by quasarn01 | Jun 13, 2026 | Astronomy
Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio astronomy frontier. A hydroxyl megamaser is a natural space laser, and this one is located in a violently merging...
by quasarn01 | Jun 13, 2026 | Astronomy
Between the mid-1970s and early 1980s, two physicists, Michael Hart and Frank Tipler, published a controversial series of papers arguing that extraterrestrial intelligence didn’t exist. As they argued, the likelihood that extraterrestrial civilizations (ETCs)...
by quasarn01 | Jun 13, 2026 | Astronomy
Physicists led by the University of Iowa have documented in the finest detail to date how energy from the sun interacts with Earth’s magnetic field, which could yield greater insight into solar effects on Earth that drive space weather. Go to Source
by quasarn01 | Jun 13, 2026 | Astronomy
Sarah Pappert is a Ph.D. candidate in astrophysics at the TUM School of Natural Sciences and conducts research at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. She is supervised by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Genzel and Prof. Dr. Frank Eisenhauer, who holds a TUM...
by quasarn01 | Jun 13, 2026 | Latest in Physics
Pack enough string-like objects together, and they will begin to align with one another. But replace the strings with worms or bacteria living in your gut, and this self-organization becomes much more difficult. A team of University of Amsterdam (UvA) researchers has...
