Astonishing Discoveries Archives | BrownSpaceman ../index.html Astronomy for Everyone Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:23:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 Astronomers Discover the Biggest Explosion Seen in the Universe in Ophiuchus Galaxy Cluster ../../../astronomers-discover-the-biggest-explosion-seen-in-the-universe-in-ophiuchus-galaxy-cluster/index.html ../../../astronomers-discover-the-biggest-explosion-seen-in-the-universe-in-ophiuchus-galaxy-cluster/index.html#respond Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:21:45 +0000 ../../../index.html?p=3156 Scientists discover the biggest explosion ever seen in the universe! The blast came from a supermassive black hole located in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster. Not only that but the explosion was five times more explosive than the previous record holder! It was so powerful that it punched a cavity in the cluster plasma1. The lead […]

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]]> ../../../astronomers-discover-the-biggest-explosion-seen-in-the-universe-in-ophiuchus-galaxy-cluster/feed/index.html 0 Two Key Ingredients for Habitable Planets Found for First Time Beyond Our Solar System ../../../two-key-ingredients-for-habitable-planets-found-for-first-time-beyond-our-solar-system/index.html ../../../two-key-ingredients-for-habitable-planets-found-for-first-time-beyond-our-solar-system/index.html#respond Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:25:03 +0000 http://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=605 Two Key Ingredients for Habitable Planets Found for First Time Beyond Our Solar System     Located 150 light years away astronomers have discovered two main ingredients for habitable planets circling around a star. The white dwarf star known as GD 61 is at its end of its life but when astronomers were observing it […]

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]]> ../../../two-key-ingredients-for-habitable-planets-found-for-first-time-beyond-our-solar-system/feed/index.html 0 The Largest Known Population of Globular Star Clusters ../../../largest-known-population-globular-star-clusters/index.html ../../../largest-known-population-globular-star-clusters/index.html#respond Sat, 14 Sep 2013 01:42:47 +0000 http://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=537 The Largest Known Population of Globular Star Clusters     Hubble has discovered the largest known population of globular star clusters in the universe thus far. It may not seem like it at first but the photo shows 160,000 star clusters! To give you some perspective our Milky Way galaxy has about 150 star clusters. […]

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]]> ../../../largest-known-population-globular-star-clusters/feed/index.html 0 Record Number of Black Holes Found in Andromeda (M31) ../../../record-number-of-black-holes-found-in-andromeda-m31/index.html ../../../record-number-of-black-holes-found-in-andromeda-m31/index.html#respond Wed, 11 Sep 2013 02:39:32 +0000 http://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=521 Andromeda Holds the Record of Most Black Holes Found in a Galaxy Other than Our Own Milky Way     Andromeda or M31 is one of the most famous galaxies in astronomy. It’s located 2.5 million light years away and it’s on a collision course with our galaxy the Milky Way. NASA’s Chandra observatory has […]

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]]> ../../../record-number-of-black-holes-found-in-andromeda-m31/feed/index.html 0 Strange Brown Dwarf as Hot as Your Oven ../../../strange-brown-dwarf-hot-oven/index.html ../../../strange-brown-dwarf-hot-oven/index.html#comments Fri, 06 Sep 2013 18:17:18 +0000 http://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=514 Strange Brown Dwarf as Hot as Your Oven!     Astronomers gain interesting insight on these failed stars or brown dwarf stars. Brown dwarf stars are essentially star like bodies that have a mass larger than a planet but too small to trigger nuclear fusion and ignite into a full fledged star. These stars are […]

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]]> ../../../strange-brown-dwarf-hot-oven/feed/index.html 1 HD 189733b: A Jupiter Sized Alien Planet Where it Rains Molten Glass! ../../../exoplanet-hd-189733b/index.html ../../../exoplanet-hd-189733b/index.html#respond Sat, 31 Aug 2013 19:40:31 +0000 http://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=452 There is so much of the universe that is unknown by humankind, specifically at least 96% (unless we know what dark matter and dark energy is by now!). However, through the efforts of Kepler we are able to understand a little more about alien planets. This particular alien planet called HD 189733b rains molten glass. Yes that […]

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]]> ../../../exoplanet-hd-189733b/feed/index.html 0 Biggest Supermassive Black Hole and Most Unusual Discovered ../../../biggest-supermassive-blackhole-and-most-unusual-discovered/index.html ../../../biggest-supermassive-blackhole-and-most-unusual-discovered/index.html#respond Sun, 02 Dec 2012 02:13:20 +0000 http://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=144 Credit: NASA/ESA/Andrew C. Fabian The biggest supermassive black hole was recently discovered by astronomers thus far. Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory astronomers have discovered this beast, located in the constellation Perseus,  to have a mass of 17 billion solar masses! A solar mass is the mass of our own Sun. So […]

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