This story really has it all. Really it does; astronomy, physics, chemistry, two dying stars spiralling into one another (resulting in a cataclysmic explosion) and a whole lot of gold, the earth’s mass in gold to be precise! It all started in a galaxy not too far away – about 130 million light years away […]
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Dating the Stars!!
Some of the oldest stars in our Milky Way galaxy have been recently discovered by astronomers. Scientists at Georgia State University determined locations and velocities of stars to identify how many old stars are present in the galaxy. Milky Way is 13.6 billion years old, and is estimated to contain 200–400 billion stars, and probably […]
Dyson spheres: the power of a star
Last year, science and science-fiction fans from across the internet simultaneously experienced a sensation of grand elation when it was announced that scientists were seriously considering the possibility that they had discovered what could be a Dyson Sphere encircling a star. The star in question, KIC 8462852, had been experiencing a period of unusual dimming […]
Immaculate Misconceptions: Twinkle twinkle little LIE
Our Immaculate Misconceptions feature sees writer Kathryn Egerton, destroying our childhood nursery rhymes. No, stars do not twinkle – we’re all living a lie. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. A well known nursery rhyme, but when you look closer is it actually correct? Well, here comes science to ruin the rhyming couplets of […]