Astronomers now have the 1st direct image of a black hole ripping apart a star. The star-stuff goes into a disk surrounding the hole, and it's also ejected back to space in powerful jets.
Researchers found the fossils in a South Australian fossil bed dubbed Alice’s Restaurant Bed, a tribute to the Arlo Guthrie song lyric, “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.”
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The Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our Milky Way's satellite galaxies. The nebula - at the top of the image above - is about 160,000 light-years away.
