Why it’s good news that Pluto doesn’t have rings
New Horizons’ next destination might be ring-free, too, promising a safe passage for the spacecraft LOOKING BACK New Horizons took th...Read More
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Showing posts with label Atom & Cosmos. Show all posts
Discovery launches new era of gravitational wave science
Summary: The first observation of gravitational waves has been discovered by by three different detectors, marking a new era of greate...Read More
Cold atoms are being launched into space. This video reveals why
The Bose-Einstein condensate is a recently discovered state of matter, but why has this strange conglomerate of cold atoms captivated bot...Read More
Pluto’s pits, ridges and famous plain get official names
LOTS OF LOVE Pluto’s iconic heart, which scientists informally named after the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik, is now officially Sputnik ...Read More
X-ray rings reveal neutron star’s distance - Dust cloud reflections plus trigonometry puts Circinus X-1 at 31,000 light-years away
BULL’S-EYE A blast of X-rays from a neutron star (center) illuminate dust clouds between the star and Earth (colored rings), as seen i...Read More
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