A species of ray, so rare it has only ever been recorded once back in the late 1800s, has been declared extinct after an assessment by an international team led by Charles Darwin University (CDU). The loss of the Java Stingaree, ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2023
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On the heels of Tuesday's release of the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, data from the telescope's commissioning period is now being released on the Space Telescope Science Institute's Mikulski Archive ...
Astronomy
Jul 15, 2022
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Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. The stunning new images of the star's surface show not only the ...
Astronomy
Feb 14, 2020
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The recent commercialization of the EnChroma glasses has generated great expectations among the color blind thanks to a strong campaign on social networks and the media. Users of the glasses hoped to see new colors or even ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 29, 2018
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The latest images of Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are stunners.
Astronomy
Aug 22, 2022
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Astronomers have discovered a planet in orbit around one of the closest stars to the Sun, Barnard's star.
Astronomy
Nov 14, 2018
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Orbiting a red dwarf star 41 light-years away is an Earth-sized, rocky exoplanet called GJ 1132 b. In some ways, GJ 1132 b has intriguing parallels to Earth, but in other ways it is very different. One of the differences ...
Astronomy
Mar 11, 2021
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Almost 35 years ago, scientists made the then-radical proposal that colossal hydrogen bombs called novae go through a very long-term life cycle after erupting, fading to obscurity for hundreds of thousands of years and then ...
Astronomy
Mar 24, 2020
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Now's the time to catch Mars in the night sky.
Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2018
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Among the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, KOI-456.04 is something special: less than twice the size of Earth, it orbits a sun-like star. And it does so with a star-planet distance that could permit planetary surface temperatures ...
Astronomy
Jun 4, 2020
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