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Antarctic Microbes Hold Clue to Earth's Oxygen
Ian Hawes and Anne Jungblut dissecting and documenting samples of microbial mats from the floor of Lake Fryxell collected by divers. Divers bring samples of the mat to the surface in plastic containers (one is visible on the bench top), where researchers dissect them for various analytical purposes. Ian and Anne are inside one of […]
This Monster Galaxy is Too Bright for Its Own Good
An artist’s image of the most luminous galaxy ever observed, which is destroying itself from within. If all the galaxies in the universe lay at the same distance from the sun, this one would shine the brightest.Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) The most luminous galaxy ever observed is tearing itself apart from […]
Orion the Hunter: Spot Beloved Constellation Overhead Now
Step outside on any evening this month and look toward the south. You will see one of the best-loved constellations, Orion the Hunter, surrounded by a circle of six brilliant stars. Orion is one of the best-known star patterns in the night sky , along with the Big Dipper. If you live in the Northern […]
New Horizons Launched for Pluto 10 Years Ago This Week
An artist’s view of NASA’s New Horizons probe passing through the Pluto-Charon system. This week (Jan. 19) marks 10 years since the probe was launched from Earth.Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, Pluto was a blurry picture in even state-of-the-art telescopes. Today, we […]
How Astronomers Could Actually See 'Planet Nine'
Artist’s concept of “Planet Nine,” a hypothesized world about 10 times more massive than Earth that may orbit far from the sun.Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) If Planet Nine really exists, astronomers have a pretty decent chance of spotting it. On Wednesday (Jan. 19), scientists announced that a planet about 10 times more massive than Earth […]
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NASA Expands Frontiers of Next New Frontiers Competition
Saturn’s moons Titan (left) and Enceladus, both potentially habitable worlds, are now eligible for consideration as destinations for NASA’s next New Frontiers mission.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute WASHINGTON — NASA has added two potentially habitable moons of Saturn to the list of possible destinations for its next billion-dollar planetary science mission. In a Jan. 6 “community […]
Watch Earth Get Hotter – 135 Years Of Temperature Changes Visualized
Worldwide temperature data from 1880 – 2015 has here been color-mapped and animated. 2015 – the warmest year for which scientists have data – beats 2014 (the previous record-holder) by .23 degrees Fahrenheit (0.13 Celsius). Credit: GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio To source
Searching for Earth 2.0 Around a Neighboring Star
Composite image showing a diagram of Proxima Centauri, the Milky Way and ESO’s 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile.Credit: ESO/Pale Red Dot Are there Earth-like planets in a neighboring star system? A new campaign called “Pale Red Dot” aims to show the public in real-time how to push astronomy to its limits to […]
Five Planet Conjunction to Dazzle Night Skies This Week
On May 1, 2011, the moon, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus formed a stunning conjunction (seen here over the ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile). This week Saturn will also join the fun.Credit: ESO For the first time in over a decade, five planets will take center stage in the morning sky this week. Mercury, […]
'Planet Nine' May Exist: New Evidence for Another World in Our Solar System
The mythical “Planet X” may actually be real, and scientists are calling it “Planet Nine.” Astronomers have found evidence for a planet 10 times more massive than Earth in the far outer solar system, orbiting about 20 times farther from the sun than distant Neptune does. “This would be a real ninth planet ,” one […]