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Researchers Observe Planet Swallowed by Star, Offer Terrifying Sneak Preview...
We all have plenty of things to worry about and be frightened by in the course of a given day. Paying the bills, getting to work on time, making sure we don’t step in front of a bus while texting....
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Neighboring Star is the Oldest Known and the Silver Fox of the Universe
Some of the oldest celestial bodies in our known universe are stars. And we don’t mean that name-forgetting and license-revoking kind of old, we’re talking about way before the first single-cell...
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Dark Clouds and Bright Lights: New ESO Images of Star Nursery Lupus 3
Full disclosure — there is very little we like waking up to better than pretty pictures of space. There’s just something really soothing about images that are simultaneously extremely gorgeous and...
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Dung Beetles Know Where to Roll Their Dung Balls by Watching the Stars, Milky...
Oscar Wilde famously wrote “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,” and it turns out he might have really hit the nail on the head. After all, you don’t get much more in...
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New Type of Itty-Bitty Stellar Explosion Discovered
We love explosions, don’t we? Especially when they’re a) on TV or b) very far away from us. In this case, crazy far away, because I’m talking about supernovas — those spectacular events wherein a star...
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A Disturbance in the Force: Flare Star Becomes 15 Times Brighter In Less Than...
Space flares are so friggin’ cool. Well, not literally, because they are giant eruptions of heat and light, but you get my meaning. Case in point? Astrophysicists at the University of Santiago do...
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Astronomers Have Found One Of The Largest Stars In The Milky Way, And It’s...
If Hercules hadn’t been made into a constellation, he would probably have been reborn in space as a recently discovered star: the largest one ever spotted in the Milky Way. A group of astronomers...
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Beautiful Astronomically Accurate Shawl For Chilly Stargazing Nights - Do Try...
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Sparkly Eyeshadow Inspired By Our Solar System - It Came From Outer Space
You’ve heard the expression “stars in your eyes,” right? Well how about “planets on your eyes?” No? You’re right, that’s probably weird. But these Milky Way-inspired baked shadows from BH Cosmetics...
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Four Super Ancient Galaxy Clusters Have Been Found Hanging Out Billions of...
By combining the data from the Planck and Herschel satellites, four super old galaxies clusters were recently discovered, and by super old, we mean 10 billion light-years away. They’re galaxy...
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Miserable Alien Life is Possible Around Bigger, Brighter and Hotter Stars -...
Move over sun, there may be a bigger star to steal the spotlight. Recent studies suggest that hotter and brighter stars are capable of providing the right conditions to form life. Usually, the same...
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Open Source Hubble Telescope Scarves Put Nebulas & Star Formations On Your...
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A Moon With Two Suns May Be More Likely To Support Life - It's also more...
Apparently two are better than one. New research shows that binary stars keep each other in check and increase a moon’s chances of hosting life. According to Paul Mason, an astrophysicist at the...
View ArticleHank Green Explains Why Stars Twinkle In This Illuminating Episode of SciShow...
Contrary to what Inspector Javert might believe, stars don’t fill the darkness with order and light because they are the sentinels of the sky. They actually do it because of this thing called science....
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Nasa Releases New Hubble Space Telescope Images of A Star Being Violently...
Man, human babies have it easy. All they have to endure is the trauma of being forced out of a uterus. You know what stars have to deal with when they’re being born? Massive amounts of nebula cloud...
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Why Do We Draw Stars With Spikes When Actual Stars Are Round? - Let's talk...
Draw a star. It probably looks something like the ones in the picture above. Stars have points when we draw them, but why? Real stars, the ones in space, are round. So how did we get to the pointed...
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Beautiful Space Dresses Are the Star of Valentino’s Pre-Fall 2015 Collection
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Wake Up Before Dawn This Month to Check Out the Naked-Eye Planets With Your...
Do you love stargazing? Do you also love sleep? Well, one of those loves is gonna have to go – at least for one morning this month. For the next thirty days, you’ll have a chance to see all five...
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Discovery of Two Crashing Neutron Stars Reminds Us the Universe is Still...
Ever wonder where the gold and silver of your jewelry come from? I mean, besides from “in the Earth?” Crashing neutron stars, that’s where! Thanks to humanity’s recent ability to detect gravitational...
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A Simple Guide to the Big Three in Astrology
You probably have friends who throw around astrology terms like, “I’m such a Virgo” or “I could never date a Scorpio.” What does that really mean, though? Astrology, or the use of planets and other...
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