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Eye spy a foam

Image: Another fluid experiment joins long running research on foam stability on the International Space Station. The Foam-Coarsening experiment, developed by Airbus for ESA, is scheduled to be activated this month in the Fluid Science Laboratory in the European Columbus module. The foams come in self-contained cells, imaged above, and hold liquids that will be […]

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Hubble Spies Galactic Traffic Jam

NGC 3887 is one of many galaxies in our universe with spiral arms, just like our own Milky Way. Until the 1960s, the behavior of spiral arms was an astronomical puzzle. The arms emanate from a spinning core and “should” therefore become wound up ever more tightly over time. Instead, they move more slowly, like […]

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Burned area trends in the Amazon similar to previous years

Thousands of fires broke out in the Amazon last year – sparking an international media frenzy. A detailed analysis, using data from the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative, indicates that while there was a small increase of fires in 2019 compared to 2018, fires in Brazil were similar to the average annual number of […]

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Earth from Space: Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Video: 00:03:13 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. See also Canadian Arctic Archipelago to download the image. In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over part of the Canadian […]

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