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Astronomy Magazine

Friday, June 23. The mighty eagle Aquila is rising in the east around sunset. Give it about two hours to begin climbing out of the turbulent air near the ground and look first for its brightest star, magnitude 0.8 Altair.

GenomeWeb

NEW YORK – New research suggests gene expression is altered in immune-related white blood cells from individuals living in space, providing insights into the apparent infection susceptibility that has been described in astronauts on the International …

Chron

NASA has released yet another round of ambient sounds based on recently observed celestial objects.On Tuesday, the space agency unveiled three new “cosmic sonifications” converting the wavelengths of light detected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, …

KJZZ

Auroras appear to human eyes as ethereal curtains of visible light. But, as a new paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters explains, there are also scores of auroras visible only to electronic eyes. “They all have different reasons for …

Astronomy Magazine

The researchers found that nucleic acids, the information-carrying molecules that make up DNA and RNA, are stable in laboratory conditions simulating the sulfuric acid droplets in Venus’s clouds. The concentrated sulfuric acid in the …

Neuroscience News

Summary: Researchers mapped neural activity in an octopus’s visual system, revealing striking similarities to humans. The team observed neural responses to light and dark spots, thereby creating a map resembling the organization of the human brain.

New Scientist

This gravity “hole” may be due to low-density plumes of magma disturbed by the sinking slabs of a former tectonic plate. Neither Earth nor its gravitational field are a perfect sphere. Because gravity …

Science Advances

We present the first paleotopographic reconstruction of Taiwan by measuring the hydrogen isotope composition of leaf waxes (δ²HnC29) preserved in 3-Ma and younger sediments of the southern Coastal Range. Plant leaf waxes record the δ²H of precipitation …

EarthSky

So as comets move through space, they litter their orbits with debris. Thus, we get annual meteor showers when our planet Earth passes through a stream of comet debris. But the …

BBC Sky at Night Magazine

The Summer Triangle is one of the best-known asterisms in the night sky. Advertisement. Made out of three bright stars – Deneb, Vega and Altair – it’s often among the first star patterns that newcomers to astronomy identify, because it’s so obvious to …