NASA explores solar wind with new view of small sun structures
Credit: NASA/SDO/Uritsky, et al. Scientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar ...
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A ‘super-puff’ planet like no other
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, M. Kornmesser. The core mass of the giant exoplanet WASP-107b is much lower than what was thought ...
Astronomers document the rise and fall of a rarely observed stellar dance
Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute The sun is the only star in our system. But many of the points of ...
Building a giant 2D map of the universe to prepare for the largest 3D map
Nearly 200 researchers pitched in to gather, process, and stitch together images for half of the sky to prepare for ...
NASA missions unmask magnetar eruptions in nearby galaxies
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona On April 15, 2020, a brief burst ...
Astronomers find signature of magnetar outbursts in nearby galaxies
Spacecraft detect giant flare in nearby galaxy, allowing localization in star forming regionCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam ...
Chandra studies extraordinary magnetar
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of West Virginia/H. Blumer; Infrared (Spitzer and Wise): NASA/JPLCalTech/Spitzer In 2020, astronomers added a new member to ...
The world’s first integrated quantum communication network
Credit: university of science and technology of China Chinese scientists have established the world's first integrated quantum communication network, combining ...
Reawakened geyser does not foretell Yellowstone volcanic eruptions, study shows
Analysis of Steamboat Geyser also finds relationship between column height and reservoir depthCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Mara Reed When ...
Subscriptions to satellite alerts linked to decreased deforestation in Africa
Credit: Fanny Moffette / University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Deforestation dropped by 18 percent in two years in African ...
Blood alcohol levels much lower than the legal limit impair hand-eye coordination
Credit: Credit: NASA In previous studies, eye movements and vision were only affected at blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) approaching the ...
NASA’s Webb sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests
Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn Lengthened to the size of a tennis court, the five-layer sunshield of NASA's fully assembled James ...
The Subaru Telescope photographs the next target asteroid for Hayabusa2
Credit: NAOJ On December 10, 2020 (Hawai?i Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998 KY26, the target ...
A pair of lonely planet-like objects born like stars
Credit: © University of Bern, Illustration: Thibaut Roger Star-forming processes sometimes create mysterious astronomical objects called brown dwarfs, which are ...