Science Images of the Week
With the sun setting over New York on July 2, 2014, the One World Trade Center building in Manhattan is struck by lightning during a summer storm. (REUTERS) This photo, taken from the International...
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NASA celebrated the 15th anniversary of its Chandra X-ray Observatory on July 23, 2014, by releasing some newly processed images. This is G292.0+1.8 the remnants of supernova, a star that has exploded....
View ArticleRhythmic Light Pulses Help Astronomers Accurately Measure Medium Sized Black...
Galaxy Messier 82 – The intermediate-mass black hole M82 X-1 is the brightest object in the inset, at approximately 2 o’clock near the galaxy’s center. (NASA/Feng et al) Astronomers have calculated...
View ArticleScience Images of the Month – January, 2015
NASA released this Hubble Space Telescope image of the Eagle Nebula’s “Pillars of Creation” on January 6. After comparing photos taken in 1996 and 2014, astronomers noticed that a narrow jet-like...
View ArticleThe Best Science Images – April 2015
The Calbuco volcano, near Puerto Varas, Chile, recently erupted for the first time in more than 42 years. Here’s a spectacular photo of the volcano erupting the night of 4/23/15. (AP) This photo taken...
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“There’s no place like home!” A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. (NASA) A team...
View ArticleUniverse Dying?; Seals Use Voice Recognition; Bacteria Helps Smokers Quit
Astronomers Say our Universe is Dying Is our universe slowly dying? An international group of astronomers, who studied more than 200,000 galaxies and precisely measured the energy produced within a...
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ESA Astronaut Tim Peake shared this image he took on March 21, 2016, from the International Space Station on Facebook. He commented: “Every so often our orbit lets us enjoy a longer sunrise and sunset...
View ArticleOlive Oil Key to a Healthy Heart? – Black Holes – Liquid H2O on Mars?
Container of olive oil (Lemone via Wikimedia Commons) Diet Rich in Olive Oil Can Help Keep Heart Healthy To keep heart healthy doctors recommend that you keep an eye on your cholesterol levels. But...
View ArticleFirst Extragalactic Planets Found
No doubt you’ve heard about extrasolar or exoplanets; planets that were discovered orbiting a star outside of our own solar system. Nearly 3,000 of these planets have been confirmed so far, with many...
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