Tag: astronomy

Intriguingly, this kind of decoherence will occur anywhere there is a horizon that only allows information to travel in one ...

In the early 2000s, Phil Plait wrote his first book, Bad Astronomy, which debunked conspiracy theories and fallacies, like the idea ...

Nearly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the primordial plasma of the infant universe cooled enough for the first atoms ...

The cosmos seems to have a preference for things that are round. Planets and stars tend to be spheres because ...

Every year, around 1,000 Type Ia supernovas erupt in the sky. These stellar explosions brighten and then fade away in ...

Streaming out of the sun at a million miles an hour, the solar wind—a blistering plasma of electrons, protons, and ...

The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

Years ago, Christopher Kyba was skeptical about astronomy data collected by citizen scientists—after all, it relies on people making naked-eye ...

Cosmologists have spent decades striving to understand why our universe is so stunningly vanilla. Not only is it smooth and ...

Next, they’ll use the spectrograph to try to find key molecules like oxygen or methane. How much they find of ...