🌠 Catching Dark Drifters: Spotting Brown Dwarfs by Watching Galaxies Flicker
A clever twist on gravitational microlensing turns fuzzy galaxy light into a detector for hidden objects
🌬️ How Starburst Galaxies Build Giant Halos Of Hot Gas
Simulations explain the faint, far‑reaching X‑ray glow around the star‑forming galaxy M82
🌌 The First Ripples In The Big Bang’s Afterglow: What COBE Revealed
How a 1990s satellite found tiny temperature bumps that became the seeds of galaxies—and boosted ideas like inflation and dark matter
🌊 Ripples From The Big Bang: What The Oldest Light Says About Inflation
A fresh look at the cosmic microwave background hints at a powerful early-universe event — and pegs its energy near grand-unification scales
☀️ Solving The Solar Neutrino Mystery: Why The Sun Forced Physics To Evolve
A clever combination of experiments showed the Sun wasn’t broken — our picture of neutrinos was