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Astronomers Find Real-Life Tatooine
French astronomers think they have found Tatooine in real life, and we didn’t even have to travel to a galaxy far, far away (well, it’s still kind of far). The fictional home of Luke Skywalker is called 2MASS0103(AB)b in real life, and it revolves around two suns that move relatively close together. Basically, this planet is in the binary star system, just like Tatooine.
You’ve Never Seen So Many Stars Squeezed Into One Tiny Room
As digital displays are becoming more common, good old-fashioned projectors are getting rarer. That includes the hulking beasts that are planetarium projectors, those often massive, rotating behemoths that spout out views of the entire sky.
Gift Guide: Heavenly Gifts For The Star Gazer
We all have one of those friends who seems more interested in the rest of the universe than our home planet. They’re glued to NASA TV, they’re awed by every new image from the Hubble telescope, and nothing makes them happier than a clear, cloudless night. And if there’s someone on your list fascinated by the stars, here are some great suggestions to get your shopping done early.
Researchers Find The Universe’s Very First Stars
We already knew that the universe had a distinct starting point, and now researchers at MIT have actually seen the very first stars born from that beginning.
Dive Right Into The Largest Ever Image Of Our Galaxy’s Centre
You are looking at more than 84 million stars, the largest ever catalogue of the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Astronomers at the Paranal Observatory in Cerro Paranal, Chile, stitched the nine gigapixels of the original image from thousands of individual infrared pictures. You can see the full, zoomable version here.
A Black Hole Devouring A Star Is One Hell Of An Amazing View
Look at this star turned into a fire dragon by a single point of nothingness with the mass of three million suns — its body twisted and deformed as a black beast 2.7 billion light-years away devours it with infinite hunger.
Scientists Create Star Matter In California
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.
