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May 28, 2020 Astronomy

The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid May Have Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle

The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid May Have Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle This much we knew: some 66 million years

May 13, 2020 Astronomy

The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr.

Sky Writer: The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr. | The Underground Bunker Every serious amateur

May 6, 2020 Telescopes

What is a Plossl eyepiece?

What is a PlÃ¶ssl eyepiece? Plossl are some of the most popular low cost eyepieces for telescope users. A

May 4, 2020 Astronomy / Solar

Sun ‘less active’ than similar stars

The Sun is less magnetically active and shows less variability in its brightness than similar stars in the galaxy,

May 2, 2020 Telescopes

Sandia National Laboratories: Seeing stars

Sandia National Laboratories: Seeing stars Sandia team designs a new way for additive manufacturing Source: www.sandia.gov/news/publications/labnews/articles/2018/16-02/telescope.html

May 2, 2020 Mars

Promising signs for Perseverance rover in its quest for past Martian life

Promising signs for Perseverance rover in its quest for past Martian life New research indicates river delta deposits

April 30, 2020 Cosmology

A long-lost type of dark matter may resolve the biggest disagreement in physics

“We Exist Within a Colossal Sphere” –The Void that Harbors the Milky Way (Weekend Feature) | The Daily Galaxy

April 29, 2020 Cosmology

Double-Peak and Destroy: Accretion in a Tidal Disruption Event Reveals Itself

Double-Peak and Destroy: Accretion in a Tidal Disruption Event Reveals Itself Astrobites reports on the first confident detection of

April 28, 2020 Astronomy

Swift Mission Observed Water from Interstellar Comet Borisov – Astrobiology

For the first time, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss from an interstellar comet as it approached and

April 28, 2020 Astronomy / Exoplanets

Searching Pulsars for Planets

Searching Pulsars for Planets A new study explores whether there are any exoplanets orbiting the well-observed NANOGrav pulsars.

April 25, 2020 Astronomy

Nineteen mysterious invaders from another Solar System spotted hanging around the outside edge of ours

Nineteen mysterious invaders from another Solar System spotted hanging around the outside edge of ours Plus astroboffins confirm

April 21, 2020 Astronomy / Exoplanets

New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet

New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet Two new separate studies published in Nature

April 20, 2020 Mars

Unlike Earth, Maybe Mars Didn’t Form With a Subsurface Magma Ocean

Unlike Earth, Maybe Mars Didn’t Form With a Subsurface Magma Ocean Researchers thought Mars formed — and potentially

April 18, 2020 Cosmology

The Universe may not look the same in all directions after all – Astronomy Now

The Universe may not look the same in all directions after all – Astronomy Now One of the core

Stream of local stars formed in another galaxy is evidence of The Milky Way’s violent history

Neowise Comet C/2020 F3 Can Be Seen With Naked Eye

Australian Space Agency funds locally-designed space suits

Scientists spot flash of light from colliding black holes. But how?

ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world

Did Galaxies Grow from Quantum Static?

You can help a Mars Rover’s AI learn to tell rocks from dirt – TechCrunch

CERN makes bold push to build €21-billion super-collider

eROSITA X-Ray Telescope Captures Hot, Energetic Universe

ESOblog: Twinkle, twinkle little star, but not on our watch