Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...
The Flaming Star Nebula: A dramatic NASA APOD image, showcasing the fierce interaction between intense stellar winds and cooler, denser material, which sculpts the nebula into a fiery display.
Astrophysicists have, for the first time, measured the temperature of elementary particles in the radioactive afterglow of a neutron star collision, which led to the formation of a black hole. This br ...