by rmil2k | Mar 22, 2024 | News
Spaceflight can be a real headache — literally. Since the days of the Apollo program, astronauts have reported experiencing head pain during their stint in microgravity. And many of them had never dealt with recurrent headaches on Earth. It seems that something...
by rmil2k | Mar 22, 2024 | News
heic2405 — Science Release 21 March 2024 It takes two to tango, but in the case of brown dwarfs that were once paired as binary systems, that relationship doesn’t last for very long, according to a recent survey using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Brown dwarfs...
by rmil2k | Mar 22, 2024 | News
During a penumbral lunar eclipse, the Moon may look slightly darker or even brownish, but no dramatic changes occur. Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello (Flickr) Friday, March 22Spring’s premier globular cluster, M3, is on display in the constellation Canes Venatici this...
by rmil2k | Mar 22, 2024 | News
You can tell a lot about a planetary body just by looking at its surface, especially if it has craters. Take Europa, for example. It has a fairly young surface—somewhere between 50 and 100 million years old. That’s practically “new” when you compare it to the age of...
by rmil2k | Mar 21, 2024 | News
Air pollution is the largest environmental health risk in Europe and significantly impacts the health of the European population, particularly in urban areas.Following on from the Sentinel-5P satellite – the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our...