What’s better than two gigantic galaxies swirling into one another until they collide? How about three galaxies swirling into one…
Welcome, come in to the 513th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers…
Does a distant black hole provide a new definition of pain and suffering? The black hole, named XJ1500+0154, appears to…
In 2011, a coronal mass ejection reached Jupiter and produced x-ray auroras hundreds of times brighter than Earth's auroras.
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Author Lee Billings, discussing his book "Five Billion Years of Solitude"(@LeeBillings /
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Astrophysicist Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) Guests: Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Charles Black (@charlesblack / sen.com/charles-black) Brian…
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Andy Weir , author of "The Martian" Andy was first hired as a programmer…
A research team led by Caltech astronomers of Pasadena California have discovered an ultraluminous X-ray (ULX) source that is pulsating. Their…
Hot young stars are wildly active, emitting huge eruptions of charged particles form their surfaces. But as they age they…
Could a strange X-ray signal coming from the Perseus galaxy cluster be a hint of the elusive dark matter in…