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[ad_1] -> Eta Aquariid meteor shower in 2015 from Chile’s Atacama Desert. Composite image by Yuri Beletsky. The famous Eta Aquariid meteor shower – one of the year’s major meteor showers – peaks every year in early May. In 2020, the peak centers around May 5. This shower is known …

[ad_1] Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host to Ask an astronaut and Space radioand author of “Your place in the universe.Sutter contributed this article to Expert voices from Space.com: Op-Ed & Insights. Magnetars, super dense, highly magnetized, fast-spinning stars, are among …

[ad_1] The Universe is a wonderful place, filled with a large number of planets to explore, unsolved mysteries, and even ‘super bubbles’ blown by black holes. But there is one thing that space really is not: noisy. Without Earth’s air molecules that help you listen, out there in space you …

[ad_1] -> A new study, published on April 30, 2020, in Science, used an advanced laser Earth observation instrument on board a satellite to make precise and detailed measurements of how the elevation of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets has changed between 2003 and 2019. The study results show …

[ad_1] British scientists are competing to try to answer fundamental questions about the Covid-19 virus and its transmission before the government approves the lifting of the current national blockade in the near future. The researchers say that relaxing social distancing should occur only once it is understood why thousands of …

[ad_1] Mars opposition On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 10:51 GMT, the planet Mars approached Earth closer than ever in the past 60,000 years. It became the brightest object in the night sky, a beautiful red jewel in the sky, with an apparent diameter in the sky of approximately 25 …

[ad_1] As the historic return of human spaceflights from American soil is rapidly approaching, SpaceX takes a moment to highlight the crew’s latest Dragon achievement. During a general press conference on the commercial crew and the International Space Station held on Friday, May 1, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer …

[ad_1] Scientists have found that rodents’ eyes and brains appear to have incredibly similar drainage systems that are used for self-cleaning, and there is reason to think that this might apply to us, too. This type of maintenance is necessary to remove cells and waste fluids, and we know that …

[ad_1] From nasa Spitzer Space Telescope He may be removed, but the things he witnessed during his sixteen-and-a-half-year mission will be the subject of study for many years. For example, Spitzer It is the only telescope to witness something truly amazing happening in the center of the distant galaxy OJ …

[ad_1] Rabat: German-Moroccan paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim has released new evidence that spinosaurus dinosaurs could swim, a controversial theory, using their tails to propel them through the water. Studying the fossil of a “Spinosaurus aegyptiacus” tail that researchers found in eastern Morocco, Ibrahim concluded that the tail was “unequivocal evidence” of …