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Rare Form of ‘Red Lightning’ Caught on Camera Over Puerto Rico

Wed, 08/07/2024 - 12:45

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Image of a gigantic jet over Puerto Rico

Earth Science, astronomy, atmospheric science, giant jets, lightning, Puerto Rico, Video

Secret experiments by a 16th-century alchemist involved an element that nobody knew about at the time

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 13:53

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Tycho Brahe in a portrait with an oval around it — Tycho Brahe, a 16th-century astronomer and alchemist, had tungsten in his lab nearly 200 years before scientists knew what it was.
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How to see a double meteor shower on Tuesday night with a chance of fireballs

Mon, 07/29/2024 - 18:50

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Bright white streaks showing meteors headed toward Earth's surface shown on bottom half of image. — Earth regularly passes through streams of comet debris that produce hundreds of meteor showers a year.
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2 'potentially hazardous' asteroids will streak by Earth this week, one as big as a mountain. You can watch it live.

Wed, 06/26/2024 - 16:25

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An asteroid floats above Earth — Two different "potentially hazardous" asteroids will fly by Earth this week. Both will be rare and spectacular events, but they won't threaten Earth.
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NASA is putting an 'artificial star' in orbit around Earth

Tue, 06/18/2024 - 11:53

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Illustration of Earth as seen far from space with stars in the background — NASA aims to launch a mini satellite the size of a bread box that could become one of the most important astronomical tools by the end of this decade.
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Science, NASA, astronomy, dark-energy, Exoplanets

Astronomers Witness a Supermassive Black Hole Roaring to Life

Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:10

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Five years ago, a galaxy 300 million light-years away got a lot brighter in telescopes, radiating ultraviolet, optical, and infrared light out into space. This year, the resurgent galaxy started emitting X-rays, indicating that its initial brightening was really just a warmup.