Is the Universe Defective? Part 1: The Good Old Days
Reported by Universe Today
Every time you flip a light switch, or check the time, or feel the sodium ions wiggling in your brain — don’t think about that one too much—you’re assuming something fundamental. You’re assuming the universe is a finished product. A completed wor...
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:21 +0000
The Universe's Most Powerful Particle Accelerators Were Here All Along
Reported by Universe Today
Every planet with a magnetic field has a radiation belt, a region of space where charged particles get trapped and flung around at extraordinary speeds. Earth has two of them, and they've been puzzling scientists for decades. Now, a physicist at the Univer...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:57 +0000
Celebration of Space - March 13, 2026
Reported by Scott MacNeill's Columns
Geek alert! Saturday, March 14, 2026 is Pi (𝜋) Day! When formatting the date with a single digit month and day, separated by decimal points, you get: 3.14, which is the common recognition of Pi.
Pi, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to i...
- By: Scott MacNeill
- On: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:28:57 EDT
Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates
Reported by NASA
Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived active regions, we...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:07 +0000
Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet!
Reported by NASA
The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding! In addition to data received nightly from the Catalina Sky Survey’s Mt. Lemmon telescope in Arizona, the project’s science team is now processing images from the Bok 2.3-meter telescope at Ki...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:42 +0000
A Glorious Spiral of Star Formation
Reported by Universe Today
Stars peek through the dusty, winding arms of NGC 5134, a spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away, in this Feb. 20, 2026, image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument collects the mid-infrared light emitted...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:36 +0000