When we think of a supernova, we usually think of a massive explosion that wipes out the entire white dwarf star (dying stellar body). However, thanks to a collaboration of … [Read full article]
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Fast Forward To A Gobbled-Up Milky Way
You may have heard that the days of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, are numbered. The Milky Way is one of the dominant galaxies of a cluster known as … [Read full article]
Discovery of Cosmic 'Rings' – An Echo from Before the Bang?
What might appear at first to be a rather psychedelic rendering of the Target (department store) logo, above, is actually a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) showing the … [Read full article]
Cosmic News: Lots More Stars than "Billions and Billions"
Counting the number of stars in the known universe would seem to be a monstrous task akin to counting the number of grains of sand on all the world’s beaches. … [Read full article]