Standard candles closer than they appear
Cepheids, a particular kind of stars, may actually be closer to us than we thought. They are, among others, used […]
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Cepheids, a particular kind of stars, may actually be closer to us than we thought. They are, among others, used […]
Fermi, NASA’s gamma-ray telescope, has detected antimatter particle beams produced by thunderstorms. This is the first time such a phenomenon […]
The discovery of Kepler-10b, the first rocky extrasolar planet, was confirmed yesterday by NASA’s Kepler mission. Only 1.4 times the […]
For a few decades, the coronal heating has been a complete mystery to astronomers: why is the Sun’s corona temperature […]
Voyager 1, which left the Earth 33 years ago, is now at the edge of our solar system. It is […]
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