Does our Oort Cloud overlap with Alpha Centauri’s?
About 2,000 to 5,000 astronomical units (AU; where 1 AU is the average distance between Earth and the Sun) from the Sun lies the beginning of the Oort Cloud. For context, the Voyager spacecrafts —...
Astronomers in India discover a new ghost galaxy
India’s astronomers have discovered a galaxy that lies in front of a larger, brighter galaxy that had previously been undiscovered. 136 million light-years from us, the galaxy has a ghostly...
Astronomers launch new asteroid-classification system based on animal sizes
A new system for classifying the sizes of small planetary objects using animals has been launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in a bid to clear up misconceptions introduced after an asteroid...
FLOOFY OBJECTS AND OTHER TALES OF ASTRONOMICAL IMPOSSIBILITY
Astronomers aren’t holding back this year, with brand-new submissions to this year’s highly prestigious (and fictitious) Acta Prima Aprilia. The skills astronomers learn in critical thinking,...
Hubble spots the farthest star ever seen
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has broken another record. The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the most distant star ever seen, according to a study...
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Gravitational Waves
Gravitational waves are not simple conceptually, as they require one to think of the fabric of the Universe in terms of spacetime. Spacetime is a four-dimensional quantity, described by Einstein’s...
Astronomers spot a vast, mysterious circle in space
Astronomers have spotted an enormous and mysterious object more than a million light-years across, called an odd radio circle (ORC). ORCs were first identified in 2019, and now researchers have...
Starlink satellite streaks: How big of a problem are they?
Professional and amateur astronomers alike are experiencing Starlink craft photobombing their shots. The problem isn’t likely to get better — but there is something you can do. By now you have heard...
