Eta Aquarid meteor shower of 2022 thrills stargazers in these stunning photos – Space.com
Home News Skywatching An Eta Aquarid meteor streaks across the sky. (Image credit: David Kingham/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Meteor streaks delighted skywatchers this weekend as the Earth passed through the dust trail of Halley's Comet in an annual meteor shower display.The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, which is visible in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres in…
Lunar Soil Can Be Used To Generate Oxygen and Fuel for Moon Astronauts –...
An artist’s impression of what a lunar base could look like. Scientists exploring whether lunar resources can be used to facilitate human exploration on the moon or beyond have reported that lunar soil contains active compounds that can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuels. Credit: ESA – P. CarrilSoil on the moon contains active…
Hear the Weird Sounds of a Black Hole Singing – The New York Times
Space & Cosmos|Hear the Weird Sounds of a Black Hole Singinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/science/space/astronomy-black-hole-sound.htmlOut ThereAs part of an effort to “sonify” the cosmos, researchers have converted the pressure waves from a black hole into an audible … something.VideoSound waves of the Perseus galaxy cluster were resynthesized after boosting their frequency quadrillions of times, scaling them 57 to 58…
‘Space jellyfish’ over Georgia explained – Livescience.com
Home News SPACE JELLYFISHFrom today’s SpaceX launch. Beautiful pic.twitter.com/98mzIGHDOmMay 6, 2022See moreIn the wee morning hours of Thursday(May 5), a camera in Waycross, Georgia witnessed a mysterious object streaking through the sky. Bright, fast and trailed by a glowing oblong aura, the object looked a bit like a space jellyfish, as Chris Combs, a professor…
Space ‘warps astronauts brains’ leaving ‘concerning’ changes even when they’re back on Earth, study...
WARPED WORLD 15:25 ET, May 6 2022Updated: 15:26 ET, May 6 2022ASTRONAUTS' brains are changing as a byproduct of the zero gravity conditions. Side effects of space travel are under close watch as governments and private industry ramp up efforts to take people off-world. 4Astronaut Nick Hague is carried by a Nasa team after returning…
Humanity will go to Mars ‘in this decade,’ SpaceX president predicts – Space.com
Home News Spaceflight SpaceX artist's concept of a city on Mars. (Image credit: SpaceX) A crewed Mars mission could happen sooner than you think.Astronauts will likely make it to the Red Planet's surface before the end of the 2020s, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC's Shepard Smith recently."I think it will…
Trilobites are long gone, but rare fossil reveals how they mated – Livescience.com
Home News An illustration of two trilobites (Olenoides serratus) mating on the seafloor during the Cambrian period, with the male (top) hugging the female below. (Image credit: Holly Sullivan, https://www.sulscientific.com/)Trilobites may not look like cuddly creatures, but come mating time, one species of these now-extinct arthropods — which looked like giant, swimming potato bugs wearing…
A Total Lunar Eclipse is Coming With a Flower Blood Moon – How to...
Japanese Lantern Effect; Larry Johnson, CC license Night sky fans, on May 15-16 look up to see the blood-red spectacle that is a total lunar eclipse. A lunar eclipse occurs when the full moon slips into the Earth’s shadow—and those watching from South America and the eastern side of North America are in for quite…
Astronauts home in on International Space Station air leak – CNN
(CNN)Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) have successfully narrowed down the source of a small air leak that had been growing in size. Kenny Todd, deputy manager of the space statio…
If It Wasn’t for Jupiter, Venus Might Be Habitable Today – SciTechDaily
Composite of images taken by Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki of Venus. Credit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic Study shows the destabilizing effect of the giant gas planet. Venus might not be a sweltering, waterless hellscape today, if Jupiter hadn’t altered its orbit around the sun, according to new UC Riverside research. Jupiter has…
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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…
