This illustration reveals the accumulation disk, corona (pale, cone-shaped swirls over the disk), and also supermassive great void of energetic galaxy 1ES 1927 +654 before its recent flare-up. Credit: NASA/Sonoma State College, Aurore Simonnet. Something weird is taking place in the galaxy referred to as 1ES 1927 +654: In late 2017, and for reasons that...
The Earth illustration. Credit:NASA. Earth's inside Structure received new attention from scientists. A new study led by a College of Cambridge is the first to take a detailed picture of an unusual pocket of rock at the border layer with the Planet's core, some 3 thousand kilometers under the surface, giving new hope of understanding...
Mathematicians would like to know if equations concerning fluid circulation can break down or "explode" in certain circumstances. Credit: Quanta Magazine. For more than 250 years, mathematicians have been attempting to "blow up" a few of one of the most important formulas in physics. Those explain exactly how liquids circulate. If they are successful, they...
Man and a boy walk across the dried up bed of river Yamuna following hot weather in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 2, 2022. Credit: AP Photo. Because of Global Heating earth is slipping closer to the warming limit international agreements are striving to prevent. With close to a 50% possibility that The planet will...
All 5 nucleobases of RNA and DNA have been found in meteorites for the first time. These chemicals are necessary ingredients for life on Earth and numerous purines and also two pyrimidines-- thymine and cytosine-- not previously spotted in meteorites were discovered. The discoveries originate from analyzing three carbonaceous meteorites, known to be abundant in...
Tropical Storm Ana dumped rainfall, intensified by climate change, across Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar in late January. Here, people stand on a vehicle overturned by floodwaters in Chikwawa, Malawi, on January 25. Credit: Bloomberg. Climate change intensified the rainfalls that battered southeastern Africa. Subsequently two powerful storms killed hundreds of individuals in early 2022. Heavy rains...
Credit: techzle. Astronomers believe they have discovered proof for an incredibly powerful nuclear explosion in space-- one so unique that seeing one like it again is extremely unlikely. The explosion appears to have occurred inside an unusual neutron star found 140,000 light-years from Earth called MAXI J0556-- 332. Neutron stars are the remnant cores of bigger...
As for we presently know, there is a solitary expanding blob of spacetime speckled with trillions of galaxies - that is our Universe. If there are others, forming a multiverse, we have no riveting evidence for their existence. Theories of cosmology, quantum physics, and the very philosophy of science have some issues that could be...
A Desert Full of Life Satellite images of the Sahara desert show a dry expanse, the endless rolling dunes we know from movies. Except typical satellite images do not reveal individual trees; however, that doesn't always mean they're not there. Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and NASA trained artificial intelligence to recognize trees and have them take another...
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...
