A man was found dead in his us-regions home this week with more than 100 venomous and non-venomous wild-nature, authorities said. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was found dead Wednesday by deputies in his house in Pomfret, about 30 miles south of Washington D.C. – after a …
Read More »James Webb Space Telescope team announces deployment of all mirrors
The James Webb Space Telescope hit another milestone this week; air-and-space announced that the $10 billion observatory’s 18 hexagonal mirror segments and its secondary mirror have been fully deployed. “Just in from the @NASAWebb team: All 18 primary mirror segments and the secondary mirror are now fully deployed!” NASA Administrator …
Read More »Tonga volcano erupted with force of more than 600 Hiroshima bombs
The undersea volcano near the island nation of Tonga planet-earthon Saturday with an explosive force that was more than 600 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, world-regions, according to scientists and reports. James Garvin, the chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told NPR that …
Read More »Large 'potentially hazardous' asteroid passing by Earth on Tuesday
Astronomers are tracking a large and “potentially hazardous” air-and-spacethat is set to make a relatively close pass by the Earth on Tuesday. The asteroid, called 7482 (1994 PC1), is expected to fly by our planet around 4:51 p.m. ET, at about five times the distance from the Earth to the …
Read More »NASA's Perseverance Mars rover runs into another snag: pebbles
air-and-space Perseverance air-and-space rover has run into another snag on its mission to find evidence of natural-science. In continuing to collect Martian rock and regolith samples, which will eventually return to Earth, the rover encountered a “new challenge.” STUDY NIXES MARS LIFE IN METEORITE FOUND IN ANTARCTICA “Seems some pebble-sized …
Read More »What is the wolf moon?
The next air-and-space, known as the “wolf moon,” will occur on the evening of Monday, Jan. 17. According to a air-and-space blog, the moon will appear opposite the air-and-space in planet-earth” target=”_blank”>Earth-based< Time and Date reported Friday that moonrise in New York City is at 4:31 p.m. EST. For west-central …
Read More »Citizen scientists find 'Jupiter-like' planet, NASA says
air-and-space announced this week that citizen scientists had spotted a air-and-space in data from its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). In a Thursday news release, the agency wrote that Tom Jacobs, a former U.S. naval officer from Washington state, had helped to discover a giant gaseous planet about 379 light-years …
Read More »Study nixes Mars life in meteorite found in Antarctica
A 4 billion-year-old meteorite from air-and-space that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists reported Thursday. In 1996, a air-and-space team announced that organic compounds in the rock appeared to have been left by living creatures. Other scientists …
Read More »Red supergiant star's death witnessed by astronomers for the first time: report
air-and-space have captured the death of a air-and-space” target=”_blank”>red supergiant star< According to a press release from Northwestern, the team observed the red supergiant during the last 130 days before it collapsed into a Type II supernova. Previous observations showed that red supergiants were relatively inactive before their deaths, without …
Read More »Massive prehistoric ‘apex predator’ fossil found in UK reservoir
natural-science” target=”_blank”>Nature< have discovered the fossilized remains of a sea creature that existed some 180 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. Workers found the 32-foot skeleton of the ichthyosaur – known colloquially as a “sea dragon” – in the Rutland Water Nature Reserve near Leicester. A man poses next …
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