Despite all the fuss about the total solar eclipse last April, the event didn’t inspire much conspiracy thinking. The same can’t be said for the comet that flies over Ruby Todd’s debut novel, “Bright Objects.” Todd’s comet, named St. John, is a fictionalized version of Comet Hale-Bopp, which visited our solar system in 1997 and … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked trusted source proofread OK! Pillars of creation visualization. Credits: Greg Bacon (STScI), Ralf Crawford (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI), Christian Nieves (STScI), Joseph Olmsted (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Frank Summers (STScI), NASA’s learning universe × close to Pillars of creation visualization. Credits: Greg Bacon … Read more
Westerlund 1 is the largest and closest ‘super’ star cluster to Earth. New data from NASA’s Chandra These are the first data released publicly from a project called the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey, or EWOCS, led by astronomers at Italy’s National Institute of Astrophysics in Palermo. As part of EWOCS, Chandra … Read more
I remember it clearly: I was at EGX 2015 in Birmingham, and one match made my head turn like a doorknob. It wasn’t one of the blockbusters, or one of the games with a flashy mode, but a much smaller game on a few screens, nestled among many others. On that screen it looked like … Read more