The Andromeda galaxy, pictured here, is just one of many in the known universe. Tony Rowell / Getty Images When you look up at the night sky, especially during the summer, you'll see a faint band of stars sprea
In fact, that will be the fate of our own sun in roughly 5 billion years. But how quickly does the night sky change, and in our galaxy, the Milky Way, how many stars die each year? According to James De Buizer, a research scientist at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (...
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First, many families do not have money for school. Also, some girls leave school. They get married as teenagers — some at age fourteen or fifteen. Kakenya Ntaiya is from a small village in Kenya. She is the oldest of eight children. As a child, her family was very poor. She had to...
She notes one important thing: An astronaut's day is planned well in advance by many people on the ground. "Well we have a scheduling program on board that has in it all of the details that we need to know in order to do the day's work. It tells us when we should go to sleep...
“Astronomy is a leading field in sonification, but there’s no reason that work couldn’t be generalized.” Sarah Kane Niklas Rönnberg, a sonification expert at Linköping University in Sweden, has spent years trying to figure out how to get sound-based data more widely accepted, both ...
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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the full beauty of nearby spiral galaxy M83 in a mosaic of many photos stitched together. The magentas and blues indicate star-forming regions. Also known as the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is located 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. Im...