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Astronomers have crafted a detailed three-dimensional map of the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), a vast, low-density region surrounding our solar system. This bubble, filled with hot, X-ray-emitting gas, has been a subject of study since the 1970s, and recent data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey has provided new insights into its structure and history. The […]
A half-century ago humanity sent its first postcard to the stars, carried by a narrow beam of radio waves. It was November 16, 1974—a turbulent time on planet Earth. The cold war was reaching its crescendo, and the world economy was still sputtering from a Middle East oil embargo that was imposed the previous year. […]
“Interstellar” is now my favorite Christopher Nolan film My favorite Christopher Nolan film used to be The Dark Knight. Later, it became The Prestige and then Inception. But now, over the years, Intersteller just resonates with me more as I got older. Oppenheimer isn’t Nolan’s magnum opus. It’s Interstellar. Does anyone else feel this way […]
Christopher Nolan’s sweeping outer space saga “Interstellar” turns 10 next month, and, unless your name is Neil deGrasse Tyson or Brian Cox, you might still be slightly puzzled by all the quantum entanglement plot points and time displacement narrative devices presented in that mindbending 2014 film. Nobody can argue that the movie’s scope, visual effects […]
The supposed interstellar fireball detected over the Pacific Ocean in 2014 probably came from within our solar system, according to new statistical modeling of the meteor and others similar to it. The new study also concludes that debris from the fireball would not have survived passage through Earth’s atmosphere, meaning that the claimed recovery of […]
Space exploration has long been a staple of sci-fi films and TV, from the epic battles in Star Wars to gardening on the Red Planet in The Martian. However, many play fast and loose with the laws of physics, and scientific fact often couldn’t be further from the truth. Greg Brown is an astronomer at […]