Have We Detected Hundreds of Signals From Extraterrestrial Life?0
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- January 25, 2017
It’s a bold claim: A Canadian astronomer says he’s found not just one alien signal from a far-away world, but 234 of them.
It’s a bold claim: A Canadian astronomer says he’s found not just one alien signal from a far-away world, but 234 of them.
Study finds that if two black holes collide, they would release as much energy as 100 million supernova explosion.
“We’re made of star stuff,” astronomer Carl Sagan famously said. Nuclear reactions that happened in ancient stars generated much of the material that makes up our bodies, our planet and our solar system. When stars explode in violent deaths called supernovae, those newly formed elements escape and spread out in the universe.
The GOES-R satellite was one of the most eagerly anticipated satellites in recent memory. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched it in November 2016 with the promise to revolutionize weather forecasting in the U.S.
Last week, astronomers at Yale University reported seeing something unusual: a seemingly stedfast beacon from the far reaches of the Universe went quiet.
A black hole 11 million light-years away has gone dormant, a decade after being spotted consuming cosmic debris.
For the first time ever, ESO astronomers have been able to capture a clear image of a star system 11 quadrillion kilometers away using the combined forces of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain.
Scientists used NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover in recent weeks to examine slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying mud.
After a two-and-a-half-hour descent, the metallic, saucer-shaped spacecraft came to rest with a thud on a dark floodplain covered in cobbles of water ice, in temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing.
Eugene Cernan’s career was by any measure a triumph but a new profile spares a thought for the people left in his wake