by rmil2k | Jan 20, 2024 | News
Back to Article List We don’t yet have a solid understanding of all that is observed in the cosmos, and this leads to some intriguing notions. The Milky Way (green) lies in an area with little matter. The galaxies in the bubble move in the direction of the higher...
by rmil2k | Jan 19, 2024 | News
All stars form in giant molecular clouds of hydrogen. But some stars are extraordinarily massive; the most massive one we know of is about 200 times more massive than the Sun. How do these stars gain so much mass? Part of the answer is that they form in multiple star...
by rmil2k | Jan 19, 2024 | News
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by rmil2k | Jan 19, 2024 | News
The end has apparently come for the troubled Peregrine moon lander.Astrobotic lost contact with Peregrine at around 3:50 p.m. EST (2050 GMT) on Thursday afternoon (Jan. 18), the Pittsburgh-based company announced via X (formerly known as Twitter).”While this...
by rmil2k | Jan 19, 2024 | News
A combination of two images taken during a total solar eclipse in 2009 on the board of the ship in neighborhood of Iwo Jima Island. Credit: Marta and Michal Zolnowski On Monday, April 8, the sky’s most dramatic event occurs as the path of a total solar eclipse sweeps...