Bad Astronomy So, about that black hole found in a nearby galaxy… yeah, maybe not so much Black hole findings called into question. By Phil Plait 1 week ago Get ready for Thursday night's (almost very nearly total) lunar eclipse! How to watch Thurday's lunar eclipse, the longest of the century. By Phil Plait 1 week ago It's galactic cannibalism all the way down A satellite galaxy of the Milky Way ate a satellite galaxy of its own. By Phil Plait 1 week ago The last moments of Earth's formation seriously scarred the Moon Giant impacts on the Moon may have come from the last chunks of material that formed the Earth. By Phil Plait 2 weeks ago A near-Earth asteroid may actually be a chunk of the Moon blasted into orbit! A quasi-satellite follows Earth around the Sun. By Phil Plait 2 weeks ago Black hole in Milky Way satellite galaxy found as it tosses around its companion It has a mass equivalent to 11.1 Suns. By Phil Plait 2 weeks ago Puzzling planets perpetrating perpendicular paths perplex people Nearby star HD 3167 has planets orbiting at right angles By Phil Plait 2 weeks ago *Thirty-five* new black hole and neutron star mergers found, bringing total known to 90 Gravitational wave astronomy is coming into its own By Phil Plait 2 weeks ago Half-eaten exoplanet entrails in zombie stars show how weird alien worlds are Planetary debris shows alien worlds are extremely diverse. By Phil Plait 3 weeks ago Hubble portrait of a galaxy shows it shines in stellar birth and death NGC 4666 is gorgeous, and shows us the circle of stellar life. By Phil Plait 3 weeks ago Previous page Load More
So, about that black hole found in a nearby galaxy… yeah, maybe not so much Black hole findings called into question. By Phil Plait 1 week ago
Get ready for Thursday night's (almost very nearly total) lunar eclipse! How to watch Thurday's lunar eclipse, the longest of the century. By Phil Plait 1 week ago
It's galactic cannibalism all the way down A satellite galaxy of the Milky Way ate a satellite galaxy of its own. By Phil Plait 1 week ago
The last moments of Earth's formation seriously scarred the Moon Giant impacts on the Moon may have come from the last chunks of material that formed the Earth. By Phil Plait 2 weeks ago
A near-Earth asteroid may actually be a chunk of the Moon blasted into orbit! A quasi-satellite follows Earth around the Sun. By Phil Plait 2 weeks ago
Black hole in Milky Way satellite galaxy found as it tosses around its companion It has a mass equivalent to 11.1 Suns. By Phil Plait 2 weeks ago
Puzzling planets perpetrating perpendicular paths perplex people Nearby star HD 3167 has planets orbiting at right angles By Phil Plait 2 weeks ago
*Thirty-five* new black hole and neutron star mergers found, bringing total known to 90 Gravitational wave astronomy is coming into its own By Phil Plait 2 weeks ago
Half-eaten exoplanet entrails in zombie stars show how weird alien worlds are Planetary debris shows alien worlds are extremely diverse. By Phil Plait 3 weeks ago
Hubble portrait of a galaxy shows it shines in stellar birth and death NGC 4666 is gorgeous, and shows us the circle of stellar life. By Phil Plait 3 weeks ago
