x-ray burst! by Ethan Kwan.

by | Nov 8, 2019 | Blog

so, there is a pulsar, sax j1808.4-3658, and it is a binary with a brown dwarf! https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasas-nicer-catches-record-setting-x-ray-burst about 11,000 light-years away, the brown dwarf has a lot of hydrogen gas, and it forms an accretion...

could we create dark matter? by Ethan Kwan

by | Nov 5, 2019 | Blog

85% of the stuff in the universe is not matter. It’s stuff called “dark matter”. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/479098/how-do-they-know-the-numbers-of-the-energy-pie-chart-of-the-universe but, we know it’s out there. because you...

a black widow pulsar! typed out by Ethan

by | Nov 1, 2019 | Blog

so, a black widow anything will kill their partner. so, there is a pulsar, PSR J1311-3430, and it is killing his own mate! very sllloooowwwly. https://alizul2.blogspot.com/2017/08/8-rare-and-amazing-astronomic-objects.html the gamma rays and the wind are blasting the...

a Face… in Space! by Ethan Kwan

by | Oct 29, 2019 | Blog

so, there are two galaxies merging, and it looks like this!: https://www.inverse.com/article/60509-galaxy-merger-results-in-this-eerie-image (ooh creepy) this galaxy (or mabye two galaxies) is called AM 2026-424(they should come up with better names! like…...

when Exoplanets collide by Ethan Kwan

by | Oct 25, 2019 | Blog

so, there is a system called BD+20 307, and it is located about 300 light-years away. these stars are old, about a billion years old!but, there is still hot gas around it! A binary star system. which means that the hot gas was caused by two planets slamming into each...