Image: Dark and stormy Jupiter
This image captures the intensity of the jets and vortices in Jupiter's North North Temperate Belt.
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Big Data exploration in the era of Gaia
Two astronomers from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) have developed a software library that can effortlessly generate visualisations based on hundreds of millions of data points. Maarten Breddels and Jovan Veljanoski ...
Image: A dexterous laboratory in space
Have you ever considered yourself capable of manipulating gravity? When you grip an object, you are doing just that.
New tech uses isomeric beams to study how and where the galaxy makes one of its most common elements
Our galaxy produces and destroys the element aluminum-26 in the process of making magnesium-26. As it forms, it can be momentarily "stuck" in a mirror-image (isomeric) state. Getting stuck lets other reactions occur that ...
Iron-rich minerals on Mars could contain life's fatty acids
A little stream in the south of England could guide the way towards finding evidence for ancient life on Mars, in the form of fatty acids preserved in an iron-rich mineral called goethite.
Hunting molecules to find new planets
It's impossible to obtain direct images of exoplanets as they are masked by the high luminous intensity of their stars. However, astronomers led by UNIGE propose detecting molecules present in the exoplanet's atmosphere in ...
