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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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 […]