A recent paper revealed that astronomers had found water in the largest galaxy in the early universe using a telescope array known as ALMA. I […] Read More
Category: Cosmic Game Connections
Could one of the caves in Lascaux represent an ancient planetarium? Find out more about this possibility and see how I connect it to the […] Read More
To celebrate the season of jack ‘o’ lanterns and pumpkin spice, I found a discovery from a few years ago where astronomers used data from […] Read More
Earlier this year, astronomers announced that they had wound back the clock on a supernova explosion to find out where and when the star had […] Read More
Astronomers recently announced that they had found a black hole that might be toying away with a stellar companion — nibbling at it each time […] Read More
Earlier this year, NASA’s TESS mission announced its first discovery of an Earth-sized world in the planet’s habitable zone. TESS, which is short for Transiting […] Read More
The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope recently released its first image of the solar surface — the highest resolution image of the […] Read More
NASA’s NICER telescope recently released the first-ever surface map of a pulsar, which came with some surprises. How did this finding “break” the standard model […] Read More
Recently, NASA’s HaloSat completed its first year of science operations. This cubesat is working on one of the big mysteries of astronomy. In this video […] Read More
NASA recently announced that it’s planet hunter, TESS, had observed its first star shredded by a black hole in a tidal disruption event. What happened to that star? And what is TESS helping scientists learn about it? I talk about this and how the discovery connects to the game Clank!