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The LIGO discovery, the finding of a merger of 30-solar-mass black holes made astronomers question just how common black holes of such enormous sizes are and the frequency of their mergers. Astronomers of the University of California, Irvine led by UC…

The largest diamond in the cosmos is not found on Earth. In reality, it is a white dwarf star called BPM 37093 or V886 Centauri. An " extinct " or " dead " star is a white dwarf star. Diamond-shaped V886 Centauri floats in outer sp…

It's difficult to look at the Sun. You will incur eye injury if you do it yourself. If you perform it on Earth with very sophisticated scientific equipment, you'll observe that the atmosphere gets in the way.  You must look from space for t…

Gliese 710, also known as HIP 89825, is a 0.6 M ☉  orange star in the constellation Serpens Cauda. It is expected to pass close to the Sun in approximately 1.29 million years, at a minimum distance of 0.1663 light-years (10,520 astronomical units) (ab…

These beautifully real images are some of the closest images of Jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the So…

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) used the iconic Hubble Space Telescope to take a stunning image of a massive galaxy (NGC 169) pulling cosmic material away from a smaller galaxy (IC 1559).  ESA wrote: "As common as these interactions …

It's difficult to look at the Sun. You will incur eye injury if you do it yourself. If you perform it on Earth with very sophisticated scientific equipment, you'll observe that the atmosphere gets in the way. You must look from space for the b…

The existential notion of Earth-sized inhabitable exoplanets seems to be confronting our conventional understanding of the vast cosmos. However, the observations made by the Kepler spacecraft infer that one out of every five sun-like stars house an Ea…

The LIGO discovery, the finding of a merger of 30-solar-mass black holes made astronomers question just how common black holes of such enormous sizes are and the frequency of their mergers. Astronomers of the University of California, Irvine led by UC…

Passage of time is faster for your face than for your feet (supposing you’re standing up). Einstein’s theory of relativity states that the nearer you are to the center of the Earth, the slower time passes – and this has been already measured . For an …

Deep down in the Pattern of Centarus lies a star about 50 light years far from the Earth. This star is so distinctive that astrophysicists nicknamed it “Lucy.”  Lucy, also identified as  V886Centauri and BPM 37093 , is just a white dwarf star…