Enlarge / Tiny samples of the Hypatia stone next to a small coin. Rare type Ia supernovas are some of the most energetic events in the universe. Researchers found a consistent pattern of 15 elements in the Hypatia stone, unlike anything in our solar system or in the Milky Way Jan Kramers reader comments 1 ..
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Enlarge / A new theory holds that Stonehenge served as an ancient solar calendar. Timothy Darvill/Bournemouth University reader comments 90 with 44 posters participating Share this story Scholars have long speculated that the famed prehistoric monument Stonehenge might have served as some kind of calendar that helped local people predict eclipses, summer and winter solstices, ..
Enlarge / Only the onset of Ragnarök can defeat Hela, the goddess of death, in Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok. (credit: Marvel Studios) In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a cataclysmic series of events leading to the death of Odin and his fellow Asgardian gods and, ultimately, to the end of the world. Some iconographic details of this ..