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October 06, 2018

Scientists Find What Could Be a History-Making Moon, NPR

(Top row, from left) Titan, Earth's moon, Europa and Enceladus. (Bottom row, from left) Callisto, Charon, Ariel and lo

October 05, 2018

Sky Rivers: Streams of Stars Reveal the Galaxy’s Violent History, Science

Long-exposure image of star trails (sky motion) above desert inversion layers and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (a part of AURA) in Chile Atmospheric refraction plays with the light of any object on the horizon. Here the startrails display immense distortion and mirage as the light rays are refracted and bent in the atmosphere

September 26, 2018

Watch: Simulations of Stellar Geysers from Luminous Blue Variable Stars

Stellar Geysers represented by a 3-D Simulation

September 26, 2018

Elusive Origin of Stellar Geysers Revealed by 3-D Simulations By Thomas Sumner

A snapshot from a simulation of the churning gas that blankets a star 80 times the sun’s mass

September 24, 2018

Gaia Data Releases Spark Open-Access Success By Thomas Sumner

Scientists projected data collected by the Gaia spacecraft onto the dome of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City

September 17, 2018

Hack Weeks Gaining Ground in the Earth and Space Sciences, Earth & Space Science News

3d rendering network and data exchange over planet earth in space

September 10, 2018

Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star Merger Offer New Regime of Understanding

Digital illustration of neutron stars colliding (center), they fling material outward at nearly the speed of light in particle jets (pink)

August 31, 2018

The New Science of Seeing Around Corners, Quanta Magazine

Digital illustration of a man and rabbit running in a maze toward each other at different sides of a corner