Harvard University Professor Abraham Loeb, pictured in an undated photo, claims in a new book that aliens visited earth in 2017 but scientists ignored it Aliens already visited earth in 2017 and scientists ignored it, a top astronomer from Harvard has claimed. Professor Avi Loeb, the longest-serving chair at the Ivy League college in Cambridge, … Read more
Discovery of pulsars British astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was the first person to discover a pulsar in 1967 when she spotted a radio pulsar. Since then other types of pulsars that emit x-rays and gamma rays have also been spotted. Pulsars are essentially rotating, highly magnatised neutron stars but when they were first discovered … Read more
Astronomers have captured a stunning photo of an incredibly rare and explosive pair of stars dubbed ‘one of the peacocks of the stellar world’. The star system, made of two so-called Wolf-Rayet stars revolving around each other while spewing out plumes of glowing carbon dust, is more than 8,000 light years away from Earth in … Read more