One of the Milky Way’s mystery stars may be from an alien galaxy
A mystery star located at the heart of the Milky Way could very well be from another galaxy, new research shows. The star is known as an S-star, and it …
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Dr. Dara Norman Wants to Bring More People Into Science
When Dr. Norman was taking a sabbatical at Howard University in 2015, she got a crash course in just how different access can be at a smaller institution, versus the …
Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski Will Change How You Think About Space
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She was also worried about the strong personalities she’d have to deal with in aerospace. “I was always scared something bad would happen and these private equity guys would just …
An astronaut gets a celestial burial
Space scientist Michael Lampton, on the far right, inside NASA’s Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1) Module, which was carried by the Space Shuttle in 1992 during its STS-45 …
Starquakes Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism
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That was a surprise—and a possible indication that something crucial was missing in those models: magnetism. Stellar Symmetry Last year, Gang Li, an asteroseismologist now at KU Leuven, went digging …
How a Stanford professor is organizing the search for alien life
On a cold December night in 1977 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a mysterious hovering object was reported to be flying overhead. Then a luminous hot molten rock fell to earth. …
Dr. Jessie Christiansen Wants to Help You Discover the Next Exoplanet
It’s hard to believe that just four decades ago, we had no idea whether planets existed outside our solar system. Scientists discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, and since then …
The Milky Way’s Stars Reveal Its Turbulent Past
To make maps of these structures, astronomers turn to individual stars. Each star’s composition records its birthplace, age, and natal ingredients, so studying starlight enables a form of galactic cartography—as …
The rapid rise of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet business
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is known for its frequent launches, which now dominate the space industry. But the satellites that the rockets send to space are just as important for the …
The Euclid Space Telescope’s Spectacular First Photos of Distant and Hidden Galaxies
Scientists leading the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope mission have just released its breathtaking first science images, taken only four months after launch. These new space photos reveal spectacular …