who added no one will be around to witness this long farewell happening in the far far future. Most believe all will be dark as theuniversecomes to an end. "It's known as 'heat death,' where the universe will be mostly black holes and burned-outstars," said Caplan, who imagined...
“We hope that it happens any day now,”Rebekah Hounsell, a nova researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told theIndianapolis Starin early September. But astronomers are careful to say that the blast can’t be exactly predicted. “The timing of whe...
What will happen? No supernova Additional resources If you worry about when the sun will die, never fear: that moment is billions of years away. The sun gives energy to life on Earth, and without this star, we wouldn't be here. But even stars have limited lifetimes, and someday ...
What supernova will happen in 2022? In 2022—only a few years from now—an odd type of exploding star calleda red novawill appear in our skies in 2022. This will be the first naked eye nova in decades. And the mechanism behind it is fascinating as well. This story really begins 10 ...
The last, smallest “trick candle” supernovae will happen about 10 to the 32,000th years in the future, somewhere in the nebulous stretch between a googol and a googolplex. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported....
Then there’s just the fact that we can see the expansion of the universe, that we can map that out over time, is amazing. I don’t even know if I really talked about this in the book, but when we look at very distant supernovae, solar explosions, they appear to be happening mor...
Designing ships or electrical substations is no easier than creating web forms and serving CRUD requests. There is competition for IT personnel, there are not enough of them. And how did it happen that the right number of developers have not been trained for 70 years? There are enough enginee...
The Sun, being the only star in our solar system, has a strong influence on all the planets, including the Earth. Its energy (sunlight) is essential for the survival of every single organism on Earth. But have you ever thought, what will happen to the Sun in the future? And what effe...
I'm perplexed by this one... PROBLEM: When I'm watching a video on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video PC will restart itself. No crashing messages, no bluescreen, no freezing before restart. What puzzles me the most is the inconsistency of this behaviour. The
This much we thought we knew: when a susceptible element undergoes fission, it will split into roughly equal parts, and if it doesn't, it is down to "magic" numbers. These numbers spring from an elaborate, but slightly shaky, construction for understanding atomic nuclei. It starts off by ...