San Francisco, CA-(ENEWSPF)- The Center for Biological Diversity today released its new Extinction Facts labels illustrating the extreme environmental cost of the most popular items in the American diet: hamburgers, chicken breasts and bacon. Americans consume more than 50 billion pounds of meat per year, four times the global average. This[Read More…]
Day: May 17, 2016
Time-lapse Video: The Assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror
NASA-(ENEWSPF)- This time-lapse shows the assembly of the primary mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Assembly was completed on February 3, 2016. JWST is the scientific successor to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built. Webb will study many phases in the[Read More…]
Hubble Catches Views of a Jet Rotating with Comet 252P/LINEAR
Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- For thousands of years, humans have recorded sightings of mysterious comets sweeping across the nighttime skies. These celestial wanderers, “snowballs” of dust and ice, are swift-moving visitors from the cold depths of space. Some of them periodically visit the inner solar system during their journeys around the sun. Astronomers[Read More…]
Metal Content in Early Galaxies Challenges Star Forming Theory
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii-(ENEWSPF)- An International team led by scientists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland used the W. M. Keck Observatory to study the role of star formation rates in metal contents of distant galaxies. What they discovered is the amount of metals are very similar, irrespective of galaxies’ star formation activity, raising[Read More…]
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