[ad_1] A low-flying asteroid only missed Earth by a few hundred kilometers on Friday the 13th – and wasn’t noticed until the next day. The asteroid, called 2020 VT4, was spotted 15 hours later by the investigation of the last asteroid Earth impact warning system at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. It passed our … Read more
[ad_1] The Tyrannosaurus rex, which was found buried in sediment next to a Triceratops, is believed to be fighting with the dinosaur at the time of its death. The first 100% complete T.rex ever found, it will soon be on display in a museum in North Carolina. Dubbed the “ dueling dinosaurs, ” the pair … Read more
[ad_1] By Meagan Cantwell, Katie FreeNovember 19, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. The fires that have raged in the United States and Australia over the past year have put vulnerable species at risk. But not all fires are devastating – in fact, fire can promote biodiversity. In the prairies, fires prevent trees and roots from taking … Read more
[ad_1] Image by Vandenberg AFB. –Vandenberg Airforce Base and SpaceX are scheduled to launch the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite this Saturday at 9:17 am from the base. The Sentinel-6 is the first of two identical satellites to move into Earth orbit five years apart to continue sea level observations for at least the next decade. … Read more
[ad_1] In images from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have spotted an entirely new phenomenon. Reaching tens of thousands of light-years into the void of space, vast shadows stretch out from the center of the galaxy IC 5063, as if something is blocking the bright light. You’ve probably seen something very similar before: Beams of … Read more
[ad_1] A Leonid fireball captured over Sweden in 2015. Spaceweather.com/Andre Pooschke Say what you want of the perils of 2020. It’s been a meteoric year for sky watchers, with bright comets and heavy meteor showers which continue this month with the appearance of the annual leonids, which last until the end of November. The Leonids … Read more
[ad_1] In the years to come, some truly impressive new generation telescopes will collect their first light. Between space telescopes like James webb and Nancy Grace Roman, and ground-based telescopes like the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) and Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), astronomers will be able to study aspects of the Universe that were previously inaccessible. … Read more
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[ad_1] American researchers say they have identified specific physiological characteristics that may stimulate the spread of airborne pathogens, such as the coronavirus. A team of scientists from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida combined 3D modeling with numerical simulations to digitally recreate the sneezes of a variety of … Read more
[ad_1] “The telescope is in danger of catastrophic failure,” the NSF wrote in a November statement. “Any attempt to repair could put workers in potentially fatal danger.” As such, the NSF announced Thursday that it will dismantle the painting before it can collapse on its own. “Until these evaluations arrived, our question was not whether … Read more