Scientists have created a super white paint called Vantablake’s Yang to Yin. Ultra black materials today can absorb more than .9999.66 percent sunlight, this new super white coat can reflect .5..5 percent of all the photons it strikes. Instead of heating under direct light, items painted with this new acrylic …
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The big brother Majestic Jupiter is pushing the best side of our solar system. A sharp new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the vast, ever-evolving climate of a giant planet – showing both short- and long-term changes. In the Northern Hemisphere, storm clouds may indicate the formation of …
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For the first time, pressure more than 100 times found in the Earth’s core has been generated in a lab, setting a new record. Using the highest energy laser system in the world, physicists have subjected short solid hydrocarbon samples to pressures up to 450 megabars, which means 450 million …
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In 1604, a white dwarf star went supernova. This is very normal behavior for a white dwarf star; but this one, at a distance of just 20,000 light-years from Earth, was visible to the naked eye, and documented by astronomers around the world, including the German astronomer Johannes Kepler. Kepler’s …
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Astronomers have detected a dazzling flash of ultraviolet light from an exploding white dwarf for the second time, and could give researchers important clues as to what stimulates the disappearance of these ancient worn-out stars. The researchers noticed this unusual supernova, called SN2019yvq, last December, just one day after the …
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