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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 24/09/2026
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Superconductivity
Electricity without Resistance
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 22/09/2026
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Stellar Collapse
On Massive Neutron Cores (1939)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 19/09/2026
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Anatomy of Stagnation
Let’s Get Back to the Future
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/09/2026
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Navier–Stokes
The Physics of Chaotic Flow
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 11/09/2026
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Closed Timelike Curves
Time Travel in General Relativity
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 06/09/2026
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Magnetic Monopoles
Quantised Singularities in the Electromagnetic Field (1931)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 12/08/2026
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Creation Stories
Humanity’s First Reckoning with Physical Reality
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 28/06/2026
Galaxy Cluster Abell NGC2218, located 2 billion light-years away in the Draco constellation. It is a massive cluster with as many as 10,000 individual galaxies. The light from many of these galaxies undergoes gravitational lensing. (Andrew Fruchter et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 26/06/2026
Light wave captured at 10 trillion frames per second taken by TheSlowMoGuys.
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 08/05/2026
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The One-Way Speed of Light Problem
A radical challenge to special relativity
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 17/04/2026
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The EPR Paradox: Quantum Action at a Distance
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? (1935)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 13/04/2026
Galaxy cluster, Abell S1063, located 4.5 billion light-years away. The characteristic signs of gravitational lensing can also be seen in this Hubble Space Telescope photo. (NASA, ESA, and M. Montes, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 10/04/2026
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What Exactly is Mass?
A comprehensive guide
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 30/03/2026
The Tulip Nebula, also known as SH2-101, located 8,000 light years away in the constellation Cygnus. It is an emission nebula which means it emits its own light due to ionization from nearby young stars.
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 28/03/2026
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Cosmic Inflation
Fact or fiction?
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 25/02/2026
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The Road to Quantum Gravity
Demystifying the holy grail of physics
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 19/02/2026
Copelandʼs Septet, a group of seven galaxies located about 480 million lightyears away in the constellation Leo. (KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Neil Jacobstein/Adam Block)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 19/02/2026
Infrared photo of the Horsehead Nebula. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 18/02/2026
Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars.
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 18/02/2026
The surface of Comet 67P as seen by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta lander in September 2014. (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA; J. Roger – CC BY SA 4.0)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 18/02/2026
Some newborn stars eject powerful jets of ionized radiation, illuminating the surrounding gas clouds. These rare formations are known as herbig–haro objects. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 17/02/2026
Image of the Cat’s Paw Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. It features concentric shells of gas and dust expanding outwards from a central, dying star. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 10/05/2025
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The Chandrasekhar Limit
The Highly Collapsed Configurations of a Stellar Mass (1935)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 16/02/2026
Photo of protoplanetary disk HH 30 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. It contains a young star which emits a luminous jet of outflowing gas. (NASA/ESA/CSA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 16/02/2026
NGC 5394 and NGC 5395, an interacting pair of galaxies in the Canes Venatici constellation. Their merger will be known collectively as the Heron Galaxy. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 16/02/2026
NGC 1333, a star-forming region located 1,000 light years from Earth and home to many energetic proto-stars less than a million years old. (T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/02/2026
A star cluster known as G35.2-0.7N, a region of intense star formation. It is home to a massive B-type star that produces a protostellar jet. It is the source of the dust clouds which fill the center this image. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Fedriani, J. Tan)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/02/2026
Wide-angle view of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies. (CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/SMASH/D. Nidever, Travis Rector, Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/02/2026
Spiral Galaxy IC 342 located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth. (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T.A. Rector (NSF NOIRLab/University of Alaska Anchorage) & H. Schweiker)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/02/2026
Photo depicting gravitational lensing around galaxy cluster CL0024+1654, located around 5 billion light years from Earth. The multiple blue loops scattered across the image are actually copies of the same distant spiral galaxy. (NASA, W.N. Colley and E. Turner, J.A. Tyson)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/02/2026
Nearby spiral galaxy, Messier 106. The supermassive black hole at its center produces two extra spiral arms, shown in green, composed of hot gas. (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Glenn)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/02/2026
The Double Helix Nebula, located only 300 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Incredibly strong and twisted magnetic fields in this region of the galaxy give the nebula its unique geometry. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Morris, UCLA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/02/2026
Dwarf planet Eris situated near Pluto in the Kuiper Belt. Discovered in 2005, its atmosphere freezes into snow when it is farther from the Sun and thaws when it gets closer. Eris is slightly smaller than Pluto, but more massive. (Southwest Research Institute)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/02/2026
An interacting pair of galaxies known as IC 1623. As the galaxies merge, intense star formation is triggered which is accompanied by bright outbursts of radiation. (X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and J. Major)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/02/2026
Photo of Pluto’s surface taken by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. Evidence can be seen for a cryovolcano, a type of volcano that spews out icy water, methane, or ammonia instead of molten rock. (NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/02/2026
The Red Spider Nebula viewed through the James Webb Space Telescope. It was produced by a star like our Sun reaching the end of its life and shedding its outer layers into space. Radiation from the star’s exposed core continues to ionize clouds of outflowing gas. (NASA/ESA/CSA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/02/2026
Galaxy group VV 166, located 300 million light years away. The arms of the spiral galaxy at the top, NGC 70, are distorted due to tidal interactions with neighboring galaxies. (International Gemini Observatory/AURA)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 10/02/2026
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 24/01/2026
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Fission: Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Disintegration of uranium by neutrons: a new type of nuclear reaction (1939)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 01/12/2024
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Exit the Matrix
One of the most common memes of our modern digital age is the premise that the world and everything it contains is part of a simulation.
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/12/2024
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The X-ray
On a New Kind of Rays (1896)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 23/12/2024
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General Relativity
The Field Equations of Gravitation (1915)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 24/12/2024
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The Pre-socratics
Birth of a Primordial Physics
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 15/02/2025
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Quantum Computing: The Basics
Grover's Algorithm
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 06/01/2025
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Wave-Particle Duality
Interference fringes with feeble light (1909)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 31/12/2024
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Radioactivity
On the rays emitted by phosphorescence (1896)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 13/01/2025
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Electron Charge
On the elementary electrical charge and the Avogadro constant (1913)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 14/01/2025
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The Schwarzschild Solution
On the Gravitational Field of a Mass Point according to Einstein’s Theory (1916)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 31/01/2025
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Hidden Symmetries
Invariant Variational Problems (1918)
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Astrophysica @thephysicsjournal.substack.com · 13/02/2025
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The Stern-Gerlach Experiment
The experimental proof of space quantization in a magnetic field (1922)
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