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1/29/2026

Astro News Roundup for January 29th, 2025

 I'll share the videos here but there is a LOT more information over at EadsyAstronomy LINK. Please head over there to read the written text and get links for the articles and news releases I used for this week's main stories. 


1. In this one we learn how scientists and astronomers are using tree rings to identify when a special Solar Storm called  a Miyake event has occurred in the past and how often. 



2. Gravitional Brawls in Star Clusters. How Massive O class Stars get sent packing out of their point of origin and the two ways this occurs. 





3. Zeroing In on the Monster in Messier 87; No not the Black Hole 




4. It's been since 1604 since people on Earth have with their own eyes, seen a visual supernova in the sky. Well, we are about to begin to see a LOT more supernovae that go off in our own backyard here in the Milky Way Galaxy thanks to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. 


5. There has been  a lot of discussion on Dyson Spheres and Bubbles, and other Alien Megastructures. One of the questions is can these megastructures really hold up and be stable? Well, this report says . . .