06 May 2020
Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth
... begin their lives with more than about 8 times the mass of the Sun and end them in a supernova explosion that leaves behind a black hole." The discoveries of these triple systems with an inner pair and...
03 October 2021
The Chandra X-ray Observatory
... the spacecraft and the many astronomical sources of x-rays it is designed to observe - from stars and planetary systems to supernovae, galaxies and supermassive black holes. As an academic text, it comes complete with the usual panoply of graphs and...
10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
... dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from the most extreme and mysterious objects in the universe – supernova remnants, supermassive black holes, and dozens of other high-energy objects. “IXPE represents another extraordinary first...
08 January 2023
Stars in Your Hand: A Guide to 3D Printing the Cosmos
... an illustrated guide to exploring the universe in three dimensions, readers can print and visualise stars, nebulae, supernovae, galaxies and even black holes in three dimensions. Following a primer on the electromagnetic spectrum and an introduction...
