[ad_1] This is a telescopic ground-level photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The galaxy is one of several selected targets of a new initiative with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope called ULLYSES (UV Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards). The program …
Read More »The photographer captures the ISS crossing the Sun and the Moon from his backyard
[ad_1] Photographer Andrew McCarthy is known for taking stunning astrophotography images from his court in Sacramento, California. He recently added two more jaw-dropping images to his portfolio – an ultra-sharp view of the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting the Sun and Moon. As the ISS whizzes across the Sun and …
Read More »Large area flexible organic photodiodes can compete with silicon devices
[ad_1] Georgia Tech lead research scientist Canek Fuentes-Hernandez possesses rigid and flexible large-area organic photodiodes whose performance is comparable to that of silicon-based photodiodes. (Credit: Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Georgia Tech) The performance of large-area flexible organic photodiodes has advanced to the point where they can now offer advantages over conventional silicon …
Read More »Astronomers track a mysterious fast radio burst to an extreme and rare star
[ad_1] In 2007, examining a mine of radio telescope data, Duncan Lorimer, an astrophysicist at West Virginia University, spotted something unusual. The data obtained six years earlier showed a brief, forceful burst lasting no more than 5 milliseconds. Others had seen the blip and looked beyond, but Lorimer and his …
Read More »Meet Ajnabia odysseus, Africa’s first duck-billed dinosaur | Paleontology
[ad_1] An international team of paleontologists has identified a new genus and a new species of lambeosaurine hadrosaur from fossils excavated in Morocco, North Africa. An artist’s impression of a group of hadrosaurs. Image credit: Raul Martin. The newly discovered dinosaur, nicknamed Ajnabia odysseus, wandered our planet some 66 million …
Read More »The anatomy of glacial ice loss
[ad_1] A warm climate is putting a strain on the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica, melting them from above and below. The more they melt, the higher the sea level. When an ice cube is exposed to a heat source, such as hot water or air, it melts. Hence, it …
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Read More »NASA News: Saturn Hubble Telescope Images Reveal Solar Eclipse on Ringed Giant | Science | news
[ad_1] “The gas giant could float in a bathtub if there were such a colossal thing.” On September 30, 1996, the space agency’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope turned its attention to Saturn. Hubble took a series of images in black and white, orange and blue, green and red to create …
Read More »SpaceX has brought a new generation of GPS into orbit. View the flight record for space forces
[ad_1] It was another mission for Trump’s Space Force. However, NASA was also eagerly awaiting the flight. Because? We have updated the article at 20.20 with information on the good flight. Twenty-four minutes after midnight, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Florida, launching a third-generation GPS satellite into …
Read More »First example of a rapid-fire tongue found in “weird and wonderful” extinct amphibians
[ad_1] GAINESVILLE, Florida — Fossils of bizarre armored amphibians known as albanerpetontids provide the earliest evidence of a slingshot-style language, new Science study shows. Despite having lizard-like claws, scales and tails, albanerpetontids – mercifully called “albies” for short – were amphibians, not reptiles. Their lineage was different from today’s frogs, …
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