October 29, 2017
What better way to say farewell than with a slew of costume pictures from this year s (coming) Halloween? Happy Halloween 2017! From Ethan Siegel and Starts With A Bang. Keep looking to the Universe. And we ll have a lifetime of wonderful things to still explore.
Goodbye, Scienceblogs,…
October 28, 2017 Delay is the deadliest form of denial. -C. Northcote Parkinson
Every massless particle and wave travels at the speed of light when it moves through a vacuum. Over a distance of 130 million light years, the gamma rays and gravitational waves emitted by merging neutron stars arrived offset by a…
October 27, 2017
“On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?” –Victor Francis Hess
2 JANUARY 2021
You know how stars do. They re out there, doing their thing, fusing a whole bunch of hydrogen into helium, shining up the joint.
But some stars are just a little bit different from the norm. Not content with simply lighting up the night sky like a giant disco, they zoom, shimmer, dim and even hang around seeming to be older than the actual Universe. These are our galaxy s oddballs, and we love each and every one.
Need for speed: PSR J0002+6216
(J. English/University of Manitoba/NRAO/F. Schinzel et al./DRAO/Canadian Galactic Plane Survey/NASA/IRAS)
We re not sure where the star named PSR J0002+6216 is headed, but we know it s heading there fast. It s travelling at the absolutely breakneck speed of 1,130 kilometres per second (700 miles per second). That could take it from Earth to the Moon in six minutes.