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 Supermassive black holes are mysterious entities that lurk hungrily in the hearts of probably every large galaxy in the observable Universe , where they hide in sinister, voracious secret, waiting for their dinner to come swirling down to their waiting maws. These in-falling buffets may consist of destroyed stars, clouds of disrupted gas, or any other unfortunate celestial object that has been wrecked by the big black hole's gravitational snatching claws. Once a doomed object has passed the fatal point of no return, referred to as the event horizon, it can never return from the lair of this gravitational beast, and it is lost to the rest of the Universe forevermore. But, despite their bad reputation for being mercilessly destructive, one supermassive black hole that haunts the heart of a galaxy far, far away, has shown itself to have a nurturing character. This object has a maternal heart, and is aiding in the birth of bright new baby stars that are more than one million light-ye

 No other planet in our Solar System has inspired the human imagination more than Mars. This is because, historically, the Red Planet was considered the most likely world to be the distant home of life beyond Earth. While this viewpoint has certainly become greatly outdated, Mars still entices Earthlings with its rusty-red surface, etched with small valleys carved into slopes, that are eerily similar in shape to gullies formed by rushing water flowing on the surface of our own planet--and where liquid water exists, life as we know it may also exist. But, today, Mars is a frigid and dry wasteland, where violent dust storms are common-- but, every ten years or so, something unpredictable happens, and a series of runaway storms break out that cover the entire planet in a dense shroud of swirling dust. In November, 2019, planetary scientists announced that a fleet of NASA spacecraft managed to get a good look at the life cycle of the enormous--and highly destructive--2018 global dust sto

 An exoplanet is a planet that is the offspring of a distant star, and resides outside our own Solar System. Some of these alien worlds resemble the planets inhabiting our Sun's family, while others are so different that they are true " oddballs "--unlike anything astronomers have every observed in our Solar System. In the process of hunting for distant alien worlds beyond our Star, astronomers have come to the unavoidable conclusion that planets can be composed of almost anything. In December 2019, a team of astronomers announced their discovery of a completely new class of planet unlike anything ever seen before. These "puffed up" oddballs are so bloated that they are almost the same size as Jupiter, but only 1/100th its mass. Mercury Venus, Earth, and Mars are the terrestria l planets inhabiting our own Solar System. In dramatic contrast, the most massive of the quartet of outer planets, Jupiter and Saturn, are both classified as gas giants. Uranus and Neptun