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  • 1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Phil Plait

    On April 24, 1990, NASA and the European Space Agency launched an astronomical revolution. When the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into the sky on that day, it carried the Hubble Space Telescope in its payload bay, and the astronauts aboard deployed it into low-Earth orbit soon thereafter.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Phil Plait

    An astonishing fact only known for the past few decades is that every big galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black hole at its heart. This was suspected in the 1980s, and observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, which has peered deep into the cores of galaxies all across the sky, confirmed it. The “normal” kinds of black holes made when stars explode range from five to about 100 times the mass of the sun, more or less.

  • 2 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Phil Plait

    An astonishing fact only known for the past few decades is that every big galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black hole at its heart. This was suspected in the 1980s, and observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, which has peered deep into the cores of galaxies all across the sky, confirmed it. The “normal” kinds of black holes made when stars explode range from five to about 100 times the mass of the sun, more or less.

  • 3 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Phil Plait

    Ah, it’s a lovely night for enjoying the outdoors. You go outside in the warm summer air to listen to the crickets and breathe in the scents of verdant life and then turn your head to the heavens. You see hundreds of stars in the sky, and the brightest are conspicuously twinkling and gleaming. Some are even shifting their colors across the rainbow, delighting your eyes and mind—unless you’re out there to do some observing with a telescope.

  • 3 weeks ago | glamour.mx | Phil Plait |Alejandra Rodríguez

    ¿Estás listo para la Lluvia de meteoros Eta Acuáridas? Si todavía no sabes cuándo observar este fenómeno astronómico ni tienes idea de qué se trate, ¡has llegado a la nota correcta! Aquí te contamos TODO lo que debes saber y sobre todo, cómo aprovechar al máximo su energía para abrirte los caminos del éxito y la abundancia. Aunque cada año son visibles desde la Tierra unas 30 lluvias de estrellas, las Eta Acuáridas son quizás las más famosas de todas: El cometa Halley.

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