Tag Archives: Space / planetary science

[ad_1] IMAGE: Illustration of a young radio jet launched from a supermassive black hole in the center of a distant galaxy. View More Credit: (National Radio Astronomy Observatory Photo Illustration, Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO / AUI / NSF) WASHINGTON – Researchers from the US Naval Research Laboratory have led a …

[ad_1] IMAGE: Left: section of the cerebellum, with magnification factor 40x, obtained with electron microscopy (Dr. E. Zunarelli, University Hospital of Modena); right: section of a cosmological simulation, with an extension of 300 … views More Credit: University of Bologna In their article published in Frontiers of physics, Franco Vazza …

[ad_1] IMAGE: Representation of the orbit of the star 232121.57-160505.4 in the galactocentric Cartesian frame, color coded according to the time. The white dot represents the current position of the star. The sight More Credit: Cordoni et al Theories about how the Milky Way formed will be rewritten following discoveries …

[ad_1] IMAGE: The unstable terrain that poses a landslide threat lies between the Cascade Glacier and the Barry Arm Glacier, which has steadily retreated over the past decade. This satellite image shows … view More Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the US Geological …

[ad_1] IMAGE: This graph shows how the amount of water in Mars’ atmosphere varies with the season. During the global and regional dust storms, which occur during the southern spring and … sight More Credits: University of Arizona / Shane Stone / NASA Goddard / Dan Gallagher Scientists using an …

[ad_1] IMAGE: Cartoon depicting a watch looking for a view of dark matter More Credit: Hanacek / NIST JILA researchers used a state-of-the-art atomic clock to narrow the search for elusive dark matter, an example of how continuous improvements in watches have value beyond timekeeping. Older atomic clocks operating at …

[ad_1] IMAGE: This artist’s conception of the icy moon of Jupiter Europa shows a hypothesized cryo-volcanic eruption, in which brackish water from inside the frozen shell explodes into space. A new model of this … view More Credit: Image credit: Justice Blaine Wainwright On Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, powerful eruptions …

[ad_1] IMAGE: An artist’s conception of HD 209458 b, an exoplanet whose atmosphere is torn away at more than 35,000 km / hour by the radiation of its nearby parent star. This hot view More Credits: NASA / European Space Agency / Alfred Vidal-Madjar (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS) Fast …

[ad_1] IMAGE: The new Outrigger telescope at the Green Bank Observatory will work in conjunction with Canada’s existing Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, telescope, located halfway across the continent … view More Credit: CHIME In an effort to unravel the mysteries of Fast Radio Bursts, a new telescope will …