Space

Secret Life of Lithium in Sun-like Stars: Created, Not Just Destroyed

Lithium is becoming common in our everyday lives. It is the key ingredient in the batteries of our mobile phones and electric vehicles, but have you ever wondered where it comes from? A new study that was published in Nature Astronomy and was led by Prof. ZHAO Gang and Dr. Yerra Bharat Kumar from the ...

Troy Oakes

The Milky Way Galaxy.

Hubble Captures 1 Galaxy, 2 Asteroids

At first sight, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope portrays the sparkling stars of AGC111977, a dwarf galaxy located around 15 million light-years away and visible in the lower left part of the image. Other galaxies appear sprinkled across the frame, along with foreground stars from our own galaxy, the Milky Way. After ...

Troy Oakes

The dwarf galaxy AGC111977.

Scientific ‘Red Flag’ Reveals New Clues About Our Galaxy

Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way — a discovery reported in the July 3 edition of the journal Science Advances — could yield new clues to the fundamental source of our galaxy’s power, said L. Matthew Haffner of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The Milky Way’s nucleus thrums with hydrogen that has been ...

Troy Oakes

Optical Milky Way image.

Water on the Moon: Launching a Space Economy

The existence of water, in the form of ice, has been confirmed on the Moon. The evidence has given NASA potential ideas for establishing a space economy, which can propel the future of lunar expeditions. Water on the Moon  In mid-2018, a team of scientists, headed by Shuai Li of the University of Hawaii and ...

Armin Auctor

Astronaut near Lunar Lander leg on the Moon.

Strangest Planets in Our Universe

Our universe is not made of stars and planets that are neatly ordered into infinity. There are numerous anomalies, strange systems, and wonderful sights all within the observable part of the universe. What’s happening over on the other side is anyone’s guess. We’ve been taught about the planets in our solar system and we’re quite ...

Armin Auctor

The observable universe.

The Complicated Science of Parallel Universes

When physicists talk about the universe, they don’t really mean the entire universe. They’re referring to the observable universe. And that’s not much. It’s just the part we’ve so far been able to see. When physicists talk about the multiverse or parallel universes, they are referring to distinct hypothesized models for the universe. These are ...

Armin Auctor

Parallel universes.

Our Deepest View of the X-Ray Sky

Over the course of 182 days, the eROSITA X-ray telescope has completed its first full sweep of the sky that it embarked upon about a year ago. This new map of the hot, energetic universe contains more than 1 million objects, roughly doubling the number of known X-ray sources discovered over the 60-year history of ...

Troy Oakes

The Andromeda Galaxy.