Aerodynamic Research of a special kind: Physicists have clarified why beer coasters cannot be thrown like frisbees, but instead fall quickly to the ground.
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Artist's impression of the "light" exoplanet around the star L 98-59 (Image: ESO / M. Kornmesser)
A minimal record and other exciting findings: Astronomers have...
Artist's impression of the accretion disk of a supermassive black hole. (Credit: Mark A. Garlick / Simons Foundation)
How heavy are the supermassive black...
Artist's impression of the HD265435 system: The smaller white dwarf distorts the hot lower dwarf into a teardrop shape. (Image: University of Warwick...
Examples of five galaxies recorded as part of the PHANGS project. (Image: ESO / PHANGS)
Wonderful - and informative: Astronomers present new images of...
The 2018zd supernova (white spot right) (Image: NASA / STSCI / J. Depasquale; Las Cumbres Observatory)
Two types of star explosions have been known for...
Collision of a neutron star with a black hole. (Image: Carl Knox, OzGrav / Swinburne University)
After several as yet unclear candidates, astronomers have...
Far from the sun, the mysterious ice moon Enceladus orbits Saturn. (Image: dottedhippo / iStock)
The famous “tiger stripes” by Enceladus are rumbling: Researchers...
The quantum world is still a headache for physicists. (Image: ipopba / iSock)
Because of reality - quantum theory fundamentally questions the existence of...
This illustration shows the occultation of the star VVV-WIT-08 (Image: Amanda Smith / University of Cambridge)
Stars that change their brightness cyclically are not unusual...