Stars will continue to explode long after the universe is cold and “dead,” one scientist determined in diving down the rabbit hole to find the last supernova that will ever happen.
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Ingenuity Mars helicopter recharges its batteries in flight
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter received a checkout and recharge of its power system on Friday, Aug. 7, one week into its near seven-month journey to Mars with the Perseverance rover. This marks the first time the helicopter has been powered up and its batteries have been charged in the space […]
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Hubble finds that Betelgeuse’s mysterious dimming is due to a traumatic outburst
Recent observations of Betelgeuse have revealed that the star’s unexpected and significant dimming periods in late 2019 and early 2020 were most likely caused by the ejection and cooling of dense hot gases, and that the star may be going through another dimming period more than a year early.
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The bizarre dimming of bright star Betelgeuse caused by giant stellar eruption
Betelgeuse’s odd recent dimming was caused by a huge cloud of material that the supergiant star blasted into space, a new study suggests.
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Scientists probe the weird, alien water inside of Uranus and Neptune
Researchers are investigating an alien version of water inside the strange, icy interiors of Uranus and Neptune.
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Video: ESA’s meteor camera captures the Perseid showers
The Perseids meteor shower is one of the most spectacular annual meteor showers. Made of debris from comet Swift-Tuttle they have been observed by sky-watchers for thousands of years and this year the LIC1 camera of the Canary Long-Baseline Observatory (CILBO) at Tenerife captured the peak of the 2020 Perseid […]
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Physicists calculate when the last supernova ever will happen
The end of the universe as we know it will not come with a bang. Most stars will slowly fizzle as their temperatures fade to zero.
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Students grow ‘rocket lettuce’ from space seeds
While British astronaut Tim Peake was on board at the International Space Station in 2015 and 2016, he supported a project involving a pack of “rocket lettuce” (arugula) seeds, snapping multiple pictures during the seeds’ six months in space. Students across the United Kingdom then grew those seeds back on […]
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Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico suffers serious damage after cable breaks
The iconic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has gone dark, at least for a little while.
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Watch live @ 7 pm ET: Slooh livestreams the Perseid meteor shower
Video courtesy of Slooh. Visit Slooh.com to snap and share your own photos from this live event, and interact with our hosts and guests, and personally control Slooh’s telescopes.