Brown dwarfs are curious objects. Although thy can weigh in at up to 80 Jupiter masses, they are too small to be called “stars” yet too big to be called a “planets”. Until the late 1980’s they were purely theoretical …
Image Caption: An international team led by astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire have discovered what may be the coolest sub-stellar body (a brown dwarf) ever found outside our own solar system. The team’s findings have been accepted for publ…
What does 1979’s “Phantasm” have to do with humanity’s future amid the stars? Well, it all comes down to what we’re eager to change about extraterrestrial environments, and exactly how much we’re willing to change about ourselves.
Physicists may be one step closer to achieving a form of clean energy known as nuclear fusion, which is what happens deep inside the cores of stars.
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Astronomers studying two exploding stars, or supernovae, have found evidence the blasts received an extra boost from newborn black holes.
Klencke Atlas, which is 350 years old, will be displayed as part of British Library exhibition on mapsIt takes six people to lift it and has been recorded as the largest book in the world, yet the splendid Klencke Atlas, presented to Charles II on his restoration and now 350 years old, has never been [...]
Cars run out of petrol, stars run out of fuel and galaxies collapse into black holes. As they do, the universe and everything in it is gradually running down. But how run down is it? Researchers from Australia have found that the universe is 30 time…
The Kuiper Belt region is filled with objects believed to be left over from the solar system’s formation. The discovery links solar system formation to planet-forming debris disk around other stars.
The “electroweak stars” are plausible because of the Standard Model of physics — though none have been detected yet — partly because they wouldn’t shine very brightly in visible light.
To find Earthlike worlds around other stars, scientists should take a page from our own planet, a new study reports.
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