The Ring Nebula is a bright planetary nebula located approximately 2,567 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. With an apparent magnitude of 8.8, it is one of the brightest planetary n… Read More

In the early​ 2000s, after Napster had blown up the old model for buying and selling music, an idea took hold. It was repeated often enough that it became a cliché: people could… Read More

Astronomers led by Durham University have discovered one of the largest black holes ever found, with a mass over 30 billion times that of the Sun, by utilizing gravitational lensing and… Read More

Astrônomos liderados pela Universidade de Durham usaram lentes gravitacionais e simulações de supercomputador na instalação DiRAC-HPC para descobrir um do… Read More

As the public eagerly awaits a US government report including declassified information about alleged UFO encounters, at least one expert is skeptical. Texas A&M University astronomer N… Read More

The Rosette Nebula is a vast emission nebula located about 5,200 light years away. The star forming region lies near a large molecular cloud in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. It i… Read More

Flagstaff is a city in Arizona, United States of America, with a population of about 72,402 as of 2019. The city is at an elevation of 2,106 m above the ground and surrounded by deserts, mou… Read More

This is a special annual edition of the Brain Pickings newsletter by Maria Popova. The regular Sunday edition will be with you predictably and reliably this weekend. NOTE:… Read More

Top 35 Space Podcasts Contents [show]  1 Space Podcasts 1.1 The Space Show 1.2 Spacepod 1.3 The Star Spot 1.4 Space Cadets Radio 1.5 SWF Podcast 1.6 TMRO:Spa… Read More

2018 Top-10 Book Review: Guest Post by Ajit Singh Every year, Konverser and passionate bibliophile Ajit Singh writes a review of his top-10 books of the year. Genres featured in this book li… Read More

An anonymous reader shares a report: China has built a staggeringly large instrument in the remote southern, mountainous region of the country called the Five hundred-meter Aperture Spherica… Read More

Captain America: Civil War, like the previous movie in the series, made major changes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe which also extend to Agents of SHIELD on television. Spoilers ahead fo… Read More