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The Galaxy That Never Sleeps: How NGC 1385 Keeps Its Starburst Alive
By tracking the chemical fingerprint of the interstellar gas and young stars across the disk of a nearby spiral galaxy known as NGC 1385, astronomers have revealed that rather than experiencing a short, bursty episode of…
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Cosmic Hit-and-Run: Astronomers Catch a Possible Suspect of Star Cluster Collision
What was thought to be a single group of stars known as UBC 63 has turned out to be the crime scene of a gravitational hit-and-run on a cosmic scale. By analyzing the data from ESA’s…
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The Secret History of Space: Why the USSR Banned the Big Bang Theory?
When Russian physicist and mathematician Alexander Friedmann published his groundbreaking mathematical solutions to Einstein’s equations in the 1920s, he unveiled a revolutionary reality: our universe is dynamic, expanding, and evolving-contrary to the rigid dogma of the…
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Supergiant Star Recreates the Chemistry of Ancient Earth
Deep in the cosmos, some stars burn so hot and bright that they were long thought to be chemical wastelands. Their ultraviolet (UV) radiation is powerful enough to shred molecular bonds, leaving nothing but a sterile…
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Universe(al) Pictures: “The Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made” Starts Production Now
“Ready, set, action!” Bob Blum, the Director for Operations at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory might shout if he were a director of a Hollywood movie. Instead, he’s in charge of something far more ambitious: the…
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Tracing a Ghost to the “Shadow Blaster”: Cosmic Lens Uncovers a Hidden Neutrino Factory
Astronomers have pulled off an incredible cosmic detective feat by tracing a single high-energy “ghost particle”—a neutrino—back to its source 11 billion light-years away. So who’s responsible for blasting away these elusive particles? An exceptionally bright,…