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DNS in this case stands for “double neutron star” and a pulsar in the widest known orbit around another neutron star was discovered by two high school students. In the summer of 2012, during ...

http://www.reallyrocketscience.com/node/4287

Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he live, or be he dead I’ll grind his bones to make my bread. That’s your new mantra at home — after you buy one of Florian Pucher’s ...

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Check out this abstract… While most of the singularities of General Relativity are expected to be safely hidden behind event horizons by the cosmic censorship conjecture, we happen to live in t...

http://www.reallyrocketscience.com/node/3932

Today marks ten years since the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn. The image above is one of my personal favorites (similar images also available via BigBangPrints.com). The team of scientists...

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What if Saturn was only a million kilometers away? The gravity would kill us all. If you’re curious, click on the video by Yeti Dynamics. Saturn’s rings were created using Voyager data and Ca...

http://www.reallyrocketscience.com/node/3741

Get ready, watchers of the skies! Periodic Comet 209P/LINEAR is predicted to put on a show for us. Preliminary results by Esko Lyytinen and Peter Jenniskens, later confirmed by other researchers,...

http://www.reallyrocketscience.com/node/3737

Very cool, yet incomprehensible. A 360º view of the Milky Way galaxy, composed of more than 2 million images. Not very pretty, is it? Well, you can win them all — but the sheer magnitude of th...

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Fantastic collection of the Hubble Space Telescope’s “Top 100 Images” on the ESA site. All beautiful, with some more interesting that others. For example, the “engraved hourglass nebula�...

http://www.reallyrocketscience.com/node/2671