above…
Feb 19, 2024
Only 165,000 light-years distant, it’s copiously forming stars. Our Local Group of galaxies is dominated by Andromeda and the Milky Way, but there’s no…
Feb 19, 2024
Ever since seeing the star maps in Apple’s Foundation I’ve wanted to create my own Galactic Star Map of the star systems mapped by…
Feb 19, 2024
Over the past 13.8 billion years, the Universe has evolved from a hot, dense, largely uniform early state to a clumpy, clustered, star-and-galaxy-rich state,…
Feb 17, 2024
Over the past 13.8 billion years, the Universe has evolved from a hot, dense, largely uniform early state to a clumpy, clustered, star-and-galaxy-rich state,…
Feb 17, 2024
They appear different because they were performed by two different research groups, who worked on the same data provided by the NICER X-ray telescope,…
