May 24, 2021May 24, 2021 by Cody

May 2021

We Are Moving Through The Universe Faster Than We Thought December 3, 2025
We've long known that we move through the Universe relative to the cosmic microwave background, but a new study of radio galaxies finds an even faster result, which could contradict the standard model of cosmology.
These Two Galaxies Are Tying The Knot And Producing Stars December 3, 2025
The European Space Agency has release its ESA/Webb Picture of the Month and it features a pair of dwarf galaxies engaged in a tentative dance, like nervous partners at a social. The pair are a staggering 24 million light-years away. But even at that great distance, the pair of galaxies is the closest-known interacting pair […]
How to Catch a Comet That Hasn't Been Discovered Yet December 3, 2025
There’s been a lot of speculation recently about interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS - much of which is probably caused by low quality data given that we have to observe it from either Earth, or in some case Mars. In either case it’s much further away that what would be the ideal. But that might not be […]
To Celebrate 25 Years In Service, The Gemini Observatory Imaged The Butterfly Nebula December 2, 2025
To celebrate 25 years since the completion of the International Gemini Observatory, students in Chile voted for the Gemini South telescope to image NGC 6302 — a billowing planetary nebula that resembles a cosmic butterfly. The International Gemini Observatory is partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by NSF NOIRLab.
The Knotty Problem of Matter Asymmetry Might Be Solved By Extending Physics December 2, 2025
Why is the Universe filled with matter? Why isn't it an equal amount of matter and antimatter? We still don't know the answer, but a new approach looks at the symmetries of extended models of particle physics and finds a possible path forward. It's a knotty problem that may just have a knotty solution.