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Ancient Galaxy Remnants Hidden in Our Own
Season 3 Episode 411
New research suggests the Milky Way contains remnants of an ancient dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki. By studying metal-poor stars in the galactic plane, ast…
1 week, 3 days ago
Discovery of the Universe's Most Pristine Star
Season 3 Episode 410
Astronomers have identified SDSS J0715-7334 as the most elementally pure star ever observed. Discovered using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey …
1 week, 4 days ago
New Flexible Shielding Material Could Transform Spacecraft Design
Season 3 Episode 409
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have created a composite film thinner than a human hair that blocks both electromagnetic…
1 week, 5 days ago
Are Star Birth Laws Universal Across the Universe
Season 3 Episode 408
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers created a high-resolution map of over a thousand giant molecular clouds in NGC 13…
1 week, 6 days ago
A Faster Way to Mars: The 153-Day Orbit
Season 3 Episode 407
By studying the trajectory of 2001 CA21, researchers uncovered orbital corridors that could enable round-trip missions to Mars in as little as 153 da…
2 weeks ago
A Rare Double Quasar in the Early Universe
Season 3 Episode 406
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers confirmed a rare pair of quasars inside merging galaxies from the early universe.…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Entropy and the Hidden Order of Stars
Season 3 Episode 405
A new astrophysical study suggests that star formation follows a self-regulating logic rather than randomness. Using entropy, researchers found that …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
From Hazard to Habitat: Rethinking Lunar Dust
Season 3 Episode 404
Once considered a serious threat, lunar regolith is being reimagined as a core resource for space construction. Researchers are developing methods to…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
The Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Detected
Season 3 Episode 403
In February 2023, the deep-sea observatory KM3NeT detected a record-breaking neutrino with an energy of 220 million billion electron volts.
Known as K…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
How Stellar Winds Fuel Sagittarius A*
Season 3 Episode 402
Astronomers have traced mysterious gas clouds near the center of the Milky Way back to an unexpected origin: the binary star system IRS 16SW. These c…
2 weeks, 4 days ago