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Back to Article List The infrared space telescope spotted a strange feature in the dusty disk around this young star, possibly from a hundred-year-old collision. An image of the cat's tail found in the Beta Pictoris system. The black shadow seen in the middle...
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, one of the fastest changing glaciers in the world.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn more.The Columbia Glacier, visible just above...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has gone incommunicado.Ingenuity's handlers lost contact with the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) chopper on Thursday (Jan. 18), toward the end of its 72nd flight on Mars. "Data Ingenuity sent to the Perseverance rover (which acts as a...
Back to Article List We don’t yet have a solid understanding of all that is observed in the cosmos, and this leads to some intriguing notions. The Milky Way (green) lies in an area with little matter. The galaxies in the bubble move in the direction of the...
All stars form in giant molecular clouds of hydrogen. But some stars are extraordinarily massive; the most massive one we know of is about 200 times more massive than the Sun. How do these stars gain so much mass? Part of the answer is that they form in...
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The end has apparently come for the troubled Peregrine moon lander.Astrobotic lost contact with Peregrine at around 3:50 p.m. EST (2050 GMT) on Thursday afternoon (Jan. 18), the Pittsburgh-based company announced via X (formerly known as Twitter)."While this...
A combination of two images taken during a total solar eclipse in 2009 on the board of the ship in neighborhood of Iwo Jima Island. Credit: Marta and Michal Zolnowski On Monday, April 8, the sky’s most dramatic event occurs as the path of a total solar eclipse...
Universe Today recently explored the importance of studying impact craters and what they can teach us about finding life beyond Earth. Impact craters are considered one of the many surface processes—others include volcanism, weathering, erosion, and plate...
Science & Exploration 18/01/2024 170 views 1 likes Windswept piles of dust, or layers of ice? ESA’s Mars Express has revisited one of Mars’s most mysterious features to clarify its composition. Its findings suggest layers of water ice stretching several...