Hubble Space Telescope Sees Messier 62 | Astronomy

[ad_1] NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the agency 's Hubble Space Telescope of the Messier cluster globally 62. This image of Messier 62 is a composite of separate exposures acquired by Hubble 's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instruments. It is based on data obtained through … Read more

A warming hole in the North Atlantic has an impact on the jet stream

[ad_1] Iceberg floating in the Labrador Sea south of Greenland. Credit: Melissa Gervais / Penn State According to a team of researchers, the North Atlantic Warming Hole (NAWH), a region of the North Atlantic Ocean, is dramatically affecting the North Atlantic jet stream in future climate simulations. . Sea surface temperatures are expected to increase … Read more

Winds could blow microplastics around the world

[ad_1] At the top French Pyrenees, not far from the border with Spain, is an almost virgin clearing, sheltering snow and a weather station, but mostly snow on the snow. The nearest road closes in winter. The largest city in a radius of 100 km has only 9,000 inhabitants. Look closely at the landscape and … Read more

Small fragment of a comet found inside a meteorite

[ad_1] The arrow in this view of the LaPaz meteorite indicates where scientists have found the carbon-rich comet fragment. The colors produce a polarized light that shines through a thin slice of the meteorite; the grid lines are spaced one millimeter apart. Credit: Carles Moyano-Cambero, Institute of Space Science, Barcelona A tiny building block from … Read more

Why are space suits from NASA white?

[ad_1] Here is a transcript of the video. Narrator: What does Neil Armstrong, Ed White and the ISS astronauts have in common? They all wore a white space suit. And they are not alone. Beyond NASA, space programs in countries like Russia and China also use white suits. Not the colors of the Russian flag … Read more

How long do neutrons live? Physicists are approaching a puzzle that is decades old

[ad_1] The main detector of ultra-cold neutrons of the national laboratory of Los Alamos, where the physicists try to determine the lifetime of the particle.Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory Denver, Colorado Physicists are approaching more and more of a mystery of the universe: the lifespan of a neutron. Neutrons are electrically neutral particles that usually … Read more

Facial facts: we have evolved to communicate

[ad_1] The need to develop social skills has helped shape the modern human face, suggested scientists. Write in the newspaper Nature Ecology and Evolution, an international team proposes that our faces have evolved not only because of factors such as diet and climate, but also to offer more opportunities for gestural and nonverbal communication. "We … Read more

Meteor showers recover water from the moon

[ad_1] The meteor showers bring geysers from the moon. A lunar orbiter spotted additional water around the moon as it passed through waves of cosmic dust that could cause meteor shower on the Earth. The water has probably been released from the moon's soil by tiny meteorite impacts, planetary scientist Mehdi Benna of NASA's Goddard … Read more