Black holes form when a large star goes supernova and collapses into itself, producing an entity so dark and dense that no light can escape it. On the other hand, nova explosions transpire on the surface of white dwarfs that has consume an excess amount of resources from it’s red giant binary star, creating a … Read more
The universe is filled with a plethora of different-sized stars, the biggest of which we term “hypergiants.” These stars dwarf our Sun, which seems tiny when compared to the size and mass of these colossal entities. And these hypergiants possess some truly strange characteristics. Continue reading to answer all your questions about these “monsters” of … Read more
Quasars are active galactic nuclei that can be found in the accretion disc of supermassive black holes, propelling jet particles angled towards and generating light more luminous than everything in the known universe. On the other hand red giants are the penultimate phase in a stars life where they bloat up exponentially in preparation for … Read more
The hot, fiery atmosphere of the Sun creates an array of remarkable and intriguing features. Two of these are solar prominences and solar flares, but while the former is an unthreatening loop of plasma, the latter is a dangerous burst of energy that has the potential to affect life on Earth. Continue reading to find … Read more
Black holes form when matter is condensed so densely only a dark disc that allows no light to escape remains whereas magnetars form when a large star that dies is unable to become a black hole. Magnetars are essentially the strongest form of a neutron star producing magnetic fields stronger than most in the cosmos, … Read more
A nova is a relatively small yet bright nuclear fusion outburst on a white dwarfs surface when too much energy from its companion red giant star is consumed, whereas quasars are arguably the brightest entities in our universe that surround supermassive black holes, ejecting extremely bright jet particles angled slightly towards Earth. The two are … Read more
The main differences between Jupiter and Saturn would be that Jupiter is the bigger of the two where it’s 11.5 times bigger than Earth with Saturn only 9.5 times bigger, Saturn has visible rings around its orbit, which Jupiter does not, and that Saturn has 82 moons orbiting it whereas Jupiter only has 79. With … Read more
Red dwarfs are the smallest main sequence stars in our universe that are able to convert normal hydrogen to helium whereas brown dwarfs are stars that are too low in mass to convert normal hydrogen, instead converting deuterium (heavy hydrogen). Due to this fact brown dwarfs are often referred to as failed stars. For a … Read more
The main differences between the Sun and Jupiter is that the former goes through nuclear fusion, which allows it to create light, is roughly 10 times the width of Jupiter, is hotter and far heavier than Jupiter, weighing roughly 1000 times more than the gas giant. Both celestial objects are similar in how they are … Read more
A blazar is in essence a quasar that is pointing directly towards Earth, ejecting different radio waves and even gravitational waves towards us, whereas a black hole, particularly supermassive black holes are what power blazars to shine as bright as they do and eject said particles towards Earth. For a more thorough breakdown of what … Read more