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Space.com

The crescent moon joins Mars, Venus and some of the brightest stars to kick off the summer 2024 skywatching season. Comments (0). Jump to: June 19: Gemini stars Castor and Pollux; June 20: Moon near Venus; June 21: Summer solstice; June 22: Crescent …

EarthSky

Light from the stars couldn’t penetrate the dense hydrogen intergalactic gas. So, how did the universe become clear? Using data from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope, an international group of astronomers said on June 12, 2023, that light from stars ionized and …

Space.com

Earth’s tilt has changed by 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) between 1993 and 2010 because of the amount of groundwater humans have pumped from the planet’s interior. In that period, humans removed 2,150 gigatons of water from natural reservoirs in the …

Phys.Org

The long hunt for extraterrestrials just got a big boost. Scientists have discovered that phosphorus, a key building block of life, lies in the ocean beneath the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The finding was based on a review of data …

Ars Technica

Cosmic rays showering down on Earth’s atmosphere are the basis of a new wireless alternative system to GPS navigation. 2015 Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka. GPS is now a mainstay of daily life, helping …

Lake County News

Each winter, the Geminid meteors light up the sky as they race past Earth, producing one of the most intense meteor showers in the night sky. Now, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission is providing new evidence that a violent, catastrophic event created …

News-Medical.net

It is a laser-based technique that uses something known as Raman scattering, a special interaction between molecules and light which helps identify what’s in a sample under the microscope. We successfully performed RESORT imaging of mitochondria in cells …

The Hindu

Groundwater pumped up from the earth and moved elsewhere to quench the thirst of humans and their activities resulted in the earth’s axis tilting nearly 80 cm to the east, a new study has found. The same study also found that nearly 2,150 billion …

The Hindu

High concentrations of phosphorus, an essential element for all biological processes on Earth, have been detected in ice crystals spewed from the interior ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, adding to its potential to harbour life, researchers said.

Hindustan Times

The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), based in Pune, has successfully developed a groundbreaking space telescope called the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT). On June 6, IUCAA handed over the telescope to the …