Black Holes

"A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying.

Because no light can get out, people can't see black holes. They are invisible. Space telescopes with special tools can help find black holes. The special tools can see how stars that are very close to black holes act differently than other stars."

-http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-a-black-hole-k4.html

The Tailless Comet (C/2014 S3)

The Manx illustrated realistically

In 2014, a near-tailless comet was spotted while it flew by earth. It was called C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS) or "MANX," since Manx cats are mostly tailless. Researchers are saying that it has just returned, and actually began it's voyage rather close to the sun, and may be able to tell us more about the building blocks of our planet, at least when it first walk out of fire. It was a majestic ball of what looked like a black rocky substance trying to contain super heated iron and gold by smothering it, trying to close in on it but in a grand struggle to do so. Of course, that's what we "think". We also "think" that we know about the layers of the earth and what they're made of. Us humans "think" a lot of things. But the more proof we have, the more sure we can be. Studies of the comet are being thought over.

Pulsars

Pulsars. They're the skeletons of stars gone wrong. With every object, there is a death. A decaying point at which it stops or begins to stop existing or living. That includes stars. A star's death is not a sad funeral where a handful of people wearing black go to mourn, but rather an explosion. The term for such an explosion is supernova. When a star collapses, it exhausts all of it's energy into a massive combustion, which is known as the most violent, powerful event in the universe. What is left behind is a small ball of light, not very large, yet extremely heavy. A pulsar. Basically, it's a rotating neutron star, or highly compacted core of a dead, massive star. It emits radioactive pulses at a high frequency while rotating, hence the name. They send out a pulse every time a clock ticks to show a second has passed. Such a high fire rate. Not to be confused with quasars, which basically emit huge amounts of energy and sometimes cause black holes at the center of younger galaxies. For more information, go to the site below.

http://www.seasky.org/celestial-objects/pulsars.html

Japan's X-ray Telescope is Gone

  Last month, the Japanese satellite ceased all communication with earth. Everything was working fine since it was launched until March 17, when it stopped radio signal. They just announced it yesterday, while including that they will accelerate and focus more on finding out what meant wrong. The idea was to scan for X rays in Supernovas and Galaxy clusters. It's sad that it was not a possibility. I think that it might have been hit by something or a similar situation. Although, I am not sure at all. For more information, go to the site pasted below-

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/japan-x-ray-telescope-astro-h-officially-dead?tgt=nr