A diagram comparing the Earth, at left, to a cross-section of a super-Earth on the right. The super-Earth has a relatively small rocky core, an atmosphere of methane, water and hydrogen and an extended hydrogen envelope. Credit: H. Lammer. Royal Astronomical Society, UK-(ENEWSPF)-In the last two decades astronomers have found[Read More…]
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NASA Sees A Coronal Mass Ejection Erupt From the Sun
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured these image of a coronal mass ejection, erupting on the left side of the sun early in the morning of Jan 31, 2013, as it was moving away from the sun into space. These images from SOHO are called coronagraphs, in which the[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama at Ceremony for the 2011 National Medals of Science, and National Medals of Technology and Innovation
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 1, 2013 – 2:22 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Please, everyone have a seat. Well, it is my incredible pleasure and honor to welcome this incredibly talented group of men and women in the White House. And I want to congratulate them[Read More…]
Where Are All The Dwarf Galaxies?
Cosmic Web Stripping, Visualization (Credits: Alejandro Benitez Llambay) LEIBNIZ-(ENEWSPF)- Astronomers of the international CLUES collaboration have identified “Cosmic Web Stripping” as a new way of explaining the famous missing dwarf problem: the lack of observed dwarf galaxies compared with that predicted by the theory of Cold Dark Matter and Dark[Read More…]
NASA’s Cassini Watches Storm Choke on Its Own Tail
This set of images from NASA’s Cassini mission shows the evolution of a massive thunder-and-lightning storm that circled all the way around Saturn and fizzled when it ran into its own tail. The storm was first detected on Dec. 5, 2010. That month, it developed a head of bright clouds[Read More…]