Michelle Starr
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Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Recent articles by Michelle:
Astronomers Think They Know The Reason For Uranus's Kooky Off-Kilter Axis
Uranus marches to the beat of its own weird little drum. → Read More
2 Incredibly Rare Exoplanets Could Give Us Insights About a Planet Close to Home
Around an orange dwarf star just 130 light-years from Earth, astronomers have discovered an unexpected treasure. → Read More
Biology Inspires a New Kind of Water-Based Circuit That Could Transform Computing
The future of neural network computing could be a little soggier than we were expecting. → Read More
A Planet-Sized Heatwave Has Been Found in Jupiter's Atmosphere
A heatwave the size of 10 Earths has been discovered rippling through Jupiter's atmosphere. → Read More
These Are The Most Distant Star Clusters Ever Seen, And We Nearly Missed Them
The very first deep field image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just delivered a new treasure from the early Universe. → Read More
Glass Beads Reveal That Lunar Impacts Echo a History of Catastrophes Here on Earth
Microscopic fragments of glass from the Moon have revealed a history of lunar impacts that lines up precisely with meteorite impacts here on Earth – including the giant asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed most life on Earth and wiped out... → Read More
Stunning New Pics Capture The Incredible Moment a Spacecraft Struck an Asteroid
Yesterday, humanity achieved a new and amazing first, 11 million kilometers (6.8 million miles) from home. → Read More
Shimmering 'Lakes' Under The South Pole of Mars Might Be Something Else Entirely
What scientists thought were lakes of liquid water hiding under the southern polar ice cap of Mars could turn out to be… just regular old rock. → Read More
Diamond From 660 Kilometers Below Earth's Surface Reveals a Water-Rich Environment
Deep below the surface of our world, far beyond our feeble reach, enigmatic processes grind and roil. → Read More
A Stunning New 3D Model of The Cat's Eye Nebula May Help Us Solve Its Mysteries
The twisty eruption of a dying star has finally been revealed in all its 3D glory. → Read More
A New FRB Signal Has Buzzed Nearly 2,000 Times in Just Two Months, Raising a Mystery
We have detected a strange new signal from across the chasm of time and space. → Read More
A Weird Blob of Hot Gas Is Whizzing Around Sagittarius A* With 'Mind-Blowing Velocity'
In the wacky gravitational environment in the heart of our galaxy, astronomers have found a gas blob orbiting our supermassive black hole at superspeed. → Read More
A History of Tiny Asteroid Impacts Forced Our Moon to 'Wander' on Its Axis
New evidence has shown how asteroids slamming into the Moon have changed the positions of its poles. → Read More
JWST's First Glimpse of Mars Reveals The Red Planet in a New Light
The James Webb Space Telescope has made incredible headway, peering farther across space and time than any telescope that came before. → Read More
Earth's First Continents Sank Into The Planet Before Rising Up Again
A new examination of some of the oldest rocks in the world suggests that the first continents on Earth were unstable, and sank back into the mantle before making their way out again and reforming. → Read More
A Robot on Mars Detected The Tremors of Meteorites Hitting The Red Planet
An instrument designed to detect seismic activity on Mars has just revealed an incredibly cool new ability, detecting faint tremors from meteorites impacting the red planet. → Read More
This Trait of Red Dwarf Star Systems Could Help Us Resolve The Red Sky Paradox
There's something very peculiar about Earth, aside from all the organisms crawling all over it. → Read More
Byzantine Records of Solar Eclipses Have Refined Measurements of Earth's Spin
Records of solar eclipses from a millennium and a half ago have allowed scientists to refine measurements of Earth's changing rotation. → Read More
Hubble Captures 2 Galaxies Overlapping to Form a Stunning Interstellar 'Snail'
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope beautifully illustrates why astronomers need to be so careful about distance in space. → Read More
Fascinating Study Gives a Unique Glimpse Into How Dogs See The World
Putting cute dogs in an MRI machine and watching their brains while they watch home movies might sound like a rollicking good time just for its own sake. → Read More