IRAS 15445-5449 Shows A Magnetic 'Bloom'

IRAS 15445-5449 Shows A Magnetic 'Bloom'

 An old star, IRAS 15445-5449, is "blooming" in the southern sky — it has begun to push out a jet of charged particles that glow with radio waves. And astronomers are on the hunt to determine…
Draft

Draft

This is part 3 of my series on Mars, planet of surprises, great to explore, not so great to colonize. So this might be a good time to take a breather and review what we've found out so far. Mars…
M60-UCD1: Densest Galaxy Ever Discovered

M60-UCD1: Densest Galaxy Ever Discovered

If you began to travel to the star nearest to us after ol' Sol, named Alpha Centauri, it takes about four light years.   Now imagine there were instead 10,000 other stars crammed into that 25…