Planes on the Novo runway Left to right: Twin Otter; IL-76TD, Basler BT-67 (remanufactured and modified Douglas C-47 Skytrain / Douglas DC-3) Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is back in
Planes on the Novo runway Left to right: Twin Otter; IL-76TD, Basler BT-67 (remanufactured and modified Douglas C-47 Skytrain / Douglas DC-3) Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is back in
Composite images of PDS 70 in pseudo color. The left panel shows previous ALMA observations at 0.87 mm, and the right panel shows new ALMA observations at 3 mm. The
Mirror Bacteria — Grok via Astrobiology.com Editor’s note: As we study how Earth life is put together it is helpful to understand alternate ways that chemistry could combine to form
The orbits of the fourteen currently known dark comets, Jupiter, and the Earth. One orbital period is shown for each object starting on the vernal equinox in 2023 March, and
Illustration of the Kepler-51 system and its inner three planets, which have unusually low density. New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope suggest that at least one more planet
Photograph of Magnificent bird-of-paradise specimen CREDIT Image_1: inset photograph of Magnificent bird-of-paradise: Wikipedia licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en Image_1: photograph of Magnificent bird-of-paradise specimen: David Ocampo, personal permission — PLOS Biology Editor’s note: Having
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — ESA Cometary comae are a mixture of gas and ice-covered dust. Processing on the surface and in the coma change the composition of ice on dust grains
Maximal (red) and minimal (blue) atmospheric heating factor vs instellation, for three values of the heat redistribution parameter: f = 0.2 (solid), 0.5 (dashed), and 1 (dotted). The locations of
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero