We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.

Defensive pessimism may be helpful in small doses, but it may easily contribute to the maintenance of highly skewed and ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

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(via Dr. Becky) Wherever we look in the Universe we see spiral galaxies. 70% of all galaxies today have this spiral structure that show up in their stars and their gas that’s used to make more stars.

They rushed to flee the fires in Southern California, grabbing their belongings and their pets. They took the precious and ...

The objects of a transition curve on a railway ... Special attention is given to the clothoid (or Glover's spiral) and the mathematical work required to elucidate this curve is carefully and ...

A pink glow beckons. Visitors remove their shoes and enter a spiral maze of salt and mirrors. In another room, some visitors ...

Some were gaseous, star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula, or M42 – the 42nd object in Messier’s catalog – while others were star clusters such as the Pleiades, or M45. A third category – ...

A metal detectorist has unearthed an ancient bronze spoon that Iron Age people may have used to forecast the future ...

Buddhist jhāna meditation and the Christian practice of speaking in tongues—have more in common than previously thought, a ...