A deadly asteroid A new Phys.org report released on February 25 could have been the plot of 2021's "Don't Look Up," a Netflix original about a potentially deadly asteroid that threatens to strike Earth. However, the good news is it was simply a close call. According to the website, the first observations of an asteroid called...
Arp 282. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL/DECam, CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, SDSS, J. Schmidt) The recurring interaction between two galaxies 320 million light-years away has been recorded in a spectacular Hubble picture. They are collectively named Arp 282 in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. They feature a large barred spiral galaxy called NGC 169, approximately 140,000 light-years across, and a considerably...
lookup, it's okay A recent Phys.org report might have been the story of 2021's "Don't Look Up," the Netflix series about an asteroid that threatens to strike Earth. Fortunately, it was merely a close call. The website's initial observations of an asteroid named 2022 AE1 presented a possible impact with Earth on July of 2023. However, the risk...
The Gaia spacecraft's view of the Milky Way galaxy, with purple marking the remains of the Pontus galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) The massive appetite of a Galaxy The Milky Way galaxy devoured more galaxies in its early days than astronomers assumed. The Gaia spacecraft discovered the remains of an ancient cosmic collision in...
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Keel, Dark Energy Survey, Department of Energy, Fermilab, Dark Energy Survey Camera, (DECam), Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, NoirLab/National Science Foundation/AURA, Sloan Digital Sky Survey; Acknowledgment: J. Schmidt The Swirling Galactic Trio The mass of dust and brilliant swirls of stars in this picture are the far-off galaxy merger IC 2431, which...
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA's Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible-light pictures of the surface of Venus from space Surrounded in thick clouds, Venus' surface is usually hidden from view. However, in two current flybys of the Earth, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the whole nightside in wavelengths...
The dense sponge grounds discovered on the northerly Langseth Ridge seamount structure represent an astonishingly rich ecosystem, demonstrating the ability of sponges and associated microorganisms to exploit a variety of refractory food sources including fossil seep detritus. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / PS101 AWI OFOS system Giant sponge gardens Little food gets to the depths below the perpetually...
QESOCAS, Project Number: EXL01 - Atomic Clock The International Clock and Oscillator Networking (ICON) project have been endowed ₤ 1.5 million in financing from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to unite world-leading portable optical clocks and world-leading optical link space infrastructure to inspect the limits of precision time transfer. The project...
A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA A retired microscope and samples from research studies on colloids and cellular signaling are among the load returning from the International Space Station aboard the 24th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission. The Dragon craft, which reached the station on December 22, 2021,...
Bloomington Online School “is such a good fit for him,” Ms. Levin said. Credit...Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times In Bloomington, Minnesota, sixth-grader Rory Levin used to detest going to school. His medical condition frequently causes him to feel uneasy around other students. The special education programs he took didn't do anything to reduce...
