Explorando os Enigmas do Superuniverso
Neighbors are the worst. One of the unfortunate downsides of urbanization is that we now have to put up with other people and all their weirdness. While most of us have to put up with minor inconveniences like property line disputes or loud vehicles, a neighborhood in Dorset, England is currently going through a squabble […]
When former The Simpsons guest star Stephen Hawking passed in March, he left behind a lifetime worth of invaluable contributions to the world of theoretical astrophysics. Aside from his distinguished life’s work, Hawking left behind his last unpublished paper which simplifies the mind-bending concept of the multiverse by reaching the conclusion that there exists a […]
My previous article was titled “A Strange Tale of Aleister Crowley, John Dee and Loch Ness.” It took a look at the weird saga of how Loch Ness Monster-seeker F.W. “Ted” Holiday found himself, in the early 1970s, plunged into a strange world that involved the long-dead John Dee, Edward Kelly and Aleister Crowley – […]
Advertisement These images were released recently after being processed by members of the public (we had another batch last week). NASA puts raw images from Juno’s JunoCam online, and people can then improve them. Most of these come from Juno’s latest flyby of the gas giant, its seventh close science flyby, which took place on […]
Advertisement A potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), estimated to be around 300 meters in size, is expected to pass by the Earth on Wednesday, May 9. The space rock, designated 2008 TZ3, will fly by our planet at 10:06 UTC at a safe distance of about 6.5 lunar distances (LD), what corresponds to 2.5 million kilometers. […]
Advertisement Two astronomers from the University of Madrid have just published a paper which ‘confirms’ fears that a star called Gliese 710 will come unnervingly close to our solar system. Although this will not be a head-on collision, the prodigal sun will scorch through the Oort cloud – a ring of icy objects that surround […]
Advertisement Sometimes the most amazing discoveries can happen just by chance. Case in point: an international team of astronomers accidentally photographed what they think is a planet in the process of growing bigger, 600 light-years away. The star in question is a binary called CS Cha, located in a star-forming region in the southern constellation of Chamaeleon. […]
Advertisement A groundbreaking experiment in physics has for the first time provided a precise measurement of a force between electrons and protons called the weak nuclear force. The value 0.0719 (give or take 0.0045) won’t mean much to most of us, but the way they did it makes way for some exciting possibilities for pushing […]
Advertisement Proving Albert Einstein wrong is something that only a small number of scientists can claim to have done but now, more than 100,000 gamers can join that exclusive club and enjoy the smugness that comes with it. In 2016, scientists from around the world led by the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona (ICFO) asked people to […]
Advertisement Our Milky Way galaxy contains tens of billions of potentially habitable planets, but we have no idea whether we’re alone. For now Earth is the only world known to harbor life, and among all the living things on our planet we assume Homo sapiens is the only species ever to have developed advanced technology. But maybe that’s assuming […]