When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Now the diameter of the known universe can be described as 558 billion trillion miles (that’s 558 followed by 21 zeros) or 28 gigaparsecs. If you’re like most astronomers, I’m pretty sure which size ...

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FireChicken2396 said essentially the same thing in a comment on NexusMods: "It baffles me that Bethesda chose to use BOTH Light Years and Astronomical Units in the game. AU was most of the time in ...

A man who got caught up with an international drug syndicate was trying to clear a $15,000 debt he amassed by consuming an "astronomical" amount of cocaine, a court has been told. Connor McFarlane ...

If you think of the distance from the Earth to the Sun (approximately 93 million miles) as 1 AU (Astronomical Unit) then the Oort Cloud begins, way, way past Neptune at about 1,000 AUs.

If you don't know, an AU (Astronomical Unit) is 93 million miles, or the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. Here's the problem.

The Sun and Earth are 149 million kilometres apart, and we give this distance a name: an astronomical unit (AU). For an even twistier unit of distance, we use the parsec (insert Han Solo Kessel ...

One astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and Sun, approximately 91.757 million miles. For comparison, the dwarf planet Pluto is located 34 AU from the Sun. This illustration shows ...

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