Blog posts tagged "astronomy"
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Apr. 16, 2019 - 6:02 pm
Scientists have known about the theoretical existence of black holes for about 100 years, but it wasn’t until last week that anyone had ever seen one of these wondrous cosmic objects. Thanks to the team behind the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) we now have the first-ever image of a black hole (click...
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Jul. 02, 2018 - 8:14 am
The summer is my favorite time to stargaze. The winter may offer crisp, clear nights and stunning constellations like Orion and the Pleiades, but in the summer the Milky Way arcs overhead, meteor showers stripe the sky and the balmy temperatures mean all you need is a light jacket to step outside...
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Sep. 06, 2016 - 12:51 pm
Carlo Rovelli’s Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is the literary equivalent of a singularity – compact, majestic and mind-blowing.
In 81 pages, this slim volume introduces readers to general relativity, quantum mechanics, particle physics, the architecture of the universe and loop quantum gravity (a...
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Jan. 26, 2016 - 4:43 pm
A stargazer is also a time traveler, and telescopes allow us to venture to the most distant and ancient reaches of the universe. Even hurtling through space at 186,000 miles per second, it takes light from the next closest star over four years to reach Earth. And compared with the grand scale of...
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