[NEWS] Five space science links: ocean worlds, M75, wormholes, neutron stars, black holes, LIGO

[rfmcdonald]

• Gizmodo notes the remarkable depth of the oceans of water worlds, going hundreds of kilometres down (or more!).


• Motherboard reports on the latest Hubble images of Messier 75, a star cluster that is the vestige of a galaxy absorbed into the Milky Way.


• Matt Williams at Universe Today notes a new study suggesting that, while traversable wormholes might be physically possible without exotic matter, they would not allow for FTL travel.


• Paul Sutter at Universe Today notes that a closer study of kilonovas might allow for a better understanding of the interior structures of neutron stars.


• Ars Technica notes that LIGO may have detected a collision between a black hole and a neutron star.

Comments

[ffutures]

The water world thing really messes up the plot of V, also the old film Ice Pirates!