Team launches ‘comb and copter’ system to map atmospheric gases
NIST has combined a laser instrument that 'combs' the air with a flying multi-copter to scan and map atmospheric gases over kilometer distances.
Credit: NIST
Researchers...
Mismatched twin stars spotted in the delivery room
Astronomers have identified 18 extreme mass-ratio binaries in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, pictured here. The more massive stars weigh 6...
Low-mass stars always born with a sibling: Many, like our sun, split up
This is a radio image of a very young binary star system, less than about 1 million years old, that formed within a dense...
Bizarro comet challenging researchers
Here's an illustration of Echeclus, which UCF researcher Gal Sarid and USF professor Maria Womack are studying.
Credit: Florida Space Institute at UCF
Scientists pursue research...
Shocking case of indigestion in supermassive black hole
Left: Image of the Whirlpool galaxy and NGC 5195. Credit: Jon Christensen. Right: False colour image of NGC 5195 created by combining the VLA...
‘Little Cub’ gives astronomers rare chance to see galaxy demise
The Little Cub galaxy (circled) which is being stripped of gas by its larger neighbor.
Credit: SDSS Collaboration
A primitive galaxy that could provide clues about...
Surprise methanol detection points to evolving story of Saturn’s moon Enceladus’s plumes
Image of Enceladus with the location of a possible confined methanol cloud, the methanol spectrum from the study and images of the methanol molecule.
A...
Through fossil leaves, a step towards Jurassic Park
Ginkgo fossil.
Credit: Stephen McLoughlin
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in establishing the relationships between 200-million-year-old plants based on chemical fingerprints. Using infrared spectroscopy...
Praying mantises hunt down birds worldwide
Common brown mantis.
Credit: © nskyr2 / Fotolia
A study by zoologists from Switzerland and the US shows: praying mantises all over the globe also include...
Musical sun reduces range of magnetic activity
Image of the sun in 171 angstrom as seen by NASA's SDO on 3rd July 2017. This channel is especially good at showing coronal...
Improved representation of solar variability in climate models
The yellow shows old reconstruction, the black shows new reconstruction and the grey shaded shows observations.
Credit: GEOMAR
How much do solar cycle variations influence our...
