Supermassive Black Holes in ‘Red Geyser’ Galaxies Cause Galactic Warming
By Alton Parrish.
An international team of scientists, including the University of Kentucky’s Renbin Yan, have uncovered a new class of galaxies, called “red geysers,” with supermassive black hole winds so hot and energetic [...]
Huge Coronal Hole Opens on the Sun
By Alton Parrish.
This imagery of the sun captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory from May 17-19, 2016, shows a giant dark area on the star’s upper half, known as a coronal hole. Coronal holes are low-density [...]
Tycho Supernova Explosion 15 Years Condensed into Seconds: Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Star’s Demise
By Alton Parrish.
An explosion too big for even Hollywood. A spectacle hundreds of years in the making.
When the star that created this supernova remnant exploded in 1572, it was so bright that it was visible during the day. And though [...]
Pluto’s Venera Terra, Utterly Alien Landscape, Unlike Anything Ever Seen
By Alton Parrish.
In looking over images of Pluto’s informally named Venera Terra region, New Horizons scientists have spotted an expanse of terrain they describe as “fretted.” As shown in the enhanced-color image at top, this [...]
Other Worldly Philately: New Stamps Honoring NASA Planetary Discoveries Debut May 31
By Alton Parrish.
With this pane of 16 Forever stamps, the Postal Service showcases some of the more visually compelling historic, full-disk images of the planets obtained during the last half-century of NASA space exploration. [...]
Meet the New Ocean Overlords
By Alton Parrish.
Big things are happening in the oceans. The seas may see a new status quo.
Humans have changed the world’s oceans in ways that have been devastating to many marine species. But, according to new evidence, it [...]
East Antarctic Glacier Contributed To Several Sea Level Rises In The Past
By Alton parrish.
Research published in the journal Nature on May 19 has revealed that vast regions of the Totten Glacier in East Antarctica are fundamentally unstable and have contributed significantly to rising sea levels several times [...]
Flora Keeps the Mind Sharp — With Some Help from the Immune System
By Alton Parrish.
A special kind of immune cell serves as an intermediary between gut bacteria and the brain. Dr. Susanne Wolf of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) discovered this in tests [...]
Van Allen Probes Reveal Long-term Behavior of Earth’s Ring Current
By Alton Parrish.
New findings based on a year’s worth of observations from NASA’s Van Allen Probes have revealed that the ring current – an electrical current carried by energetic ions that encircles our planet – behaves [...]
Jamesbondia: Four New Plant Species Named for Ornithologist James Bond
By Alton Parrish.
A new subgenus of plants has officially been called Jamesbondia after the notable American ornithologist James Bond, whose name Ian Fleming is known to have used for his eponymous spy series.
An article published in [...]
NASA Directly Observes A Fundamental Process of Nature for 1st Time
By Alton Parrish.
Like sending sensors up into a hurricane, NASA has flown four spacecraft through an invisible maelstrom in space, called magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection is one of the prime drivers of space radiation [...]
Weather Shaped by City Shape Say Researchers
By Alton Parrish.
The features that make cities unique are important to understanding how cities affect weather and disperse air pollutants, researchers highlight in a new study.
Compared to their surroundings, cities can be hot [...]
NASA Satellites Image Fort McMurray Fires Day and Night
By Alton parrish.
The grayish brown swirl that is combining with the clouds billowing over Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada is smoke that has risen from the Fort McMurray fire complex. This image taken by the Terra satellite’s Moderate [...]
Polluted Dust Can Impact Ocean Life Thousands of Miles Away Say Researchers
By Alton Parrish.
As climatologists closely monitor the impact of human activity on the world’s oceans, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found yet another worrying trend impacting the health of the Pacific [...]
Discovered: Tiny Ocean Organism Has Big Role in Climate Regulation
By Alton Parrish.
Scientists have discovered that a tiny, yet plentiful, ocean organism is playing an important role in the regulation of the Earth’s climate.
Research, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, has found that [...]
Evidence of Ancient Giant Asteroid Strike Found in Australia, “Just the Tip of the Iceberg…”
By Alton Parrish.
Scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid that struck the Earth early in its life with an impact larger than anything humans have experienced.
Tiny glass beads called spherules, found in north-western Australia [...]
Possibly The Most Ironic Myth Ever
– By Mike Sutton –
Possibly the most #ironic thing in the history of the world is also about iron. Just how ironic is that?
HealthWatch
I am most delighted that the esteemed HealthWatch organisation, which [...]
Quark-Gluon Plasma Created: Scientists See Ripples of a Particle-Separating Wave
By Alton Parrish.
Scientists in the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle accelerator exploring nuclear physics and the building blocks of matter at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven [...]
Mars: Boiling water could be carving slopes into the planet’s surface
By alton Parrish.
Active features observed on the surface of Mars could be the result of liquid water boiling whilst flowing under the low pressure of a thin atmosphere, according to an Open University study published online this week [...]
Space Mission First to Observe Key Interaction Between Magnetic Fields of Earth and Sun
By Alton Parrish.
NASA mission, with help from UMD physicists, is the first ever to observe how magnetic reconnection takes place, a critical step in understanding space weather.
Most people do not give much thought to the Earth’s [...]