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How NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Will Detect Invisible Neutron Stars
Season 3 Episode 421
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will use gravitational microlensing to detect isolated neutron stars normally invisible to telescopes.
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13 hours ago
Inside the Chaotic Evolution of Giant Black Holes
Season 3 Episode 420
Using gravitational wave data, researchers identified two populations of Black holes: smaller ones formed from collapsing stars and heavier ones crea…
1 day, 13 hours ago
Celestial Architects: Mapping the Universe's Winged Radio Galaxies
Season 3 Episode 419
Astronomers using LOFAR identified more than a thousand rare winged radio galaxies with X- and Z-shaped structures formed by jets from supermassive b…
2 days, 13 hours ago
Solar Storms Are Pulling Satellites Out of Orbit Faster Than Expected
Season 3 Episode 418
New research shows that when solar activity intensifies, emissions from the Sun heat and expand Earth’s atmosphere, increasing drag on objects in orb…
3 days, 13 hours ago
Inside the Turbulent Birthplaces of Stars
Season 3 Episode 417
Astronomers analyzed over 100,000 molecular clouds to uncover how stars form across galaxies. These stellar nurseries turn out to be short-lived, tur…
4 days, 13 hours ago
From Atmospheres to Surfaces: JWST’s New Exoplanet Breakthrough
Season 3
Using infrared observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have inferred the surface composition of LHS 3844 b.The planet appears t…
5 days, 13 hours ago
POET Mission: Finding Planets Around Ultracool Stars
Season 3 Episode 415
Canada’s upcoming POET micro-satellite mission, set for a 2029 launch, aims to detect Earth-sized and super-Earth planets orbiting ultracool dwarf st…
6 days, 13 hours ago
Skyfall: The Next Leap Toward Human Mars Landings
Season 3 Episode 414
NASA’s Skyfall mission, announced in 2026, introduces a bold new phase in Mars exploration with the Space Reactor-1, the first nuclear-powered spacec…
1 week ago
Smarter Space Travel: Cheaper Paths Beyond Earth
Season 3 Episode 413
Researchers have developed a new computational method to plan missions to near-Earth objects using “invisible highways” shaped by multi-body gravity.…
1 week, 1 day ago
The First Real Plan for Interstellar Exploration
Season 3 Episode 412
A new concept proposes sending a swarm of laser-powered micro-spacecraft, known as Coracles, toward Proxima b in the Proxima Centauri system.
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1 week, 2 days ago