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Tracing Evolution From Embryo to Baby Star
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) took a census of stellar eggs in the constellation Taurus and revealed their evolution state.
This census helps researchers understand how and when a stellar embryo…
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A New Look at Mars’ Eerie, Ultraviolet Nighttime Glow
Every night on Mars, when the sun sets and temperatures fall to minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit and below, an eerie phenomenon spreads across much of the planet’s sky: a soft glow created by chemical reactions occurring tens of miles above the…
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Global Magnetic Field of the Solar Corona Measured for the First Time
An international team of solar physicists, including academics from Northumbria University, in Newcastle upon Tyne, has recently measured the global magnetic field of the outer most layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, the solar corona, for the first…
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NASA Data Helps Uncover Our Solar System’s Shape
Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system using a model developed with data from NASA missions.
All the planets of our solar system are encased in a magnetic bubble, carved out in space by…
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Ammonia Sparks Unexpected, Exotic Lightning on Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft – orbiting and closely observing the planet Jupiter – has unexpectedly discovered lightning in the planet’s upper atmosphere, according to a multi-institutional study led by the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),…
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Plate Tectonics Goes Global
Today, the entire globe is broken up into tectonic plates that are shifting past each other, causing the continents to drift slowly but steadily. But this has not always been the case.
The earliest evidence for plate tectonic features which could…
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Lava Tubes on Mars and Moon Wide Enough to Host Planetary Bases
The international journal Earth-Science Reviews published a paper offering an overview of the lava tubes (pyroducts) on Earth, eventually providing an estimate of the (greater) size of their lunar and Martian counterparts.
This study involved…
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Optical Seismometer Survives “Hellish” Summit of Caribbean Volcano
The heights of La Soufrière de Guadeloupe volcano can be hellish, sweltering at more than 48 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit) and swathed in billows of acidic gas.
Researchers would like to monitor gas and steam eruptions at its summit,…
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Geologists Publish New Findings on Carbonate Melts in Earth’s Mantle
Geologists from Florida State University’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science have discovered how carbon-rich molten rock in the Earth’s upper mantle might affect the movement of seismic waves.
The new research was coauthored…
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