Jun 30
Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star.
Jun 30
Along with satellites and space stations, Earth is surrounded by tens of millions of pieces of floating space debris. Like any landfill, the trash is diverse, ranging from dead satellites to castaway rocket parts to flecks of paint. On average, over the past 40 years, one piece of space junk has fallen to Earth every day.
Jun 30
A month after Galaxy Zoo was started and a small band of astronomers invited all comers to sift through millions of unclassified photos of never-before-seen patches of space, a primary-school teacher discovered what may be a totally novel type of celestial object, now known as Hanny’s Voorwerp.