milestone x-ray burst! by Ethan Kwan

on august 21′ st, 2019, NASA’s NICER telescope on the ISS, observed the largest x-ray burst to date. the flare-up came from SAX j1808.4-3658, a binary system 11,000 light-years away, where a brown dwarf, a failed star to big to be a planet but not big...

wormholes explained (pt 1)

for most of human history, we thought space was a stage, and the planets and stars were just actors. then Einstien came walking along and said “WRONG!” and he made space more like a water bed. the old stage would be hardwood. this space can: A.bend B.torn...

how to build a dyson sphere, part 3

okay, so if you’re like most of my readers, you are wondering how we are going to get those mirrors into orbit around the sun. well, we will use… a Railgun! to launch stuff into space. it will be an electromagnetic track that launches our satellites at...