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Calcium in our Bones + Teeth was Created by Exploding Stars
Reinforcing the often-shared sentiment that we are all made of stars (popularized by astronomer Carl Sagan), a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal posits that half of the calcium found in …
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How to Assemble a Night Sky on Your Ceiling
There are “170 billion galaxies, spanning 45.7 billion light years,” and “roughly a septillion stars in the observable universe.” While few venture out there, many more of us can enjoy the splendor …
Via newscientist.com
High-Definition Video of the Sun’s Strange Surface
Captured using Hawaii’s Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (the world’s largest), this high-definition video of the sun’s surface is the closest observation earthlings have ever seen. Comprised of cell-like eruptions marked by …
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Researchers Discover Impossible Giant Planet
Contradicting theories on how planets form, a massive planet (GJ 3512b) found 31 light-years from Earth orbits a tiny red dwarf star (GJ 3512) and according to astronomers “shouldn’t exist.” While the …
Luminox’s Atacama Adventurer Field 1760 Watch Series
Timepieces inspired by and fit for the conditions of the remote Chilean desert
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Astronomers Detect an Unprecedented Glow from the Center of Our Galaxy
At the center of our galaxy is the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Though it has a history of flickering, it has never glowed like it did in April and May, new …
Cosmos: The Art and Science of the Universe
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Assembled by Roberta JM Olson and Jay M Pasachoff (curator of drawings at the New-York Historical Society, and the Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy as well as the director of the Hopkins …
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Amateur Astronomer Photographs Exploding Star
An Argentinian amateur astronomer was simply testing out his new 16-inch telescope by taking a bunch of short-exposure photographs when he managed to snap an image believed to be one in 10 …