In several hundred million years, the black holes of the large and small galaxies will merge into one enormous beast. From: NuSTAR Probes Puzzling Galaxy Merger | NASA
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Looking into the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way – The Guardian
[I]f Einstein’s equations break down anywhere, they are most likely to do so at the edge of a black hole, where the fabric of space-time is being stretched more severely than any other place in the cosmos. As Laing says:…
Incredible Animations Show Real Exoplanets Orbiting Their Stars – Gizmodo
The animations all come from direct imaging methods, meaning that the telescopes measure the Jupiter-sized planets directly. So-called “Hot Jupiters” are so young that they still emanate infrared light, said Wang. “They formed after the dinosaurs.” The top video shows…
NASA Goddard: “Here are a few of our top images of 2016.” – Twitter
Here are a few of our top images of 2016. To see more pix be sure to follow @NASAGoddardPix & our Instagram account: https://t.co/RFfzjDqpQT pic.twitter.com/e6iTlHkZnQ — NASA Goddard (@NASAGoddard) January 7, 2017 From: NASA Goddard on Twitter: “Here are a…
Japan’s HD photos of the Moon are the coolest thing you’ll see today – Ars Technica
The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has previously released some of these photos into the public domain. But now the agency has released the entire dataset, including more than 450 images, the Planetary Society has reported. The newly available images include…
Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious – Aeon Ideas
Copernicus proposed that certain oddities observed in the movements of planets through the constellations were due to the fact that Earth itself was moving. Stars show no such oddities, so Copernicus had to theorise that, rather than being just beyond…
Gizmodo: Jupiter Is ‘Hardly Recognizable’ In Juno’s Latest Images
The dazzling new images of this turbulent ball of gas were captured on August 27th, as Juno executed the first of 36 orbital flybys that brought it just 2,500 miles above Jupiter’s cloud tops. It took a day and a…
An Update From the Astronomers Who Proposed the Alien Megastructures – The Atlantic
On the side of natural explanations, if a recent cataclysmic event in the system created a large cloud of dust responsible for the dimming events Kepler saw, then it’s possible a heat signature will show up at some point in…