A solid glowing crystal will remain after the death of the sun
An analysis of the data collected by the ESA Gaia satellite showed that white dwarfs, remnants of stars like our Sun, begin to crystallize at some point in their life cycle,...
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How fast a black hole rotates?
A torn star helped to measure the speed of black hole rotation. Based on the data on the absorption of the star by a supermassive black hole, the researchers measured the...
Popular Science challenge: can you make it through the world’s hardest maze?
I just started working on this maze. It looks easy, but you have to proceed by passing colored dots in red, green, yellow order. Is it cheating to work backward? Does it help?
How to improve your rubber band shooting with science!
When I was very little, my big brother brought me in to school for show-and-tell. In the lunchroom, a kid fired a rubber band that hit me right in the face. I still remember...
The Science Fiction Writers of America inducts William Gibson as its next Grand Master
What an excellent choice! Dr William Gibson, Grand Master of Science Fiction has such a nice ring to it. Go Bill! You can watch him get his award at the next Nebula Awards...
The Triangulum spiral galaxy
The Hubble Space Telescope received the most detailed image of the Milky Way’s nearest neighbor – the Triangle spiral galaxy, located at a distance of three...
Chinese lunar rover Jade Rabbit 2 includes equipment, preparing to fulfill its mission
All systems of the new Chinese lunar rover are turned on and are in full alert after the first landing in history on the far side of the moon, the Chinese National Space...
An important step towards understanding the behavior of matter in dead stars and gas giants
Physicists from Rice University (USA) created the first laser-cooled neutral plasma in the world, which scientists have been fighting for over two decades to obtain. A...
The upcoming collision with Andromeda galaxy could throw the solar system out of the Milky Way
A catastrophic merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud after 2 billion years can awaken a dormant supermassive black hole in our Galaxy, and although its high-energy radiation...
Evidence of dark matter heating and movement
Analysis of the distribution of dark matter in nearby dwarf galaxies has provided astronomers with the first observational evidence that it can “warm up” and migrate under the...