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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a galaxy of jellyfish located more than 900 million light-years away. Known as JW39, the galaxy is located in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It is one of many jellyfish galaxies the observatory has studied over the past two years. The Jellyfish Galaxy may seem serene, but NASA noted…
NASA has awarded $750,000 in prizes to eight winning teams in its Deep Space Food Challenge. The winning teams will participate in the third and final phase of the agency challenge. The Deep Space Food Challenge calls on participants to create technologies to help feed astronauts on future long-term space missions. NASA plans to send…
Chinese space officials said on Monday the program plans to place astronauts on the moon before 2030, as well as expand its space station. The deputy director of the Chinese Manned Space Agency confirmed the goals at a press conference at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, but did not provide a timeline. Deputy Director Lin…
NASA captures a ‘smiling’ sun NASA has shared a video taken by its Solar Dynamic Observatory showing dark spots on the sun, giving the illusion of a smile. (Credit: @NASASun/Twitter) NASA scientists have found strong evidence of a polar cyclone on Uranus for the first time. The researchers examined the radio waves emitted by the…
Killer whales severely damaged a sailboat off the coast of southern Spain on Thursday morning in an incident caught on camera. The local maritime rescue service said a group of orcas broke the boat’s rudder and pierced the hull, ramming the Mustique as it sailed to Gibraltar. The boat’s four-person crew contacted Spanish authorities for…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Thursday predicted a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season. In its outlook, NOAA predicts a range of 12 to 17 named storms in total. The names of the 2023 Atlantic tropical cyclones, as selected by the World Meteorological Organization, include Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Don, Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harold, Idalia,…
A massive underwater volcano that erupted in Tonga last year is believed to have disrupted satellite signals halfway around the world. Since then, an international team of researchers has used satellite and ground-based observations of the ionized part of the Earth’s upper atmosphere, or ionosphere, to demonstrate that an atmospheric pressure wave triggered by volcanic…
Credit…Andrew Spear for The New York Times If a bird is not in a forest and no one sees that it is not there, is it really not there? This is, in essence, the conundrum facing the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. For more than two decades, the lab has run eBird, a project that collects…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers find gas around a comet in the Main Asteroid Belt for the first time. In a statement, the agency said water vapor was confirmed using the observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph instrument. The results indicate that water ice from the early solar system – which formed around 4.5 billion…
Criminal cases of US wildlife officers for killing or injuring protected bald and golden eagles have plummeted in recent years, according to a new report. It comes even as the Associated Press said authorities had stepped up issuing permits that would allow wind energy companies to kill thousands of birds without legal consequences. The agency…
