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Ask Ethan: Why Have not We Discovered Gravitational Waves In Our Personal Galaxy?

Ask Ethan: Why Have not We Discovered Gravitational Waves In Our...

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For the real black holes that exist or get created in our Universe, we can observe the radiation emitted by their surrounding matter, and the gravitational waves produced by the inspiral, merger, and ringdown. But we have yet to detect a merger within our own Milky Way. LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet) One of the most…
Freshly Found ‘Starry Dwarf Frog’ Uses a Galaxy on Its Back, Conceals in Dead Leaves

Freshly Found ‘Starry Dwarf Frog’ Uses a Galaxy on Its Back,...

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The newly described frog species Astrobatrachus kurichiyana — also known as the starry dwarf frog — measures about one inch long and wears a star-like coat of spots on its back. The frog only lives on one isolated hill in India, and may have no close relatives for tens of millions of years. Credit: K.P.…
Cosmic Links: How the Turbulence Throughout Your Flight Raises a Galaxy

Cosmic Links: How the Turbulence Throughout Your Flight Raises a Galaxy

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The droplets of air in a cloud reveal the turbulent motions within.CC0 Creative Commons Cosmic Connections is a series that explores how our experiences here on Earth aren't so different across the universe. So you're sitting in a plane, headphones on, dozing off. Not exactly comfortable but it'll do. All of sudden a bong! pierces through…
NASA Hubble telescope snaps bonkers view of Triangulum Galaxy

NASA Hubble telescope snaps bonkers view of Triangulum Galaxy

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The mosaic of the Triangulum Galaxy showcases the central region of the galaxy and its inner spiral arms.  NASA, ESA, and M. Durbin, J. Dalcanton, and B. F. Williams (University of Washington) The Hubble Space Telescope's mind-blowing new image of the Triangulum Galaxy is almost as gigantic as the galaxy itself.  Triangulum, also called Messier…
Researchers verify a ‘supermassive great void’ at the heart of our galaxy

Researchers verify a ‘supermassive great void’ at the heart of our...

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An illustration of what a supermassive black hole might look like. Robin Dienel/Carnegie Institution for Science Thanks to the Gravity instrument on the European Southern Observatory's aptly named "Very Large Telescope", scientists have confirmed what they long suspected: There's a supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way, the galaxy we inhabit. This…
Why Are 2 Stars in Our Galaxy All Of A Sudden Performing Really Odd?

Why Are 2 Stars in Our Galaxy All Of A Sudden...

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This illustration shows what a binary star system with a red giant feeding material into a white dwarf might look like. Credit: European Southern Observatory There's a binary star system out there in the Milky Way, and it's acting very weird. "AG Draconis," as astronomers call it, is made up of two stars: a relatively…
NASA’s Hubble telescope discovers a surprise next-door neighbor galaxy hiding

NASA’s Hubble telescope discovers a surprise next-door neighbor galaxy hiding

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Bedin 1 appears on the lower end of this Hubble image of globular cluster NGC 6752. NASA, ESA and L. Bedin (Astronomical Observatory of Padua, Italy) Imagine you have a neighbor living down the block in a house you never noticed before because it was tucked in behind some apartments. The human residents of the…
We Lastly Know When Our Galaxy Will Crash Into the Andromeda Galaxy

We Lastly Know When Our Galaxy Will Crash Into the Andromeda...

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A view of the Andromeda galaxy, also known as M31, with measurements of the motions of stars within the galaxy. This spiral galaxy is the nearest large neighbor of our Milky Way. Credit: ESA/Gaia (star motions); NASA/Galex (background image); R. van der Marel, M. Fardal, J. Sahlmann (STScI) Our Milky Way galaxy will survive in its current…
A 23 rd-century tour guide to the galaxy (images)

A 23 rd-century tour guide to the galaxy (images)

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Climbing Olympus Mons, Mars For adventurers in the 23rd century, only the biggest, boldest and most spectacular destinations will do. For eons, humans were bound to a single planet. But the perfection of an electromagnetic drive, or EM drive, in the 2100s will usher in a new era of interplanetary and interstellar travel. Humans will…
Samsung Galaxy Fold gets abuse checked, Tim Cook dismisses Apple cryptocurrency video

Samsung Galaxy Fold gets abuse checked, Tim Cook dismisses Apple cryptocurrency...

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In today's biggest stories, the Samsung Galaxy Fold falls short in torture testing, Tim Cook says Apple has no plans to launch a cryptocurrency and questions remain over the Microsoft Surface Duo.

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