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Astronomy’s Decades-Long Quest To Understand Cosmic Topology (opens the original)
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If some aspects of cosmic topology turn out to be true, the idea that starships might voyage the cosmos over hundreds of thousands of light years without ever returning to the same neck of space-time could be problematic. That’s because some aspects of cosmic topology (the global shape and connectivity of our cosmos) could dictate a closed loop universe — at least on the largest scales. That means that in some instances if a starship heads in one direction for long-enough, hypothetically, it cou
Venus Moon Would Have Been Doomed From The Start, Says New Paper (opens the original)
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One of our solar system's biggest puzzles has long been why Venus has no moon. Often referred to as Earth's twin, Venus is almost the same mass and size as our own planet. But it does have an incredibly bizarre 243-day retrograde rotation. In a new paper just being published by The Astrophysical Journal, longtime Venus researcher Stephen Kane, a planetary astrophysicist at the University of California, Riverside and colleagues, show that a moon around Venus would have been doomed from the start.
Ancient Swedish Goths Had Surprisingly Accurate Calendars (opens the original)
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On a mostly flat plain an hour north of Stockholm lies a collection of large burial mounds dating from an ancient culture at least 2500 years old. These people were not Vikings; they were northern Germanic Goths, pagan polytheists worshiping the precursors of Odin, Freyr and Thor. In truth, this ancient subgroup of Goths could probably have cared less about astronomy as we know it today. Yet inexplicably they were driven to make precise measurements of the Sun and Moon. They were obsessed with p
Distant Quasars Provide Crucial Link In Understanding Earliest Supermassive Black Holes (opens the original)
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Among the rarest objects in the universe, high redshift quasars --- of the sort that formed before the universe was even a billion years-old --- offer clues to the formation of supermassive black holes thought to lie at the heart of every large galaxy. Every large galaxy, like the Milky Way, has a supermassive black hole of a million even up to a few billion times the mass of the Sun, Daniel Mortlock, an astrophysicist at Imperial College London, told me in his office. These massive central blac
NASA’s Webb Telescope Rules Out Two New Dyson Sphere Candidates (opens the original)
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The latest Swedish-led search for technosignatures in the form of Dyson Spheres has again come up empty-handed. The two latest stellar candidates in the hunt for such hypothetical extraterrestrial technology have been eliminated as Dyson Spheres. Project Hephaistos, an Uppsala University-led initiative, used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to observe two new Dyson Sphere candidates. The Webb telescope took imaging and spectroscopy of two M-dwarf stars, as noted in two papers recently submitted
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