Like all stars, our sun is powered by the fusion of hydrogen into heavy elements. Nuclear fusion is not only what makes stars shine, it is also the primary source of the chemical elements that make up the world around us. Much of our understanding of stellar fusion comes from …
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The Milky Way has merged with many other galaxies in its long lifespan, but stealing its history together has been a loving act. A new analysis of galactic clusters around the galaxy has now given us the most complete galactic merger history ever. And that data includes a previously unknown …
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At a distance of 5.5 billion light-years from the universe, a series of telescopes have captured a bright flash of short gamma-ray explosions. It reminds us that we are reminded of the Kilonova explosion associated with the neutron star collision, which we discovered on the back of a historic history …
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Five years ago, humanity still had to find gravitational waves. Now, the observations are moving at an astonishing pace. Over a six-month period last year, the LIGO-Virgin collaboration detected an average of 1.5 gravitational wave events per week. From 1 April to 1 October 2019, upgraded LIGOs and virgin interferometers …
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Zooming on a small corner of the cloud 7,500 light-years away, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured an interesting phase in the evolution of Baby Stars. It is called J025157.5 + 600606, and is the only (relatively) small bulge in the giant Soul Nebula (also known as Westerhaut 5) in …
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