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As weird as it might sound, black holes appear to be holograms. In the 1980’s physicist Jacob Bekenstein was able to calculate exactly how much a black hole grew. If you add a single bit of information to a black hole, its surface area increases by exactly one...
2023’s highlight was the highly anticipated launch of Juice, Europe’s Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer. The Juice spacecraft was placed on course to Jupiter on the second-to-last Ariane 5 launch vehicle in April. After an eight-year journey, Juice will begin observing...
Three months ago, scientists spotted tiny, short-lived energy jets surfacing from dark regions in the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere. Upon closer look, these jets appeared as bright flashes everywhere on the sun's disk. They lasted only 20 to 100 seconds...
Time gets a little strange as you approach the speed of light. FlashMovie/Shutterstock Will it ever be possible for time travel to occur? – Alana C., age 12, Queens, New York Have you ever dreamed of traveling through time, like characters do in science fiction...
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M), located at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, is one of the most ambitious neutrino observatories in the world. Behind this observatory is the IceCube...
As the holiday season swiftly approaches, frosty landscapes tend to be associated with the magical idea of a white Christmas. But this Copernicus Sentinel-3 image over the Antarctica Peninsula sheds light on a different perspective.Zoom in to explore this image...
The moon will meet up with Saturn, the solar system's second-largest planet, on Sunday (Dec. 17) when the two celestial bodies make a close approach. The moon will be almost half-illuminated during the close approach, and at around the same time, the two...
Back to Article List With the new tech, researchers can gaze into the diffuse light and understand the large scale of the universe The Abell 85 galaxy cluster surrounded with a hazy teal colored instracluster light. Credit: Astronomical Data/Image: M. Montes...
It’s a classic tale of apocalyptic fiction. The Sun, our precious source of heat and light, collapses into a black hole. Or perhaps a stray black hole comes along and swallows it up. The End is Nigh! If a stellar-mass black hole swallowed our Sun, then we’d...
Agency 15/12/2023 1135 views 44 likes Space is becoming ever more important to life on Earth – from managing climate change to responding to emergencies to digitalising the economy. To help policymakers and businesses take informed decisions about investing in...