by Ethan Kwan | Sep 3, 2021 | Blog
And it’s a cool slingshot When the giants of space — galaxy clusters — collide, extraordinary things can happen. A new study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory examines the consequences of a collision between two galaxy clusters. Galaxy clusters are the...
by Ethan Kwan | Sep 3, 2021 | Blog
The closest brown dwarves to Earth are in the constellation Vela, about 6.5 light-years away, looking like a faint dot in the night sky. Actually, the dot is two brown dwarfs, the binary system called Luhman 16AB. These brown dwarves are about the same size as...
by Ethan Kwan | Sep 3, 2021 | Blog
Brown dwarves aren’t stars, but they aren’t planets, and a new study suggests there might be more of them than previously thought. A new study explains how a particular cosmic object called WISEA J153429.75-104303.3 — Nicknamed “The Accident” — came to be. The...
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