We can’t see it, barely understand it, but know that it exists because of the powerful influence it exerts on space. Dark matter makes up…
Satellites may have been underestimating the planet’s warming for decades / livescience.com
The global warming that has already taken place may be even worse than we thought. That’s the takeaway from a new study that finds satellite measurements…
10 Images… Artist’s impression of black hole
Supermassive Black Hole, Artwork by Victor Habbick Visions An artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Image…
‘Stranger than anything dreamed up by sci-fi’: will we ever understand black holes?/ theguardian.com
In the new documentary Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know, the work of Stephen Hawking and others in trying to figure out a…
Supermassive black holes devour gas just like their petite counterparts / news.mit.edu
On Sept. 9, 2018, astronomers spotted a flash from a galaxy 860 million light years away. The source was a supermassive black hole about 50…
THE SEARCH FOR RARE SPECIES OF AURORA / supercluster.com
From China and Japan to Scandinavia and beyond, people from all over the planet have their own supernatural interpretations of the aurorae. In the His Dark…
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have pockets of water in its icy shell /techregister.co.uk
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have pockets of water in its icy shell that could support life, study finds Researchers studied images of features on the…
Watch the Moon turn red during this month’s total lunar eclipse/astronomy.com
Total eclipses of the Moon are fun. During one of these events, the entire Moon passes through Earth’s umbra, the innermost and darkest part of…
Telescopes Combine in Latest Observations of Famous Black Hole Across the Entire Electromagnetic Spectrum /robologiclab.com/
In April 2019, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), researchers issued the first image of a black hole in galaxy M87. Yet, that exceptional act…
Nova Cassiopeia 2021 suddenly brightens into naked-eye visibility / astronomynow.com
Nova Cas 2021 (V1405 Cas) has brightened by around two magnitudes in the past few days. The image on the left shows it on 5…