Two Giant Black Holes Spiral Toward Collision
A supermassive black hole 9 billion light-years away appears to have a companion black hole orbiting around it. As the orbit shrinks, the pair gets closer to merging.
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Tag: space sciences
Chile Peppers Aboard the I.S.S. – Growing Food in Space
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station harvest the first produce grown in zero gravity. Then they made a meal of it.
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Chandra Catches Galaxy Collision Slingshot
Two colliding galaxies create a spectacular spray of superheated gas millions of lightyears long.
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February 29th – The Science Behind Leap Year
Every four years, we have to fudge the calendar a bit. Here’s why.
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Life: An Impossibility in an Impossible Universe
So – what’s actually up with Fermi’s Paradox? SF Writer John R. White discusses the question.
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China Wants to Launch Artificial Moon
The plan is to use it to light up the night skies over China to save money on infrastructure and power generation costs.
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Scientists expand Saturn’s mysteries with latest Cassini discovery
Saturn’s bizarre hexagonal cloud structure has now been observed at both poles.
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John Glenn, Astronaut and Public Servant, Dies at 95
“Zero G, and I feel fine.”
—John Glenn, upon achieving orbit
