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Space.com

In December 1995, an observatory traveled nearly a million miles from Earth as part of a $1 billion mission to study the sun. However, what scientists thought would be a two-year endeavor …

Space.com

The quasar”s black hole is consuming the equivalent of 40 times the mass of our sSun each year. Comments (0). A composite image of the quasar H1821+643, with X-ray data from Chandra in blue and radio wavelength data from the Very Large Array in red …

Space.com

Younger stars are forming in the northwest lobe, whereas the southeast lobe houses more evolved stars that formed as many as 10 billion years ago.

USA TODAY

Mother Nature might eclipse the eclipse, top meteorologists told USA TODAY Thursday when asked about the weather forecast for the April 8 spectacle, now just 10 days away. The total eclipse will pass over parts of roughly a dozen states as it traverses …

Florida Today

Delta IV Heavy made its debut in 2004. At that time, it was the most powerful rocket launched from Cape Canaveral save the Saturn V & space shuttles. The massive Delta IV Heavy has 3 Delta …

USA TODAY

The online marketplace is flooded with retailers selling solar eclipse glasses they claim have the NASA seal of approval. · NASA does not endorse any eclipse products · Where to get certified solar eclipse glasses.

Stanford University News

Total solar eclipses happen when the moon passes directly in front of the sun, plunging narrow bands of the Earth into darkness as the moon’s shadow travels along the “path of totality” on Earth. The next one in the United States will happen on April 8 …

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

“This work shows that cells carefully monitor the time taken to execute mitosis and use that as a filter to eliminate potentially problematic cells,” said Arshad Desai, PhD, a UCSD faculty member in the department of cell and developmental biology.

Phys.Org

Black-capped chickadees have extraordinary memories that can recall the locations of thousands of morsels of food to help them survive the winter. Now scientists at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute have discovered how the chickadees can remember so many …

UT News | The University of Texas at Austin

Since Einstein had predicted that gravity would bend the path of light near massive objects like the sun, curving spacetime itself, Eddington realized that during a total solar eclipse, the moon blocks the sun’s light, allowing stars near the sun to be …