Researchers turn to trees to determine if multicellular life on exoplanets exist
Is there life outside our planet?
Astronomy
Oct 2, 2020
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News tagged with shadow
Hubble sees a cosmic flapping 'Bat Shadow'
Sometimes nicknames turn out to be closer to reality than you might imagine.
Astronomy
Jun 25, 2020
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NASA's Juno prepares to jump Jupiter's shadow
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter has successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver—extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as its known, will keep the solar-powered spacecraft out of what ...
Space Exploration
Oct 3, 2019
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Hubble reveals a giant cosmic 'Bat Shadow'
Shadows on Earth can be mysterious and foreboding, but when they occur in space, they can convey information we otherwise could not know. In a stellar nursery called the Serpens Nebula, nearly 1,300 light-years away, a young ...
Astronomy
Oct 31, 2018
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Hubble captures 'shadow play' caused by possible planet
Eerie mysteries in the universe can be betrayed by simple shadows. The wonder of a solar eclipse is produced by the moon's shadow, and over 1,000 planets around other stars have been cataloged by the shadow they cast when ...
Astronomy
Jan 9, 2017
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NASA mission chases Pluto's shadow to catch details of its atmosphere
As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft closes in on Pluto—scheduled to make its closest approach on July 14—another mission much closer to Earth has caught sight of the dwarf planet's shadow: On June 29, SOFIA (Stratospheric ...
Space Exploration
Jul 8, 2015
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NASA's LRO mission and North America to experience total lunar eclipse (Update)
When people in North America look up at the sky in the early morning hours of April 15, they can expect the moon to look a little different.
Space Exploration
Apr 8, 2014
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From Cassini for the holidays: A splendor seldom seen
(Phys.org)—Just in time for the holidays, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for more than eight years now, has delivered another glorious, backlit view of the planet Saturn and its rings.
Space Exploration
Dec 19, 2012
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First photo of shadow of single atom
In an international scientific breakthrough, a Griffith University research team has been able to photograph the shadow of a single atom for the first time.
General Physics
Jul 3, 2012
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Video: Total solar eclipse seen from space
A total solar eclipse swept across North America yesterday, blocking out the sun momentarily with parts of the continent plunged into darkness. Geostationary satellites orbiting 36,000 km away captured images of the rare ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 9, 2024
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