by quasarn01 | Jun 16, 2026 | Astronomy
One of the hardest things to calculate for an asteroid is its mass—but it is such a critical feature. It determines how much of an impact it would have if it hits something, or how many resources are potentially available on it. But to accurately measure it, we...
by quasarn01 | Jun 16, 2026 | Police Lives Matter
A Louisville grand jury indicted Nathan A. Stotts on charges of second-degree manslaughter and reckless homicide in the fatal shooting of Martin Nitzken Jr. Go to Source
by quasarn01 | Jun 16, 2026 | Astronomy
Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological civilizations there are in the Milky Way. However, there’s a big...
by quasarn01 | Jun 16, 2026 | Astronomy
Italian astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to perform polarimetric observations of the star WRAY 15-1880 and its young circumstellar disk. Results of the new observations, presented June 10 on the arXiv preprint server, suggest that this disk may...
by quasarn01 | Jun 16, 2026 | Astronomy
Astronomers have detected one of the most powerful ultra-fast outflows ever seen from a distant supermassive black hole. Using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, a team studied a hyper-luminous quasar at cosmic noon and found two distinct wind components blasting away from the...
