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Blue plus blue and blacks more black? How science enhances colors

[ad_1] This story appears in the December 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was the bright, iridescent blue of the morpho butterfly that inspired Andrew Parnell and his colleagues. Impressed by the insect’s natural ability to produce vibrant hues, physicists and chemists began to study how they too could …

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There are at least 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy, according to NASA – jacksonprogress-argus

[ad_1] There are at least 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy, according to NASAjacksonprogress-argus Are you looking for another land? There are 300 million here, perhapsDeccan Herald NASA Planet Hunter Data Reveals 50% of Sun-Like Stars Could Host Potentially Habitable PlanetsSciTechDaily View full coverage on Google News . …

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For Halloween, NASA turns astronomy into movie posters

[ad_1] This week, NASA released several downloadable posters showing astronomical topics like vintage science fiction movies in their Galaxy of Horrors. It’s not the first time they’ve turned science into creative vintage posters, but making posters isn’t the only reason NASA regularly works with artists. Many of the images accompanying …

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There is definitely water on the surface of the moon

[ad_1] Scientist Casey Honniball and her team measured the wavelengths of sunlight reflected from the lunar surface, discovering a chemical trace that clearly confirms the presence of H2O. The data that led to the discovery were collected by the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) consisting of a special 2.5 …

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