It’s time for another episode of Walkabout the Galaxy, with discussion of the origins of life on Earth, disco balls in space, Star Trek (of course), hunchbacks, and more. In other words, just another typical…
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In an interesting piece of detective work, scientists reasoned that the oldest stars in the Milky Way formed in the same environment as the galaxy’s dark matter. Information on the study from Princeton is here.…
One of the largest asteroids, 4 Vesta, has a unique spectrum that matches some meteorites that is a clue that those meteorites are actually chunks knocked off of Vesta at some point. Analysis of the…
Last year we witnessed the dawn of a new kind of astronomy with multiple detections of violent, energetic events in the universe not by the light they produce, but by the ripples they produced in…
Join the astroquarks for a look back at a remarkable year. There were lots of exciting discoveries in the cosmological realm to distract us from our more terrestrial concerns, and boy did we need them!…