In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...

"Astronomers will always assume a simple model unless there is overwhelming evidence that this simple model is flawed." ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of a hot super-Neptune exoplanet ...

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and ...

Using commercially available old telescopes and spectral filters, an amateur astronomer named Steve Hill decided to test a ...

THE abnormally high heat conductivity of helium II below the λ-point, as first observed by Keesom, suggested to me the possibility of an explanation in terms of convection currents. This ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...

The present data were obtained from observations on the flow of liquid helium II through long capillaries. Two capillaries were used; the first had a circular bore of radius 0 -05 cm. and length ...

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Now, helium to most people is a frivolous gas. It lifts children’s party balloons ... who independently spotted the rogue spectral line in 1868. The pair coincidentally filed their paperwork ...