A Black Hole Disrupts a Passing Star
What happens to a star that goes near a black hole? If the star directly impacts a massive black hole,
Continuer la lectureWhat happens to a star that goes near a black hole? If the star directly impacts a massive black hole,
Continuer la lectureDespite their resemblance to R2D2, these three are not the droids you’re looking for. Instead, the enclosures house 1.8 meter
Continuer la lectureA mere 280 light-years from Earth, tidally locked, Jupiter-sized exoplanet WASP-43b orbits its parent star once every 0.8 Earth days.
Continuer la lectureMajestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. The large galaxy of
Continuer la lectureTo some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish. However, this colorful cosmic portrait really features glowing gas
Continuer la lectureThe star system GK Per is known to be associated with only two of the three nebulas pictured. At 1500
Continuer la lectureThree bright objects satisfied seasoned stargazers of the western sky just after sunset earlier this month. The most familiar was
Continuer la lectureThe Ring Nebula (M57) is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is
Continuer la lectureIf the Sun is up but the sky is dark and the horizon is bright all around, you might be
Continuer la lectureIn northern hemisphere spring, bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the
Continuer la lecture