The month that had it all. Firsts in space exploration, fantastic maps of the sky, extraterrestrials.
Tag: astrophysics
Last month in science: huge amounts of matter and huge amounts of energy get accounted for. Also, selfies from another world.
What a month… from the sky to the labs. Dazzling stuff from asteroids, supergiant stars, the Higgs and other cool-sounding particles.
Beautiful storms, complicated light, galactic vastness, a wave of antibiotics…
A visible black hole, lost-and-found matter, baby planets.
So many things happened during this bombshell month that I don’t know where to start. Black hole photos, fast radio bursts, antineutrinos, gravity, clocks, orbits…
Talking about women overlooked for the prestigious prize.
…But when you dress up, you use the dust of neutron stars.
In last month’s news a black hole photobombs an asteroid, a hundred new mini planets are revealed and we still don’t know what dark matter is.
Fast radio bursts are one of the outstanding celestial mysteries. As was written here last month, these super-energetic flashes have been puzzling everyone who cares enough since 2007 when the first one was detected. However, a few which were found…