Distribution of newly found candidate (crosses) and known (dots) star clusters in galactic fields. The colors indicate the parallax of each cluster. Credit: He et al., 2022. By analyzing data from ESA’s Gaia satellite, astronomers from China West Normal University have detected 1,656 new star clusters in our Milky Way galaxy. The finding was featured …
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When it comes to the stars, our sun makes a lot of noise. Not only life on Earth literally revolve around it, it dwarfs the rest of the stars in the sky – from our perspective, at least. But if you zoom out to the far reaches of our galaxy, the sun doesn’t look like …
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The Mt. Rushmore of the major league sluggers earned a chiseled fourth face — this one with a dark, well-trimmed beard, a seemingly permanent scowl and a gold chain around his neck — when Albert Pujols clubbed the 700th shot. home run from his Hall-of-Celebrity Career in the Cardinals’ 11-0 victory at Dodger Stadium on …
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A demonstration of the hacked 60 fps version of star fox released this week (although this demo doesn’t go much over 30 fps, as shown in the bottom left corner). If you were a Nintendo kid in the 90s, you were probably blown away by how star fox and its SuperFX chip could render full …
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Astronomers have found the closest known black hole candidate to Earth, a silent beast nearly ten times more massive than the Sun just 1,570 light-years away from us*. It was found thanks to the antics of its Sun-like stellar companion, but how it became a puzzle [link to paper]. There are probably a hundred million …
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There is something very special about the Earth, apart from all the organisms crawling on it. It’s our star, the Sun, it’s weird: it’s a yellow dwarf. Sun-like stars are a minority in the Milky Way. It is estimated that less than 10% of the stars in our galaxy are G-type stars, like the Sun. …
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After controversial scorecards overshadowed their first two meetings, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin met for the third time on Saturday night in Las Vegas. This time around, Alvarez left little to debate that he was the better fighter, although the scorecards may have reflected a closer fight than the one that actually took place. …
The universe may contain extremely dense and exotic hypothetical cosmic objects known as strange quarks. As astrophysicists continue to debate the existence of quark stars, a team of physicists have discovered that the remnant of a neutron star merger observed in 2019 has just the right mass to be one of those strange quark stars. …
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You know the scientists: they give the coolest possible explanation to the public, then act like nerds and publish a paper years later saying something much more mundane. And the same goes for the first object that enters our solar system from a different location. Dubbed “Oumuamua,” scientists are still arguing over what the mysterious …
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TESS photometry of LP 890-9. For each of the four sectors, the 2-minute data points (in gray) were grouped into 30-minute intervals to produce the black dots, with error bars corresponding to the root mean square of the uncertainties of the points in the bins. The transits of LP 890-9 b and c are indicated …
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