Astronomy

April 14, 2023

Supermassive Black Hole Speeding Through Universe Is Creating Stars

Black holes are famous for their gravitational power. The celestial phenomenon draws in matter with a powerful gravitational force through a process called accretion. This powerful force can even destroy stars by ripping them apart. NASA has recently discovered a surprising twist on this classic narrative. A supermassive black hole, ejected from its own galaxy, has been streaking across the universe, actually forming stars in its wake.

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February 16, 2023

Astronomers Discover Surprising Rings Around Dwarf Planet Quaoar

The Solar System is a source of constant amazement. As telescope and imaging technology improves, astronomers learn more about distant worlds we can barely see. One of these is the icy dwarf planet Quaoar, only a third of the diameter of Earth’s moon. It orbits our Sun about 4 billion miles from Earth in the Kuiper belt, a strip of frozen space debris that includes Pluto.

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January 29, 2023

Tiny Meteorite Collected in 2021 Contains the Building Blocks of Life

Meteorites are chunks of space rock that make it through our atmosphere to land on Earth. When quickly identified and recovered, the extraterrestrial rock can tell astronomers a lot about the composition of the universe and even how life began on Earth. Meteorites can show evidence of minerals not seen on our planet or what looks like fossilized bacteria from Mars.

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