For years, scientists have known that Gliese 710 will come excruciatingly close to our Solar System in about a million years. An updated analysis suggests this star will come considerably closer than we thought, during which time itās expected to spawn dangerous cometary swarms.
Some may call it excessive, unreasonable, exhibitionist. What kind of masochist wants to stare at a billion pinpricks of light all at once, anyway? Why, the scientifically inclined one, of course. The astronomer whoās hellbent on picking apart the universe and reducing your life to a clump of dust needs absurdlyā¦
This image of twinkling stars is the first picture to be beamed back to Earth by the Gaia telescopeāwhose mission is to scan the entire sky.
The European Space Agency released this nice time-lapse video today of the Soyuz flight VS06.
When the Gaia space telescope launches next week, it's going to attempt the biggest astronomy project of all time: it will try and scan the entire sky, capturing images of at least a billion stars in our galaxy.
Our solar system is positioned near the edge of the Milky Way. It's a nice part of town, sure, but it doesn't allow for a very clear view of the rest of the galaxy. That's prevented us from studying many of the Milky Way's fundamental aspects, like whether it has two arms or four, how big it is, how fast it's moving,ā¦
Ilias Oter is a student at the Academy for Arcane Studies and Material Arts of Cania, but he's no Harry Potter. He's a fighter training with some of the best adventurers and wizards of Cania, and he's desperately in love with Lilith, a preternaturally talented sorceress who already has a sword-wielding boyfriend. Andā¦
Perhaps requiring your own nuclear reactor to run, the Keian Gaia 1200W is a power supply that not only looks better than most PC, but can also feed everything. And with everything, I mean everything, from dual Quad-core processors (both Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD Socket AM2 processors are supported), to three Quad SLIā¦
