In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located more than 50 million light-years from Earth. Visible in this galaxy image is a bright blue ring that hosts hot,…
Category: 2. Space
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The Martian Night Sky Was Seen Turning Green in a Stunning First : ScienceAlert
An aurora gently glowing in wavelengths visible to the human eye has been captured on Mars for the first time – and a robot was the only one to see it live.
On 18 March 2024, as the night sky over Jezero Crater turned a faint, luminous…
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Nuclear battery startup Zeno Power raises $50 million to expand in space and at sea
WASHINGTON — Zeno Power, a venture-backed startup developing nuclear batteries for extreme environments, said May 14 it raised $50 million in Series B funding to accelerate its work in space and underwater energy systems.
The…
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Weather Report from Saturn’s Moon Titan: Partly Cloudy with Occasional Methane Showers
Using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope, asrtonomers found evidence of cloud convection in the northern hemisphere of Titan. Most of Titan’s lakes and seas are located in that hemisphere, and are…
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Dark matter formed when fast particles slowed down and got heavy, new theory says
A study by Dartmouth researchers proposes a new theory about the origin of dark matter, the mysterious and invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure.
The researchers report in Physical Review Letters that dark…
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