AvatarJacqueline LichtenbergFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo9 hours agoThree-year study of young stars with NASA's Hubble enters new chapterphys.org - Ann Jenkins and Ray VillardIn the largest and one of the most ambitious Hubble Space Telescope programs ever executed, a team of scientists and engineers collected information …
AvatarJacqueline LichtenbergFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo15 hours agoNASA's attempt to bring home part of Mars is unprecedented: The mission's problems are notphys.org - Corinne PurtillMassive cost overruns. Key deadlines slipping out of reach. Problems of unprecedented complexity, and a generation's worth of scientific progress …
AvatarJacqueline LichtenbergFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day ago'Vampire' neutron star blasts are related to jets traveling at near-light speedsspace.com - By Robert Lea"This will help us understand how the jets are launched from all objects, even the supermassive black holes that reside at the centers of galaxies." A …
AvatarJacqueline LichtenbergFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoEruption in Iceland Going Strong After Almost Two Weeksdiscovermagazine.com - Erik KlemettiThe eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula had been holding to a pattern of inflation and then a brief eruption. The current activity bucks that with …
AvatarJacqueline LichtenbergFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoA Neutron Star’s Jet Speeds Have Been Measured For The First Timeiflscience.comAstronomers have found a way to measure the jets produced by an accreting neutron star. It is hoped that once a large sample of such measurements …
AvatarJacqueline LichtenbergFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoThe mystery of fullerenes in space explainedphys.org - Instituto de Astrofísica de CanariasA study from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) which combines laboratory chemistry with astrophysics, has shown for the first time that …
AvatarJacqueline LichtenbergFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoA star is dead: Scientists watch supernova in real time - studyjpost.com - By AARON REICHScientists at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science got lucky and managed to spot a star in a nearby galaxy go supernova, able to make a portrait of …
AvatarJacqueline LichtenbergFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoOverlooked Apollo data from the 1970s reveals huge record of 'hidden' moonquakesspace.com - By Harry BakerA reanalysis of 50-year-old Apollo mission data long abandoned by NASA has revealed 22,000 previously unrecognized moonquakes, almost tripling the …
AvatarJacqueline LichtenbergAvatarAvatar1 day agoMexican Government Acquires Rare Centuries-Old Aztec ManuscriptsSmithsonian Magazine - Julia BinswangerThe Mexican government has acquired three illustrated Aztec codices from the late 16th to early 17th centuries that had been passed down within one …
AvatarJacqueline LichtenbergAvatarAvatarMar 21NASA needs your smartphone during April’s solar eclipseverified_publisherPopular Science - Andrew PaulThe free SunSketcher app will use your phone’s camera to record the event and help study the sun’s ‘oblateness.’ Listening for crickets isn’t the only way you can help NASA conduct research during the total solar eclipse passing across much of North America on April 8—you can also lend your …
AvatarJacqueline LichtenbergFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo2 days agoThames Tideway Tunnel super sewer completedbbc.co.uk - By Jonah FisherAfter eight years in the making, London's £5bn super sewer has been completed. Known officially as the Thames Tideway Tunnel, it has been designed to reduce the amount of raw sewage that flows into the river. The 16 mile (25km) long pipe will divert 34 of the most polluting sewage outflows (CSO's) …
AvatarJacqueline LichtenbergFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo2 days agoResearchers realize electrochemical conversion of methane and O₂ to HCOOH at room temperaturephys.org - Chinese Academy of SciencesDirect conversion of CH4 and O2 to value-added chemicals is important for natural gas industries. However, challenges remain due to the difficulty of …