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Phosphine gas means there might be life on Venus.

15 September 2020 grant 0

Science News explains the strange chemistry that’s behind the new discovery, and why it means that Venus can get added to the same list as Mars and the Jovian moon Europa as a possible… Read the rest “Phosphine gas means there might be life on Venus.”

A black hole bigger than a hundred suns.

3 September 2020 grant 0

BBC peers into deepest space to find the origins of a gravity “shockwave” from 7 billion years ago that was still strong enough to shake laser detectors on Earth last May –… Read the rest “A black hole bigger than a hundred suns.”

We just had the closest asteroid fly-by ever.

22 August 2020 grant 0

Space.com shares what we learned about how Earth’s gravity has affected 2020QG, a car-sized asteroid that became the closest to approach Earth without slamming into us:

Early Sunday

… Read the rest “We just had the closest asteroid fly-by ever.”

Supernovas have caused mass extinctions. (As if asteroids weren’t bad enough.)

20 August 2020 grant 0

Science Daily reports on radioactivity research that has found evidence that at least one mass extinction event in Earth’s history was caused not by an asteroid crash, but by cosmic… Read the rest “Supernovas have caused mass extinctions. (As if asteroids weren’t bad enough.)”

SONG: Campfires

15 August 2020 grant 0

SONG: “Campfires”

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SOURCE: Based on Science Daily, 16 July 2020, “Solar Orbiter’s first images reveal ‘campfires’ on the Sun”… Read the rest “SONG: Campfires”

Ceres shines brightest where there’s salt water under the surface.

14 August 2020 grant 0

Science Daily looks to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where the dwarf planet Ceres spins – and may serve as a vast reservoir for space travelers. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft… Read the rest “Ceres shines brightest where there’s salt water under the surface.”

Scientific illustrations of the sun from the European Space Agency's Solar Observer mission

Science Art: The many faces of the Sun from Solar Orbiter’s EUI and PHI instruments, 2020

9 August 2020 grant 0

Scientific illustrations of the sun from the European Space Agency's Solar Observer missionClick to embiggen
It’s my mother’s birthday today. Here, nine glorious suns for a Leo.

They were photographed by the European Space Agency’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager… Read the rest “Science Art: The many faces of the Sun from Solar Orbiter’s EUI and PHI instruments, 2020”

We’ve got a new way to predict solar flares.

5 August 2020 grant 0

Science Daily shares research from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, that gives us a new handle on predicting when the worst solar flares will come, giving us enough extra… Read the rest “We’ve got a new way to predict solar flares.”

Scientific illustration of phases of the moon, from Six Thousand Years Ago: or, the Works of Creation illustrated

Science Art: Phases of the Moon, 1844.

2 August 2020 grant 0

Scientific illustration of phases of the moon, from Six Thousand Years Ago: or, the Works of Creation illustratedClick to embiggen

The moon is a body in space that reflects the light of our sun back at us. Which might sound a little weird to say, but this picture does make it all a little easier to grasp.

It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Phases of the Moon, 1844.”

Betelgeuse, the cannibal.

22 July 2020 grant 0

“Bad Astronomer” Phil Plait, over at SyFy.com, explains a new study that demonstrates how the red giant Betelgeuse might have gotten so big – by eating another star… Read the rest “Betelgeuse, the cannibal.”

Help track satellites (for astronomers worried that they’re starting to block out the stars.)

19 July 2020 grant 0

Satellite Streak Watcher is a project on the AnecData citizen science site that asks anyone with a cell phone to take a picture of the night sky to see just how many satellites there really … Read the rest “Help track satellites (for astronomers worried that they’re starting to block out the stars.)”

There are campfires on the Sun.

18 July 2020 grant 0

Science Daily shares some of the discoveries from the first images of the Solar Orbiter mission – including the presence of “mini-flares” that astronomers have dubbed… Read the rest “There are campfires on the Sun.”

Radio telescopes have spotted four very strange… things.

14 July 2020 grant 0

LiveScience has more on the entirely new, bright-edged circular objects, the so-called “odd radio circles” or ORCs that astronomers are struggling to figure out:

In a new

… Read the rest “Radio telescopes have spotted four very strange… things.”

Maybe ‘Oumuamua was a hydrogen iceberg. Not a comet. Not an asteroid. Hydrogen.

4 July 2020 grant 0

Scientific American has an unexpected explanation for the mysterious interstellar object dubbed “‘Oumuamua” that drifted into our solar system in 2017. Maybe the monolithic… Read the rest “Maybe ‘Oumuamua was a hydrogen iceberg. Not a comet. Not an asteroid. Hydrogen.”

Music of a pulsing star reveals its inner structure.

14 May 2020 grant 0

Nature looks inside pulsing stars – not pulsars, but a group called “δ Scuti stars” – that flicker in a regular enough pattern that astronomers can use the frequency… Read the rest “Music of a pulsing star reveals its inner structure.”

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