Credit: PixabayOne of my most memorable experiences was back in the 90s when I was in the US Air Force. In November 1998, I found myself deployed to Kuwait, where I witnessed a spectacular meteor storm as the Leonids reached their peak on the morning of November 17th. The meteors came quickly and intensely,...
Brilliant red auroras seen over China in May 2024. (Image credit: Getty Images)If you want to see the northern lights from outside the Arctic Circle, be ready to drive to a dark place during the first week of June.The strongest geomagnetic storm in over twenty years occurred between May 10 and May 12, lighting...
The composite image features X-rays illuminated in purple overlaying the nebula structure and stars captured by Hubble.Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI/HST; Infrared: NASA/JPL/CalTech/SST; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt, N. Wolk, K. ArcandAn enigmatic nebula named Tarantula in the neighboring galaxy has been a cosmic theater of stellar births and...
A rendering of the NGC 2264 as captured by telescopes from NASA and the National Science Foundation. (X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and B.A. Wolpa (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA); Infrared: NASA/NSF/IPAC/CalTech/Univ. of Massachusetts; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & J.Major)Thousands of light-years from Earth, a cluster of stars in the NGC 2264 cluster is embracing...
JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata participating in a ham radio session. Credit: NASA.Being a microgravity laboratory in orbit, the International Space Station accommodates experiments across diverse scientific domains. Additionally, it serves as a platform for educational initiatives designed to foster global interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) among young individuals. The objective of...
A sizable gray celestial body featuring prominent craters on its exterior and areas of brown material. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU)Psyche asteroid's staggering worth. The asteroid's extraordinary "value" might indicate potential contributions to the emerging space mining sector.You've likely heard about the estimated value of the asteroid 16 Psyche, the focus of NASA's upcoming Psyche...
Galaxy NGC 547. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Blakeslee (NOIRLab - (AZ)), and W. Sparks (SETI Institute); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).In the constellation Cetus, located about 250 million light-years from Earth, sits the elliptical galaxy NGC 547. This galaxy is the subject of a stunning image the NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured....
Earth as seen by the Danuri orbiter. Credit: KARI.South Korea's first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent out black-and-white pictures of the Moon's surface and Earth, the national space center claimed Tuesday.Danuri-- a portmanteau of the Korean words for "Moon" and "enjoy"-- was released on a SpaceX rocket from the USA in August 2022 and went...
Two images of a solar active region (NOAA AR 2109) taken by SDO/AIA show extreme-ultraviolet light produced by million-degree-hot coronal gas (top images) on the day before the region flared (left) and the day before it stayed quiet and did not flare (right). The changes in brightness (bottom images) at these two times show...
Alexandr Gnezdilov Light Painting/Moment/GettyThe wonderful step taken by physicistsPhysicists have just taken an wonderful step regarding quantum devices that seems like something out of science fiction.For the first time, isolated sets of particles acting like unusual states of matter known as time crystals have been connected into a single, advancing system that could...
