The winter solstice is almost here, the Northern Hemisphere's darkest day The winter solstice is Saturday, bringing the shortest day and longest night of the year to the Northern Hemisphere. The good news for those who like more sunshine is that starting Sunday, days will get a little bit longer every single day until late June. As the Earth travels around the sun, it does so at an angle.
For most of the year, the Earth’s axis is tilted either toward or away from the sun. That means the sun’s warmth and light fall unequally on the northern and southern halves of the planet. Two stars may be orbiting each other near a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
Nearly every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its heart. Scientists know stars can form near and even orbit these black hole behemoths, but they’ve never seen a pair of stars survive so close by. At about 2.
7 million years old, the twin stars seem to be fairly young. In the next million years, scientists say they could merge into one. The research was published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
Woman who stowed away on flight to Paris arrested again in Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Russian woman who was arrested after she stowed away on a flight from New York City to Paris last month has been arrested again in Buffal.
