Researchers have found evidence of a star coming out of its orbit with another star in a “partial supernova”, which is now hurtling through the Milky Way. The star, which has about 40 percent of the mass of our sun, travels at 559,234 mph. Scientists from the University of Warwick …
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Kite Neowise It is not the only cosmic phenomenon visible in the sky this weekend. On Sunday, July 19, sky watchers will be able to look up and spot five planets and the crescent moon, all without even using a telescope. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, as well as …
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Artistic conception: the supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of hot gas and the X-ray corona (shown in bluish white). The pink streak is the debris falling into the black hole: the shattered remains of a runaway star. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech Two years ago, astronomers were confused as …
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You may have heard a buzz recently over a comet that some have been lucky enough to spot with their own eyes. Last week, we discussed the possibilities of seeing the comet in central Indiana. The only problem was that you had to be a real early riser to take …
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It seems that the universe has a strange sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has rushed around the world, a completely different corona about 100 million light-years from Earth has mysteriously disappeared. For the first time, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have seen how the corona of a supermassive …
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