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The new Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus Star Wars Edition is the perfect smartphone for Star Wars diehards, but not everyone has a spare $1,300 lying around to buy one for themselves. If you’re ...
A brilliant flash from deep space once baffled scientists. But now, that mystery has been solved—and it reshapes what we know about the universe’s heaviest elements. Back in December 2004, a ...
To get you in the mood we have crafted a special set of Star Wars Wallpapers just for Android fans. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… well, not that far away, actually, just on your phone!
Their high-speed encounters shock the galaxy, creating arcs, as seen in this space wallpaper of speedster star Kappa Cassiopeiae, or HD 2905. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...
This space wallpaper is a schematic representing how light from a distant galaxy is distorted by the gravitational effects of a nearer foreground galaxy, which acts like a lens and makes the ...
In our galaxy, neutron star mergers could happen as rarely as once every hundred million years, or as often as once every 10 thousand years—rates that differ by a factor of 10,000.
(Some scientists suspect that all the gold and platinum on Earth formed in explosions like these, thanks to ancient neutron-star mergers close to our galaxy.) ...
A team of astronomers has discovered gold in an ancient star in the halo of the Milky Way, the first time the existence of the element has been discovered in a star other than the sun. It also ...
Metzger and Patel’s team estimate that these flares could be responsible for up to 10 percent of the heavy elements in our galaxy. Combined with neutron star mergers, that could account for ...