U.S. astronaut Nichole “Vapor” Ayers captured a spectacular view of a phenomenon known as a “sprite” blazing to life above an intense thunderstorm — and she did this while orbiting
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On October 7, 2014, Japan launched the Himawari 8 satellite, followed by Himawari 9 on November 2, 2016. While these satellites primarily serve to monitor Earth’s weather and phenomena such
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has canceled a competition between Boeing and Northrop Grumman to build a new class of jam-resistant communications satellites, abandoning a traditional procurement approach in
View larger. | Artist’s illustration of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The Mars orbiter is using a new rolling maneuver – turning it essentially upside down – to help it
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS — ESA / Las Cumbres Observatory Astronomers from ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC), part of the Agency’s Planetary Defence Office, made these observations of the newly
A comparison of state-of-the-art geometric distances that serve to anchor the distance scale and their current relative uncertainties. Additional candidate (≲1 Mpc) eclipsing binary hosts to target in future are
Earth’s surface is shown as it might have looked some 3.8 billion years ago, perhaps when life was just beginning, in this artist’s rendering. Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lizbeth B. De La Torre
The color shows the product of the radiation flux at a wavelength of 3 µm and the square of the distance for the case of a prograde fall of the
Site locations and hypothesized pan-Arctic glaciation. ODP Site 910 and MD99-2277 (red dots) are located in the Eurasian sector of the Arctic Ocean and central Nordic Seas, respectively. Site 910
Distance vs. Stellar Mass for over 15,000 known galaxies out to 50 Mpc (Ohlson et al. 2024). Galaxies are colorcoded by their Hubble “T” Type, with early type galaxies T
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