The YouTube channel Kurzgesagt has teamed up with “Writer, infant,” Tim Urban for a video comparing the size of the largest stars ever detected. This short tour of the increasingly huge stars not only ...
Want to know how the Millennium Falcon compares in size to an Imperial Star Destroyer? Just watch a Star Wars movie. But if you want to know how that hunk of junk compares to the Battlestar Galactica, ...
A neutron star is the densest object astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times Earth's mass into a sphere about 12 miles across, or similar in size to Manhattan Island, as shown ...
NASA built a new mega-rocket for the next lunar astronaut era, and it launched for the first time on Wednesday. The Space Launch System (SLS) is 17 years and an estimated $50 billion in the making. It ...