NASA’s great observatories help astronomers build a 3D visualization of an exploded star
Credit: NASA, ESA and J. DePasquale (STScI) and R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning ...
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Simulated image demonstrates the power of NASA’s wide field infrared survey telescope
Credit: NASA, STScI and B.F. Williams (University of Washington) Imagine a fleet of 100 Hubble Space Telescopes, deployed in a ...
Scientists develop new method to detect oxygen on exoplanets
Technique could speed search for life in outer spaceCredit: (NASA/GSFC/Friedlander-Griswold) Scientists have developed a new method for detecting oxygen in ...
UNC expert helps treat astronaut’s blood clot during NASA mission
Blood clot expert Stephan Moll, M.D., professor of medicine in the UNC School of Medicine, consulted NASA on how to ...
FEFU scientists participate in development of ceramic materials that are IR-transparent
Credit: FEFU press office Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) teamed up with colleagues from Institute of Chemistry (FEB ...
Lasers learn to accurately spot space junk
Scientists applied a set of algorithms to laser-ranging telescopes and succeeded in increasing accurate detection of the space litter in ...
Nightside barrier gently brakes ‘bursty’ plasma bubbles
Physicists extend Rice Convection Model with details of magnetospheric buoyancy wavesCredit: K. Sorathia/JHUAPL HOUSTON - (Dec. 20, 2019) - The ...
NASA’s GISMO instrument maps inner Milky Way, sees cosmic ‘candy cane’
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center A feature resembling a candy cane appears at the center of this colorful composite ...
Successful satellite launch for Graz University of Technology, Austria
ESA's OPS-SAT mission to test new space technology in orbital flightCredit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz The aim of the ...
Finding a killer electron hot spot in Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts
Credit: ERG Science Team A collaboration between researchers in Japan, the USA, and Russia has found a hot spot in ...
Interstellar comet 2I — Borisov swings past sun
Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA) When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like ...
Newfound Martian aurora actually the most common; sheds light on Mars’ changing climate
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center A type of Martian aurora first identified by NASA's MAVEN spacecraft in 2016 is ...
Estimates of ecosystem carbon mitigation improved towards the goal of the Paris agreement
Credit: Masayuki Kondo Approximately 30 percent of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by human activities, mainly the use of fossil ...
No ‘clouded’ judgments: Geostationary satellite an alternative to monitor land surfaces
Researchers explain how a new meteorological satellite can be an option to monitor land surfaces and climate changeCredit: Tomoaki Miura ...
The Antarctic: study from Kiel provides data about the structure of the icy continent
European Space Agency publishes a 3D model of the AntarcticCredit: © Planetary Visions (credit: ESA/Planetary Visions) The Antarctic is one ...
Swiss space telescope CHEOPS: Rocket launch set for December 17, 2019
Credit: ESA / ATG medialab CHEOPS (short for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) consists of a space telescope developed and assembled by ...
NRL, NASA combine to produce sun imagery with unprecedented clarity
Credit: (U.S. Navy/Released) WASHINGTON -- Early returns from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's camera on NASA's latest mission to study ...
Sun’s close-up reveals atmosphere hopping with highly energetic particles
New data from the first two orbits by NASA's Parker Solar ProbeCredit: Image by Jamey Szalay and David McComas; Adapted ...
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail
This animation shows an explosive outburst of dust, ice and gases from comet 46P/Wirtanen that occurred on September 26, 2018 ...
GPS inventors honored by HRH the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace today
The 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is awarded to Dr. Brad Parkinson, Hugo Fruehauf, Dick Schwartz, and James Spilker, ...
