Watching the Violent Death of a Rare, Extreme Supergiant Star
By tracing molecular emissions in the outflows around the red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris, astronomers have obtained the first detailed map of the star’s…
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Galactic Belly Flop: Mysterious “Blue Blobs” Reveal a New Kind of Star System
The stellar structures are thought to be created when galaxies collide with hot gas in a process that could be likened to doing a belly…
The James Webb Space Telescope: Prepare for a New Way To See the Universe
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science – and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers hoped…
Startling Consequences of Global Warming: Oceans Are Losing Their Memory
Using future projections from the latest generation of Earth System Models, a recent study published in Science Advances found that most of the world’s ocean…
What Is Dead Pool? It Sounds Ominous. And It Is.
Journalists reporting on the status and future of the Colorado River are increasingly using the phrase “dead pool.” It sounds ominous. And it is. Dead…
Weird Link Between Parkinson’s Gene and Vocal Issues Could Lead to Earlier Diagnosis
Neuroscientists found that higher levels of the alpha-synuclein protein in the brain can lead to changes in vocal production. Parkinson’s disease is likely best known…
Scientists Are Blasting Out Earth’s Location With the Hope of Reaching Aliens – Stephen Hawking Warned They Might Destroy Humanity
If a person is lost in the wilderness, they have two options. They can search for civilization, or they could make themselves easy to spot…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft To Visit Another Near-Earth Asteroid, Apophis
The extended mission, dubbed OSIRIS-APEX, will study the near-Earth asteroid Apophis, which will have a close encounter with Earth in 2029. On September 24, 2023,…
Variations in Climate Don’t Drive Evolutionary Change As Much as Previously Thought
Combining climate change records over the last 3.5 million years with fossil evidence of mammals in Africa revealed that times of erratic climate change are…
Space Missions To Watch: A Lunar Return, a Jupiter Moon, and the Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built
Space travel is all about momentum. Rockets turn their fuel into momentum that carries people, satellites, and science itself forward into space. 2021 was a…
Technology Is Revolutionizing How Intelligence Is Gathered and Analyzed – Opening a Window Onto Russian Military Activity Around Ukraine
The U.S. has been warning for weeks about the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine, and threatening retaliation if it does. Just eight years after Russia’s…
Power On! Webb Space Telescope Turns On Instruments
Now begins the process of aligning all 18 mirror segments so that they work together as one. Since the arrival of NASA’s James Webb Space…
Unprecedented Number of Globular Clusters Discovered in Nearby Galaxy
New treasure trove of globular clusters holds clues about galaxy evolution. Using observations of the nearby elliptical galaxy Centaurus A, a team of astronomers led…
Researchers Discover Respiratory Tract Bacterial Extracts Could Prevent COVID-19
Researchers from the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson found that the bacterial lysate OM-85 blocked SARS-CoV-2 infection by decreasing the ability of the coronavirus…
Astronomers Detect First Signature of Magnetic Field on a Planet Outside of Our Solar System
Researchers have identified the first signature of a magnetic field surrounding a planet outside of our solar system. Earth’s magnetic field acts as a shield…
How To See Comet Leonard (Before It’s Gone Forever) – According to the Researcher Who Discovered It
The brightest comet of the year, named “Leonard” after the University of Arizona researcher who discovered it, is paying one last visit to Earth’s neighborhood…
Webb – The Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built – Will Look Back in Time to the Dark Ages of the Universe
Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the “telescope that ate astronomy.” It is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex…
Near-Earth Asteroid Kamo’oalewa Might Be a Lost Fragment of the Moon
A team of University of Arizona-led researchers thinks that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa might actually be a miniature moon. A near-Earth asteroid named Kamo`oalewa could be…
