SYFY WIRE Bad Astronomy The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged Bad Astronomy Astronomers find dark matter from 12 billion years ago New method sees unprecedentedly far back in the history of the Universe. By Phil Plait | 1 min ago Some orphan gamma-ray bursts actually live in tiny faint galaxies Don’t you hate it when colliding neutron stars outshine their tiny dim host galaxies? By Phil Plait | 20 hours ago Radioactivity powers volcanoes of salty ice on Ceres The cryovolcanoes aren't nuclear, but their heat comes from radioactive decay. By Phil Plait | 1 day ago Multiple stars like being born in chaos Dense and turbulent stellar nurseries make more binary stars. By Phil Plait | 2 days ago Why doesn’t Jupiter have even more spectacular rings than Saturn? Jupiter is bigger and more massive, but Saturn puts it to shame. By Phil Plait | 3 days ago The building blocks for RNA-based life have been found… in the center of the Milky Way Did life here begin out there? Or maybe its complex ingredients? By Phil Plait | 6 days ago Head-on cosmic collision: The incredible Cartwheel galaxy seen by JWST One of the weirdest galaxies in the heavens glows beautifully in new images. By Phil Plait | 1 week ago In the early Universe, dark galaxies swarmed They were dark on the outside, but broiling star-forming chaos on the inside. By Phil Plait | 1 week ago Sunlight forces tiny asteroids to get rid of their dust bunnies Small asteroid surfaces are dustless, possibly because they're zapped by UV light. By Phil Plait | 1 week ago The spooky swirly spiral galaxies of JWST Dust comes alive when JWST views spiral galaxies. By Phil Plait | 1 week ago Load More
Astronomers find dark matter from 12 billion years ago New method sees unprecedentedly far back in the history of the Universe. By Phil Plait | 1 min ago
Some orphan gamma-ray bursts actually live in tiny faint galaxies Don’t you hate it when colliding neutron stars outshine their tiny dim host galaxies? By Phil Plait | 20 hours ago
Radioactivity powers volcanoes of salty ice on Ceres The cryovolcanoes aren't nuclear, but their heat comes from radioactive decay. By Phil Plait | 1 day ago
Multiple stars like being born in chaos Dense and turbulent stellar nurseries make more binary stars. By Phil Plait | 2 days ago
Why doesn’t Jupiter have even more spectacular rings than Saturn? Jupiter is bigger and more massive, but Saturn puts it to shame. By Phil Plait | 3 days ago
The building blocks for RNA-based life have been found… in the center of the Milky Way Did life here begin out there? Or maybe its complex ingredients? By Phil Plait | 6 days ago
Head-on cosmic collision: The incredible Cartwheel galaxy seen by JWST One of the weirdest galaxies in the heavens glows beautifully in new images. By Phil Plait | 1 week ago
In the early Universe, dark galaxies swarmed They were dark on the outside, but broiling star-forming chaos on the inside. By Phil Plait | 1 week ago
Sunlight forces tiny asteroids to get rid of their dust bunnies Small asteroid surfaces are dustless, possibly because they're zapped by UV light. By Phil Plait | 1 week ago
The spooky swirly spiral galaxies of JWST Dust comes alive when JWST views spiral galaxies. By Phil Plait | 1 week ago
