Exoplanets rich in Hydrogen and Helium could be habitable for billions of years
The universe just got a lot more interesting.
Tag: helium
Magnetic field readings point to the structure of Saturn’s interior
Until we can put a person on Saturn to check, we can't confirm these findings.
What are stars made of?
The vast majority of stars are made almost entirely of hydrogen (about 90%) and helium (about 10%), with trace amounts ...
Helium exoplanet inflates like a balloon
Helium was predicted to be one of the most common elements of exoplanets, but was only recently observed for the ...
Astronomers find helium in exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time
It took abnormally look considering helium is the 2nd most abundant element in the universe.
Your party is saved! Scientists find a massive stash of Helium beneath Tanzania
We just bought some more time.
How we’re wasting all our precious helium. A call for recycling
Most people don't know this but helium -- the familiar inert gas we all use to inflate party balloons -- ...
Star dies in a dazzling 3-D spiral light show – might surface new details on star evolution
Curious spiral spotted by ALMA around red giant star R Sculptoris (data visualisation). (c) ALMA Astronomers have come across a ...
Helium presence confirmed on the Moon’s thin atmosphere
According to recent findings as a result of observations from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), it seems like the moon's ...
Elemental gas clouds formed minutes after the Big Bang found
One of the fundamental backbones of the Big Bang theory states that after the rapid expansion of the Universe only ...
The star that should not exist
If you look at this picture, you will probably see what can only be described as an unremarkable, even faint ...
First frictionless superfluid molecules created
Superfluidity is a weird property, by all standards. Basically it is a state of matter in which all the viscosity ...