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NASA Satellite’s Lone View of Betelgeuse Reveals More Strange Behavior
Portal origin URL: NASA Satellite’s Lone View of Betelgeuse Reveals More Strange BehaviorPortal origin nid: 463536Published: Thursday, August 13, 2020 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: For several weeks in summer...
Watch: Joseph Gordon-Levitt discusses fatherhood on 'The Tonight Show'
"Project Power" star Joseph Gordon-Levitt discussed fatherhood on "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon."
Video: ESA's meteor camera captures the Perseid showers
The Perseids meteor shower is one of the most spectacular annual meteor showers. Made of debris from comet Swift-Tuttle they have been observed by sky-watchers for thousands of years and...
Satellite record gives unprecedented view of Antarctic ice shelf melt pattern over 25 years
A science team led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has created a detailed history of mass loss from Antarctica's floating ice shelves.
Physicists calculate when the last supernova ever will happen
The end of the universe as we know it will not come with a bang. Most stars will slowly fizzle as their temperatures fade to zero.
Salute to the Sun
Image: After four months of darkness, the Sun finally rises on 11 August at Concordia research station in Antarctica. The crew are understandably reverent.ESA-sponsored medical doctor Stijn Thoolen (left) and engineer Wenceslas Marie-Sainte...
On This Day, Aug. 13: Capt. Frank Hawkes sets air speed record
On Aug. 13, 1930, Capt. Frank Hawkes set an air speed record by flying from Los Angeles to New York in 12 hours, 25 minutes.
How stars form in the smallest galaxies
The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world's astronomers. An international research team...
Perovskite and organic solar cells rocketed into space
Researchers have sent perovskite and organic solar cells on a rocket into space. The solar cells withstood the extreme conditions in space, producing power from direct sunlight and reflective light...
PSG shocks Atalanta in final minutes to reach Champions League semifinals
Paris Saint-Germain scored a pair of late goals to earn a shocking 2-1 win over Atalanta on Wednesday at the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, and advance to the...
New study shows how the smallest galaxies produce stars
Astronomers finally have an explanation for how some of the cosmos' smallest galaxies make new stars.
Coronavirus has burst NBA bubble of most recognizable L.A. superfan
The NBA playoffs will take place this year in the Orlando, Fla., bubble without the presence of one of the league's most devoted fans, James Goldstein.
NASA finds hurricane Elida's eye covered
NASA's Aqua satellite obtained visible imagery of Hurricane Elida in the Eastern Pacific as it continued to weaken. Imagery revealed that Elida's eye had become covered as the storm embarks...
Watch: Haley Lu Richardson, Barbie Ferreira take road trip in 'Unpregnant' trailer
"Unpregnant," a new film starring Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira, will premiere Sept. 10 on HBO Max.
Look: Netflix shares first photos from 'The Babysitter' sequel
"The Babysitter: Killer Queen," starring Judah Lewis, Emily Alyn Lind, Robbie Amell and Bella Thorne, is coming to Netflix in September.
How spotting right whales from space could help save them
The key to saving endangered North Atlantic right whales could come from space, says a Nova Scotia researcher who's developing technology that would scan satellite imagery and relay the whereabouts of the elusive...
Claims of 'Ocean' inside Ceres May Not Hold Water
Final results from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft suggest a brine reservoir exists within the dwarf planet, but some experts remain unconvinced -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Extremely young galaxy is Milky Way look-alike
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed an extremely distant and therefore very young galaxy that looks surprisingly like our Milky Way. The galaxy is so far...
Astronomers discover most-distant Milky Way-like galaxy ever observed
Astronomers have discovered a Milky Way lookalike in the distant universe, 12 billion light-years from Earth. It's the most distant Milky Way-like galaxy ever discovered.
Watch: Martial artist uses nunchucks to light 21 candles in one minute
A Chinese martial artist broke a Guinness World Record when he managed to use his nunchucks to light 21 matches in one minute.
'Black dwarf supernova': Physicist calculates when the last supernova ever will happen
New theoretical research finds that many white dwarfs may explode in supernova in the distant far future, long after everything else in the universe has died and gone quiet.
Broken cable damages giant radio telescope in Puerto Rico
A broken cable caused severe damage at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, causing a suspension of operations for one of the world's largest single-dish radio telescopes, officials said Tuesday.
ALMA sees most distant Milky Way look-alike
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, have revealed an extremely distant and therefore very young galaxy that looks...
Perseid showers captured by ESA’s meteor camera
The LIC1 camera of the Canary Long-Baseline Observatory (CILBO) on Tenerife captured the peak of the 2020 Perseid meteor shower in mid-August, detecting dozens of meteors in a single night....
Blackpink, Selena Gomez to release single Aug. 28
K-pop stars Blackpink confirmed their new song will feature singer and actress Selena Gomez.
NASA’s Planet Hunter Completes Its Primary Mission
Portal origin URL: NASA’s Planet Hunter Completes Its Primary MissionPortal origin nid: 463492Published: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA's TESS has completed its primary mission, imaging...
New insights into star formation in the smallest galaxies
The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world's astronomers. Now, an international research...
Astronomers investigate an ultraluminous X-ray source in NGC 5055
Using the Chandra and XMM-Newton spacecraft, astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center in Warsaw, Poland, have investigated an ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in the galaxy NGC 5055. The study,...