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Re-making planets after star-death
Sketch of the nebula formed by a wind of electrons and positrons coming from the pulsar, and the interaction with interstellar gas. Geminga crossed...
Figuring out how fast Greenland is melting
Taken from the International Space Station in 2016, this picture of the southern tip of Greenland shows the island's vast ice sheet fringed by...
Calm lakes on Titan could mean smooth landing for future space probes
Titan is Saturn's largest moon. Its cloudy appearance comes from an atmosphere mixed with gaseous nitrogen and hydrocarbons.
Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ Cassini Orbiter
The...
CT scan of Earth links deep mantle plumes with volcanic hotspots
Most of the known volcanic hotspots are linked to plumes of hot rock (red) rising from two spots on the boundary between the metal...
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...
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...
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...
