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Interstellar Travel with Sailing (Space) Ships
Interstellar travel is difficult with traditional fuel-powered rockets. Today’s paper explores how we could instead use sailing space ships, propelled by photons and particles from astrophysical sources. Spoiler alert: Sailing ships could almost reach the speed of light!
Insert Tidal Here: Stretching and Squashing the Universe
Tide goes in, dark matter halos come out, today’s authors can simulate that! With separate universe simulations!
Gravitational Wave Taxonomy
Researchers are undecided on how to classify the first publicly announced gravitational wave detection from LIGO-Virgo’s third observing run.
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The Grand Twirl
How well a galaxy dances may be a matter of life or death.
Studying the Population of Variable Objects in the Dark Energy Survey
Today’s undergraduate research post is seeking to automatically identify variable stars in the upcoming all sky survey, LSST. Read on to find out more!
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