You’re looking at the heart of the most powerful X-Ray laser machine ever created by humans, billions of times stronger than anything before it. It’s the Linac Coherent Light Source and it has created something that nobody has made before in this planet: the kind of matter that you can only find in the heart of stars and giant planets. More »
Astronomers have found two more new planets orbiting binary stars: Kepler-34b and Kepler-35b. Their discovery, which follow the original Tatooine discovery back in September 2011, is quite important: now we know there are millions of planets orbiting binary stars. More »
This is the fastest spinning star in the universe yet. Rotating at a mind-blowing 1.6 million kilometres per hour, it’s so fast that its shape is not a sphere anymore. They call it VFTS 102. I call it Burger Star. More »
have confirmed what it seemed inevitable: a planet orbiting a binary star. It’s no Tatooine but a Saturn-sized gas planet twisting around two stars about 1.5 and 4.5 smaller than our sun. More »
Back in late March, NASA’s Swift satellite detected a strange and unusual energy explosion in the constellation Draco. NASA now knows what it was: “the awakening of a distant galaxy’s dormant black hole as it shredded and consumed a star.” More »
