Scientists think they've reversed time using IBM's quantum computer, possibly breaking a law of physics. pst.cr/11tfD
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Informing, entertaining, and inspiring people who are interested in the science and hobby of astronomy.
- Earth reaches perihelion, the closest point to the Sun during its year-long orbit, at midnight EST tonight. The two then lie 91.4 million miles (147.1 million kilometers) apart. astronomy.com/observing/sky-…
- Astronomers have determined the disk of our galaxy is 200,000 light-years across — twice as large as was believed a decade ago. pst.cr/o3aZ
- Voyager 2 shut down an instrument heater, but is still going strong, more than forty years after launch. pst.cr/6Xujx
- Astronomers spot two baby stars locked in a gravitational waltz that's twisting their planet-forming disks into a pretzel-shaped knot. pst.cr/mNoJA
- Neptune's innermost moon, Naiad, avoids smashing into its neighboring moon, Thalassa, by bobbing up and down like a carousel horse. The newly discovered resonance isn’t like anything scientists have seen in the solar system so far. pst.cr/VAsQ6
- The asteroid belt is a ring of debris that exists between Mars and Jupiter. What caused it to form — and will it ever become a planet? pst.cr/b5oV7
- Initially a cosmic curiosity, the night sky was eventually decoded by ancient peoples, making astronomy one of (if not the) oldest science. pst.cr/HMQ8J
- A beautiful crescent Moon appears 2° to the right of a brilliant Venus just 45 minutes after sunset tonight. astronomy.com/observing/sky-…
- Smacking an asteroid with a bomb or a smaller asteroid should shatter it into manageable pieces, right? Wrong. pst.cr/Rg1rr
- Famed astronomer and discoverer of over 30 comets and 800 asteroids passes away at 92. pst.cr/5D5C5
- This exoplanet is "the best candidate for habitability that we know right now," astronomers say. pst.cr/kABzw
