Starship Mk 1 Blows its Top During Testing – Universe Today
SpaceX has been on a roll lately. With the completion of tethered and untethered flight tests with the Starship Hopper, SpaceX founder Elon Musk unveiled the newly-completed Starship Mk 1 prototype and announced that orbital test flights would commence in a few months. Meanwhile, the Starlink constellation got started with the launch of its first…
Space Could Be Littered With Eerie Transparent Stars Made Entirely of Bosons – ScienceAlert
L-r: A non-rotating black hole; a rotating black hole; a boson star as they'd appear to the EHT. (Olivares et al., MNRAS, 2020) Last year, the astronomical community achieved an absolute wonder. For the very first time, the world collectively laid eyes on an actual image of the shadow of a black hole. It was…
Telescope Detects Fast Radio Burst Hitting Earth Every 16 Days – Gizmodo
Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescopeA telescope in Canada has found a source of mysterious fast radio bursts that repeat every 16 days, according to a new paper. It’s the first regularly repeating fast radio burst known to science.Fast radio bursts (FRB) are bright radio blips that originate from deep space. After the initial fast…
Astronaut Jessica Meir celebrates Hanukkah from, where else, space – CNN
(CNN)NASA astronaut Jessica Meir celebrated the first day of Hanukkah in a place with a spectacular view -- space. Meir posted a picture Sunday on Twitter of her feet in blue and neon-colored Hanukkah socks, with a Menorah and a Star of David, from the Inte…
Explosion at SpaceX South Texas facility caught on camera – WGHP FOX 8 Greensboro
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How to watch the ‘strawberry moon’ eclipse from anywhere Friday – CNET
A brilliant full moon rises at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2017. NASA/Kim Shiflett A full "strawberry moon" arrives on Friday, and it will come with an understated partial eclipse for some parts of the world. While the moon will be at its absolute fullest on Friday around noon PT, you'll have several opportunities…
Showtime for Photosynthesis – Nature Captured in Breakthrough “Molecular Movie” – SciTechDaily
Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory One of nature’s most important chemical reactions is now being captured in a breakthrough “molecular movie.” Using a unique combination of nanoscale imaging and chemical analysis, an international team of researchers has revealed a key step in the molecular mechanism behind the water splitting reaction of photosynthesis, a finding…
Scientists Study Sea Creature Which Makes a Home of Body Fluid – VOA Learning...
Some very small, deep sea creatures are known as the master builders of the sea. They can build complex homes that provide protection and capture food. These structures are made from a fluid that comes out of their heads. When the structures get used up, the creatures — called giant larvaceans — build a new…
Climate change: what Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’ means for the planet – Financial Times
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Venus map with water: stunning terraforming image shows alternative to Mars – Inverse
What would Venus look like if it had a similar amount of surface water to Earth? A viral map highlights how terraforming Venus could result in an impressively Earth-like planet.The map was shared in a Reddit post by a user called "Dragonite-2" on the "MapPorn" subreddit on August 21. It visualizes one of the boldest…
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See the First Eerie NASA Images of DART’s Asteroid Crash Site – CNET
On Monday, the world watched as a little NASA spacecraft called DART met its explosive end. This box, slightly bigger than an oven and winged with solar panels, had been fated to die since it left Earth in November. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test's mission was simple: Crash into a large asteroid so scientists can see whether…
Uncovering Hidden Patterns: AI Reduces a 100,000-Equation Quantum Physics Problem to Only Four Equations...
Abstract quantum physics illustration.Scientists trained a machine learning tool to capture the physics of electrons moving on a lattice using far fewer equations than would typically be required, all without sacrificing accuracy.A daunting quantum problem that until now required 100,000 equations has been compressed into a bite-size task of as few as four equations by…
Superhot blob of gas discovered orbiting Milky Way’s black hole at ‘mind-blowing’ velocity –...
Home News The orbit of the newly discovered rapid hot spot around Sagittarius A* superimposed on top of the first image of the supermassive black hole captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration. (Image credit: EHT Collaboration, ESO/L. Calçada (Acknowledgment: M. Wielgus)) (opens in new tab)Astronomers have detected a blob of hot gas whizzing…
