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Salt Water Remnants on Ceres
Does Ceres have underground pockets of water? Ceres, the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, was thought to […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on September 1, 2020 by Farzin

SS 433 is one of the most exotic star systems known. Its unremarkable name stems from its inclusion […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on August 31, 2020 by Farzin

NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars
How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on August 30, 2020 by Farzin

Martian Chiaroscuro
Deep shadows create dramatic contrasts between light and dark in this high-resolution close-up of the martian surface. Recorded […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on August 29, 2020 by Farzin

Fossil Reveals ‘One of the Cutest Dinosaurs’ Ever Found by ...
While many fossils have been flattened by time and the elements, a titanosaur found in an egg was […]

This entry was posted in New York Times Science and tagged NYT science on August 29, 2020 by Farzin

250 Million Years Ago, They Hibernated at the Bottom of ...
In the tusks of creatures that lived before dinosaurs, paleontologists found signs of hibernation-like metabolism. Published: August 27, […]

This entry was posted in New York Times Science and tagged NYT science on August 28, 2020 by Farzin

The Valley of Orion
This exciting and unfamiliar view of the Orion Nebula is a visualization based on astronomical data and movie […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on August 28, 2020 by Farzin

Shell Galaxies in Pisces
This intergalactic skyscape features a peculiar system of galaxies cataloged as Arp 227 some 100 million light-years distant. […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on August 27, 2020 by Farzin

What would it look like to circle a black hole? If the black hole was surrounded by a […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on August 25, 2020 by Farzin

How come the crescent Moon doesn’t look like this? For one reason, because your eyes can’t simultaneously discern […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on August 24, 2020 by Farzin