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why the hunt for planet nine is still underway
Astronomers have been looking for a ninth planet — by the newer definition of the word — for a few years now and so far, with little luck. If it does exist, it would be an oddball largely made of gas...
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a baby star and a cloud of organic molecules may help us in the search for...
Young solar systems still trying to form out of a disk of gas and dust are fascinating places that can hold answers to many mysteries about our own origins. Take the protoplanetary disk around V883...
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unmasking a monster: a “stunning confirmation” of black hole theory
When Avery Broderick initially saw the first image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), he thought it was too good to be true. After playing a critical role in the project since its inception in...
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world of weird things podcast: a (theoretical) peek inside a black hole
Now that everyone saw and talked about the EHT black hole image, it’s probably a good time to catch up on all the details the popular explainers missed, like what’s inside a black hole, what happens...
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world of weird things podcast: look, up in the sky! it’s super-earth!
Of all the stellar objects talked about in popular science, Super-Earths are almost criminally underrated, which is a shame because they represent some of the best places to find life, are an...
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it’s no teegarden party: the catch about the latest exoplanetary discovery
The universe is stranger than we can imagine, so when a star system is discovered with some familiar traits to ours, it can be hard not to imagine extraterrestrial lifeforms and interstellar getaways....
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wowt explains: what is a black hole?
Over the century or so that we’ve been interested in black holes, we’ve gotten so comfortable with the term that it barely phases us when it’s mentioned. But much of what we typically think we know...
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wowt explains: what is a dyson sphere?
Imagine that you live on an ancient, distant planet orbiting a dying star. Your world relies on its light to survive and as it fades, it gets colder and more hostile to live in the place your species...
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why planet nine is very unlikely to be a tiny black hole
Since the 1880s, astronomers have been hunting for some way to explain the odd motion of small objects past the orbit of Neptune, typically a planet massive enough to be a super-Earth or a smaller gas...
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so, what shape is the universe?
Early last month, a paper claiming that we’ve misunderstood the shape of our universe made the media rounds on popular science sites before being mocked by The Daily Show because the only nerds Trevor...
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unmasking a monster: a “stunning confirmation” of black hole theory
When Avery Broderick initially saw the first image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), he thought it was too good to be true. After playing a critical role in the project since its inception in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
world of weird things podcast: a (theoretical) peek inside a black hole
Now that everyone saw and talked about the EHT black hole image, it’s probably a good time to catch up on all the details the popular explainers missed, like what’s inside a black hole, what happens...
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world of weird things podcast: look, up in the sky! it’s super-earth!
Of all the stellar objects talked about in popular science, Super-Earths are almost criminally underrated, which is a shame because they represent some of the best places to find life, are an...
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it’s no teegarden party: the catch about the latest exoplanetary discovery
The universe is stranger than we can imagine, so when a star system is discovered with some familiar traits to ours, it can be hard not to imagine extraterrestrial lifeforms and interstellar getaways....
View ArticleClik here to view.
wowt explains: what is a black hole?
Over the century or so that we’ve been interested in black holes, we’ve gotten so comfortable with the term that it barely phases us when it’s mentioned. But much of what we typically think we know...
View ArticleClik here to view.
wowt explains: what is a dyson sphere?
Imagine that you live on an ancient, distant planet orbiting a dying star. Your world relies on its light to survive and as it fades, it gets colder and more hostile to live in the place your species...
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why planet nine is very unlikely to be a tiny black hole
Since the 1880s, astronomers have been hunting for some way to explain the odd motion of small objects past the orbit of Neptune, typically a planet massive enough to be a super-Earth or a smaller gas...
View ArticleClik here to view.
so, what shape is the universe?
Early last month, a paper claiming that we’ve misunderstood the shape of our universe made the media rounds on popular science sites before being mocked by The Daily Show because the only nerds Trevor...
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astronomers find more dark matter free galaxies
Just in case you thought cosmologists moved any closer to understanding dark matter over the last year, prepare to be disappointed. While a proposed discovery claimed to find two galaxies that lacked...
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a planet four times the size of its star shows how solar systems die
As you no doubt learned in elementary school, stars are big and bright, and planets are dim and small. So, following that basic logic, there’s absolutely no way that one could have a planet four times...
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