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‘Star That Would Not Die’ Explodes for a Record 600 Days

November 8, 2017 admin astronomy, Exploding stars, space, Weird Supernovae, WTF Was That

Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 18:00:00 +0000

Most type II supernovae start to fade within 130 days, but this star couldn’t stop exploding.

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Astronomers Are ‘Racing Against Time’ as Humanity Clogs the Air With Radio Signals

October 17, 2017 admin ALIENS, astronomy, CHIME, E.T., gravitational waves, Interference, problems, Radio, radio astronomy, radio telescope, radio waves, Read, research, S.E.T.I., Satellites, smartphones

Credit to Author: Jacob Dubé| Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Interference is playing havoc with radio telescopes.

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Nobel Prize in Physics Recognizes the Dawn of a Whole New Kind of Astronomy

October 3, 2017 admin astronomy, Awards, Einstein, gravitational waves, Kip Thorne, LIGO, nobel prize, nobel prize in physics, physics, Rainer Weiss, Read, space, spacetime, vera rubin

Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:22:29 +0000

Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish are named for leading the effort to detect gravitational waves.

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This Huge Telescope is Built Like A Halfpipe and Hunts for Dark Energy

September 7, 2017 admin astronomy, astrophysics, Canada, Dark Energy, discoveries, Expansión, hubble constant, McGill, radio telescope, Read, Redshift, space, UBC, University of Toronto

Credit to Author: Jacob Dubé| Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:24:00 +0000

Dark energy is driving the accelerating expansion of the universe. No one knows what it is.

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Mystery Gravitational Lens Hints at Possible Primordial Black Holes, Dark Matter

August 25, 2017 admin astronomy, astrophysics, black holes, gravitational lens, Mysteries

Credit to Author: Michael Byrne| Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:00:00 +0000

At the very least, the new discovery offers a novel way of magnifying the distant cosmos.