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Comet’s Devastating Explosion Over North America 1,500 Years Ago Caused Extensive Destruction
Did comet’s fiery destruction lead to downfall of ancient Hopewell?
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati find evidence of cosmic cataclysm 1,500 years ago at 11 ancient sites.The rapid decline of the Hopewell…
An Expanse of Light – Dazzling New Multiwavelength Images of the Universe From NASA
A new gallery of images combining X-ray data from Chandra with those from other telescopes is being released.
The objects range from a supernova remnant within the Milky Way to a galaxy cluster millions of light years…
A Million Miles Away – Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth
This animation features actual satellite images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and telescope, and the Earth…
How a Magnetic ‘Tug-of-War’ With Io’s Volcanic Eruptions Creates Jupiter’s…
Jupiter's auroras – the lights that dance around its poles – are the most distinct in our solar system and over a thousand times brighter than Earth's aurora. Now, a new study confirms that these otherworldly polar lights come…
Origin of Supermassive Black Hole Flares Identified: Magnetic “Reconnection” Near the Event Horizon
A top-down view of a black hole during the lead-up to a flare. Hot plasma initially flows into the black hole. As the magnetic field evolves, this flow reverses and launches some material outward. That accelerated material…
Even Dying Stars Could Give Birth to Brand New Planets
When young stars coalesce out of a cloud of molecular hydrogen, a disk of leftover material called a protoplanetary disk surrounds them. This disk is where planets form, and astronomers are getting better at peering into those…
The heart of the Milky Way looks like contemporary art in this new radio image
An image that looks like a trippy Eye of Sauron or splatter of modern art is actually a new detailed look at the Milky Way’s chaotic center, as seen in radio wavelengths.The image was taken with the MeerKAT radio telescope array in…
Near Space Labs to offer 10-centimeter resolution imagery
SAN FRANCISCO – Near Space Labs is upgrading instruments mounted on its Swifty high-altitude balloons to capture imagery of Arizona, California and Texas with a resolution of 10 centimeters per pixel.“We are ramping up a…
Today’s SpaceX launch marks 3rd Falcon 9 flight in 4 days
The SpaceX Falcon 9 in this photo, taken on January 30, 2022, is set to launch the CSG-2 satellite from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. In the background, at right, is the Starlink batch atop a second Falcon 9 at…
GOES-T launch preparations underway
WASHINGTON — Preparations are underway for the launch of the next in a series of geostationary weather satellites that will also mark the end of a decades-long streak for one company.At a briefing organized by the National…