Saturn’s rings are so amazing that they have helped us learn that Saturn’s core is a sludgy-soupy beast that doesn’t have a sharp boundary. And the waves in the rings are like the Milky Way’s…
Category: Astrophysics
It’s a tale of pairs and “self-coupling”, which causes Top quark endless mirth, in this episode, with Higgs boson pairs, self-annihilating photon pairs producing antimatter (in an electron/positron pair), and a pair of oddly red…
These days it goes without saying that the universe is the same in every direction, at least on large scales. Or is it? We take a look at a new result from the Sloane Digital…
A quackery of astroquarks takes a close look at neutron stars thanks to observations from the NICER observatory on the International Space Station and some clever scientific modeling that reveals these rapidly spinning stellar remnants…
Not all dark matter is “dark matter” dark matter. Some is simply dark, well, matter. An Australian radio telescope has found a long filament of cold plasma from the scintillations it produces in the radio…