Newly Found Star J0524-0336 Has Unusually High Lithium Levels, Posing Major Questions for Astronomers TL;DR Astronomers have identified a massive star, J0524-0336, about 30,000 light-years […]
Category: Astronomy
7bn-year-old stardust found inside a meteorite is the oldest solid material on Earth
“We are stardust, billion year old carbon. We are golden, caught in the devil’s bargain. And we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” […]
Hundreds of new exoplanets are found to exist, increasing the total to over 4,800 distant planets
With new computer programs and that new telescope, this number is going to look like 0 next to what we’ll have in 10 years. TL;DR […]
An asteroid 10 times bigger than the dinosaur-killer knocked Jupiter’s largest moon off its axis
A Giant Asteroid Smashed Into Ganymede, Creating the Solar System’s Largest Impact Crater and Tilting Its Axis TL;DR About 4 billion years ago, a massive […]