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Tests and Answers from 2020
General
Stellar Formation
Stellar Evolution
Galaxies and Cosmology
- The Milky Way Has Giant Bubbles at Its Center (The Atlantic)
- Milky Way galaxy is warped and twisted, not flat (BBC)
- Solstice Sun and Milky Way (NASA)
- Gaia’s Map of 1.3 Billion Stars Makes for a Milky Way in a Bottle (The New York Times)
- Galactic Archaeologists Begin Sifting Through Newly Illuminated Stars (The Atlantic)
- This is the Most Detailed Map of the Universe to Date (Futurism, Nature Video)
- A virtual Universe (nature vidro)
- Our Motion Through Space Isn't A Vortex, But Something Far More Interesting (Forbes)
- Dozen black holes found at galactic centre (BBC)
- Trolling the Monster in the Heart of the Milky Way (The New York Times)
- Centre of Milky Way home to 10,000 black holes, study suggests (CBC)
- The Milky Way’s Center Is a Cornucopia of Black Holes (The Atlantic)
- About That Monstrous Black Hole We’re All Orbiting (The Atlantic)
- Cosmic Journeys - Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy (SpaceRip)
- The Milky Way Is Still Feeling the Effects of an Ancient Encounter (The Atlantic)
- Milky Way was part of cosmic collision 10 billion years ago (CBC)
- Our Milky Way galaxy is truly warped
- A Very Hungry Black Hole Is Found, Gorging on Stars (The New York Times)
- M31: The Andromeda Galaxy (NASA)
- Andromeda Is Coming for Our Milky Way Galaxy, Eventually (The New York Times)
- The 'Fireflies' of the Early Cosmos (The Atlantic)
- Newly found galaxy cluster could become most massive structure in universe (CBC)
- 'Ghost particle' reveals source of mysterious cosmic rays (CBC)
- Dark matter comes out of the cold (BBC)
- Pondering a world without WIMPs (Physics Today)
- Searching for the missing Milky Way: Canada may find it (CBC)
- Ghostly galaxy may be missing dark matter (BBC)
- Astronomers perplexed to find that distant galaxy has no dark matter (CBC)
- Galaxy devoid of dark matter puzzles astronomers (Physics World)
- Satellite galaxies of Centaurus A defy dark-matter model (Physics World)
- A galaxy with surprisingly little dark matter (Physics Today)
- Why Doesn't Dark Matter Form Black Holes? (Forbes)
- Supermassive black holes in spin
(Nature)
- The fact the sky is dark reveals a lot about the Universe (BBC)
- How to Measure All the Starlight in the Universe (The Atlantic)
- All the Light There Is to See? 4 x 10⁸⁴ Photons (The New York Times)
- Albert Einstein and the origins of modern cosmology (Physics Today)
- The Eclipse That Revealed the Universe (The New York Times)
- The Eclipse That Made Einstein Famous (The New York Times)
- What Is General Relativity? (The New York Times)
- Event Horizon Telescope ready to image black hole (BBC)
- Cosmos may be 'inherently unstable' (BBC)
- Stunning new view of 'oldest light' (BBC)
- Why we do not know what the Big Bang looked like (BBC)
- Astrophysicists find elusive molecule that 'kick-started' the universe (CBC)
- Big Bang Discovery - Penzias & Wilson (Naked Science)
- Cosmic Sound: Curvature and the cosmic background radiation (Einstein-online)
- Cosmic sound waves rule (Physics Today)
- Baryon acoustic oscillations: A cosmological ruler (Physics Today)
- Three Ways to Destroy the Universe (Kurz Gesagt - In a Nutshell)
- Dark matter 'ghosts' through galactic smash-ups (BBC)
- Why almost all of the Universe is utterly invisible (BBC)
- Einstein's gravitational waves 'seen' from black holes (BBC, Feb. 11, 2016)
- How the First Gravitational Waves Were Found (The New Yorker)
- The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves (Veritasium/You Tube)
- How Scientists Reacted to Gravitational Wave Detection (Veritasium/You Tube)
- Gravitational waves: Numbers don't do them justice (BBC)
- Black hole gets unusual 'kick' out of galaxy core thanks to gravitational waves (CBC)
- Gravitational Waves Felt From Black-Hole Merger 3 Billion Light-Years Away (The New York Times)
- The Coming Explosion of Gravitational-Wave Detections (The Atlantic)
- Einstein's waves win Nobel Prize in physics (BBC)
- The Winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Helped Us See the Universe Anew (The New Yorker)
- Gravitational-wave astronomy starts in earnest (The Economist)
- 'A New Rosetta Stone for Astronomy' (The Atlantic)
- LIGO Detects Fierce Collision of Neutron Stars for the First Time (The New York Times)
- Gravitational astronomy proves its maturity (The Economist)
- Einstein’s waves detected in star smash (BBC)
- Gravitational waves: Monster black hole merger detected (BBC)
- Einstein theory passes black hole test (BBC)
- The Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole Ever Discovered (The Atlantic)
- An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita (Quantamagazine)
- Cosmos Controversy: The Universe
Is Expanding, but How Fast? (The New York Times)
- Cosmologists Debate How Fast the Universe Is Expanding ((Quantamagazine)
- The Big Bang May Have Been One of Many (The Atlantic)
- New evidence for cyclic universe claimed by Roger Penrose and colleagues (Physics World)
- 'Serious gap' in cosmic expansion rate hints at new physics (BBC)
- Hubble Space Telescope confirms mismatch in cosmic expansion (Physics World)
- Have Dark Forces Been Messing With the Cosmos? (The New York Times)
- A New Way to Measure How Fast the Universe Is Expanding (The Atlantic)
- A New Way to Measure the Invisible Substances That Dominate the Universe (The Atlantic)
- What is the universe made of? (The Economist)
- The dark-energy deniers (Physics World)
- New instruments will study the universe’s most mysterious component (The Economist)
- When Stars Were Born: Earliest Starlight’s Effects Are Detected (The New York Times)
- Astronomers believe they've found signs of earliest stars in universe (CBC)
- A Tantalizing Signal From the Early Universe (The Atlantic)
- Ancient hydrogen reveals clues to dark matter’s identity (Physics World)
- Hint of an unexpectedly cool early universe suggests interacting dark matter (Physics Today)
- Why Does the Universe Need to Be So Empty? (The Atlantic)
- Our Universe’s Very Dusty Early, Early Beginnings (The New York Times)
- Hubble scores unique close-up view of distant galaxy (BBC)
-
How Many Galaxies Can You Count in This Picture? (Hubble provides a new look at some of the deepest observations of sparkling galaxy clusters ever made.) (The Atlantic)
- The Eerie Alignment of Ancient Giant Galaxies (The Atlantic)
- 4,000 of the earliest galaxies in our universe mapped in 3D (CBC)
- Astronomers use old-time math to measure distance, age of one of the oldest objects in the universe (CBC)
- Scientists detect oxygen legacy of first stars (BBC)
- Earliest galaxies found 'on our cosmic doorstep' (BBC)
- The stormy life of galaxy clusters (Physics Today)
Solar System
- To Scale: The Solar System (a film by Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet)
- A Baby Planet Is Born (The Atlantic)
- Cobbling together planets one piece at a time (CBC)
- Kissing Kuiper belt objects produce a planetesimal (CBC)
- Arrokoth reveals how the solar system's building blocks were built (CBC)
- The Improbable Rise of Planet Earth (SpaceRip)
- BepiColombo: 'Last chance to see' Mercury mission (BBC)
- Venus: Death of a Planet (SpaceRip)
- Augmented Reality: Explore InSight, NASA’s Latest Mission to Mars (The New York Times)
- Mars InSight: NASA’s Journey Into the Red Planet’s Deepest Mysteries (The New York Times)
- Mars Is Frigid, Rusty and Haunted. We Can’t Stop Looking at It. (The New York Times)
- New results suggest there is no methane on Mars (The Economist)
- Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living Things on Earth (The New York Times)
- Cosmic Journeys - Mars: Earth that Never Was (SpaceRip)
- The Asteroid that Flattened Mars (SpaceRip)
- Watch Two Eclipses on Mars, Recorded by NASA’s Curiosity Rover (The New York Times)
- The Best of Cassini—13 Years in Orbit Around Saturn (The Atlantic)
- First photos from Cassini's new orbit (BBC)
- Cassini provides a magnetic mystery (IOP Physics World)
- Cassini hints at young age for Saturn's rings (BBC)
- How Long Is a Day on Saturn? The answer was hiding in the planet’s rings. (The New York Times)
- NASA’s Jupiter Mission Reveals the ‘Brand-New and Unexpected’ (The New York Times)
- Jupiter Great Red Spot has deep roots (BBC)
- Jupiter’s wind bands have deep roots (Physics Today)
- Juno looks deep below Jupiter’s surface (Physics World)
- Gorgeous Images of the Planet Jupiter (The Atlantic)
- Jupiter Will Never Stop Surprising Scientists (The Atlantic)
- 79 Moons of Jupiter and Counting (The New York Times)
- Want to help name a moon? You could name 5 of Jupiter's (CBC)
- Wow! New volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io (EarthSky)
- New Dive Into Old Data Finds Plumes Erupt From Jupiter’s Moon Europa (The New York Times)
- The Solar System's Icy Secret Keeper (The Atlantic)
- How Do You Find an Alien Ocean? Margaret Kivelson Figured It Out (The New York Times)
- Visualizing the Cosmic Streams That Spew Meteor Showers (The New York Times)
- Plan of landing on the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (esa via YouTube)
- Reconstuction of Philae's flight across the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014 (esa)
- How Comet 67P’s Face Changed During Its Trip Around the Sun (The New York Times)
- Flecks of Extraterrestrial Dust, All Over the Roof
(The New York Times)
- Meteor Showers in 2017 That
Will Light Up Night Skies (The New York Times)
- Complex sugars cooked up from 'comet ice' (BBC)
- February 15, 2013: Exploding meteor over Russia (CBC)
- A Clearer View of the Space Bullet That Grazed Russia (The New York Times)
- US detects huge meteor explosion (BBC)
- Scientists surprised to discover meteor exploded over Bering Sea in December (CBC)
- Networks of cameras are making it easier to track meteors (The Economist)
- How Does NASA Spot a Near-Earth Asteroid? (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
- Asteroid hazards (corsera)
- Astronomers Race to Study a Mystery Object From Outside Our Solar System (The New York Times)
- An Interstellar Tourist Barrels Through the Solar System (The Atlantic)
- Planets could be formed by interstellar objects like ’Oumuamua (Physics World)
- How Ultima Thule Is Like a Sticky, Pull-Apart Pastry (The New York Times)
- Shifting Orbits Gave Solar System A Big Shakeup, Model Suggests (Nice Model) (Science)
- Cataclysmic bashing from giant planets occurred early in our Solar System's history (Science)
- How the planets got their spots (The Economist)
- What Astronomers Can Learn From Hot Jupiters, the Scorching Giant Planets of the Galaxy (Smithsonian magazine)
- The Grand Tack (Mike Brown's online course "Science of the Solar System" via YouTube)
- The Kuiper belt (coursera)
- Properties of dwarf planets (coursera)
- Planet Nine (coursera)
- Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought (Scientific American)
- This Asteroid Shouldn’t Be Where Astronomers Found It (The New York Times)
- Earth May Have Been Formed by a Bunch of Tiny Space Pebbles (The Atlantic)
- An Interstellar Visitor Both Familiar and Alien (The New York Times)
- Alien Asteroids Are Here, Scientists Say. Get Used to Them. (The New York Times)
- Simulating Solar System Formation (California Academy of Sciences)
- Ring Formation: Clues from the Late Heavy Bombardment (Centauri Dreams)
- The new Moon (Physics Today)
- Pan, Moon of Saturn, Looks Like a Cosmic Ravioli (or Maybe a Walnut) (The New York Times)
- Plumes From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Hint That It Could Support Life (The New York Times)
- Saturn’s rings and several of its moons may be recent creations (The Economist)
- Scientists reveal Neptune's tiny new moon, Hippocamp (CBC)
- Rotten egg gas around planet Uranus (BBC)
- Photos of Jupiter From NASA Spacecraft, Both Near and Far (The New York Times)
- Why Is Jupiter's Great Red Spot Shrinking? (The Atlantic)
- Comet with Stunted Tail Hints at How Solar System Formed (Eos)
- Chicxulub impact visualization (Produced by Radek Michalik and David Dolak in collaboration with the Science Institute at Chicago's Columbia College)
- Project to drill into 'dinosaur crater' gets under way (BBC)
- Dinosaur crater's clue to origin of life (BBC)
- Asteroid strike made 'instant Himalayas' (BBC)
- Chicxulub Tsunami (a physics-based computer simulation of the tsunami generated by he impact of the Chicxulub asteroid, YouTube)
- Asteroid impact plunged dinosaurs into catastrophic 'winter' (BBC)
- Dinosaurs Could Have Survived if the Asteroid Had Hit Somewhere Else (The New York Times)
- Splosh! How the dinosaur-killing asteroid made Chicxulub crater (BBC)
- Asteroids are not the only threat to life on Earth (BBC)
- The Nastiest Feud in Science (The Atlantic)
- Meteorite or Volcano? New Clues to the Dinosaurs’ Demise(The New York Times)
- The Day the Dinosaurs Died (The New Yorker)
- Fossil Site Reveals Day That Meteor Hit Earth and, Maybe, Wiped Out Dinosaurs (The New York Times)
- Chicxulub asteroid impact: Stunning fossils record dinosaurs' demise (BBC)
- How Asteroids May Have Brought Water to Earth (The New York Times)
- Ice Age Asteroid Crater Discovered Beneath Greenland Glacier (The New York Times)
- What Happened to Earth’s Ancient Craters? Scientists Seek Clues on the Moon’s Pocked Surface (The New York Times)
- Asteroids are smacking Earth twice as often as before (CBC)
- Earth's oldest asteroid impact 'may have ended ice age' (BBC)
- Earth’s Oldest Asteroid Impact Found in Australia (The New York Times)
- If We Blow Up an Asteroid, It Might Put Itself Back Together (The New York Times)
- The Case for a Gaian Bottleneck: The Biology of Habitability (Astrobiology)
- Without the Moon, Would There Be Life on Earth? (Scientific American)
- What would we do without the moon? (ScienceNordic)
- Thursday’s Summer Solstice and the Search for Life in the Galaxy (The New York Times)
- Never Mind the Summer Heat: Earth Is at Its Greatest Distance From the Sun (The New York Times)
- Large Asteroid Impact Simulation (Discovery Channel)
- Asteroid set for record near-miss (BBC)
- Asteroid Misses Earth Narrowly, by Cosmic Standards (The New York Times)
- Asteroid and Comet Watch (NASA)
- 'Lost' asteroid to fly between moon and Earth (CBC)
- Earth’s mysterious ‘second moon’ and its odd orbit (geek.com) - It is really an asteroid which crosses the Earth's orbit.
- Seismic Shadow Zone: Basic Introduction (IRIS)
- Plate Tectonics (BBC)
- Continents Split Up at the Same Speed Finger Nails Grow. And That’s Fast. (The New York Times)
- The Earth’s Shell Has Cracked, and We’re Drifting on the Pieces (The New York Times)
- A Thorny Debate in Plate Tectonics May Finally Be Resolved (The Atlantic)
- America and Eurasia 'to meet at north pole' (BBC)
- Supercontinent cycles and the calculation of absolute palaeolongitude in deep time (Nature)
- Why Two Volcanoes in Hawaii Are So Close, but So Different (The New York Times)
- Was Mars’ Magnetic Field Blasted Away? (Universe Today)
- When Oceans Disappear (The Atlantic)
- A lake on Mars? New data suggests liquid water lies beneath planet's southern pole (CBC)
- The Mysterious Origins of Mars’s Trailing Asteroids (The Atlantic)
- Earth's magnetic field reversals mimicked in the lab (Nature)
- Scientists record breach in magnetic field (BBC)
- Does an anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field portend a coming pole reversal? (The Conversation)
- When our magnetic field flips, say goodbye to modern life (CBC)
- The North Magnetic Pole’s Mysterious Journey Across the Arctic (The New York Times)
- BIG NEWS: The Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip (science.nasa.gov)
- Earth’s Mysterious Magnetic Field, Stored in a Jar (The New Yorker)
- Antarctic Ice Reveals Earth’s Accelerating Plant Growth (The New York Times)
- The Amazon Is Not Earth’s Lungs (The Atlantic)
- Jupiter's Moon Io Erupts (Discovery Channel)
- These Bright Spots Are Alien Volcanoes (The Atlantic)
- Earth sends oxygen to the moon and may have for billions of years: study (CBC)
- Uncovering the Moon’s Hidden Water (The Atlantic)
- What Happens When You Heat Moon Rocks to 1,400 Degrees? (The Atlantic)
- The Moon's Origin Story Is in Crisis (The Atlantic)
- A Violent Splash of Magma That May Have Made the Moon (The New York Times
- How Was the Moon Made? We Won’t Know Until We Go Back (The New York Times
- Why the far side of the moon is so unknown
(The Economist)
- China Moon mission lands Chang'e-4 spacecraft on far side (BBC)
- To see finally the face of Peggy (BBC)
- Cassini’s Grand Finale: A Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings (The New York Times)
- Cassini Flies Toward a Fiery Death on Saturn (The New York Times)
- Cassini’s Images From Inside Saturn’s Rings (The New York Times)
- Cassini’s grand finale (Physics World)
- Saturn’s rings were formed when dinosaurs roamed Earth (Physics World)
- NASA takes you on a ride to Pluto in new video (CBC)
- Soar over Pluto in stunning hi-def NASA video (CBC)
- What did NASA's New Horizons discover around Pluto? (Astrum)
- What We’ve Learned About Pluto (The New York Times)
- A Close Look at the Most Distant Object NASA Has Ever Explored (The Atlantic)
- Nasa's New Horizons: 'Snowman' shape of distant Ultima Thule revealed (BBC)
- 'Meet Ultima Thule,' the most distant object visited by a spacecraft (CBC)
- New Horizons Glimpses the Flattened Shape of Ultima Thule (The New York Times)
- The politics of Pluto: 10 years later, the bitter debate rages on (CBC)
- Chasing Shadows for a Glimpse of a Tiny World Beyond Pluto (The New York Times")
- It’s the Solar System’s Most Distant Object. Astronomers Named It Farout." (The New York Times")
- Nasa's New Horizons probe strikes distant gold (BBC)
- Lecture: Unveiling Dwarf Planet Ceres(NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
- NASA’s Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt Says Good Night (The New York Times)
- Tales of 2 Rugged Asteroids and 1 Is Ejecting Material Into Space (The New York Times)
- The Mysterious, Exploding Asteroid (The Atlantic)
- The 25 Biggest Turning Points in Earth's History (BBC)
- Alien star system buzzed the Sun (BBC)
-
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (BBC)
- Finding life on 7 exoplanets will be a challenge (CBC)
- Oldest traces of life on Earth found in Quebec, dating back roughly 3.8 billion years (CBC)
- Earth Had Life From Its Infancy (The Atlantic)
- Why Earth's History Appears So Miraculous (The Atlantic)
- A brief history of the Earth's CO2 (BBC)
- Why water is one of the weirdest things in the Universe (BBC)
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