The lives of newborn stars are tempestuous, as this image of the Herbig-Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts. Both objects are in the constellation Orion and lie around 1,250 light-years ...
Astronomy
Oct 21, 2022
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Approximately half of the large wildfires occurring between 2003 and 2020 were followed by dust events—storms of strong winds lifting dust and sand from dry soils, according to an analysis of more than 150,000 wildfires ...
Environment
Oct 19, 2022
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Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a promising computational imaging technique to realize high-throughput pathological imaging in medical diagnosis. However, existing FPM colorization approaches suffer from a trade-off ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 19, 2022
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Finally, after what was arguably the worst summer on record for glaciers, snow has begun to fall in the European Alps. It is much needed. Over the 19 years that I have visited and studied the glaciers in Switzerland, I have ...
Environment
Oct 19, 2022
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Southwest Research Institute scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn's rings from the Cassini mission. The compilation, published recently in the journal Icarus, will inform future investigations ...
Astronomy
Oct 18, 2022
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NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission aboard the International Space Station has produced its first mineral maps, providing detailed images that show the composition of the surface in regions ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 12, 2022
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Astronomers have observed directly for the first time how intense light from stars can 'push' matter. Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Sydney made the observation when tracking a giant plume of dust generated ...
Astronomy
Oct 12, 2022
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NASA's InSight mission, which is expected to end in the near future, saw a recent drop in power generated by its solar panels as a continent-size dust storm swirls over Mars' southern hemisphere. First observed on Sept. 21, ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 7, 2022
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This article highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process. Here, Webb interdisciplinary scientist Rogier Windhorst and his team discuss their observations.
Astronomy
Oct 5, 2022
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The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact.
Planetary Sciences
Oct 4, 2022
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