Starburst Galaxy M94 from Hubble
Why does this galaxy have a ring of bright blue stars? Beautiful island universe Messier 94 lies a […]
Science
Studying Sea Snakes? Time to Call the ‘Fantastic Grandmothers’ by ...
A group of snorkeling seniors has helped scientists collect data about greater sea snakes in New Caledonia. Published: […]
Star Trails for a Red Planet
Does Mars have a north star? In long exposures of Earth’s night sky, star trails make concentric arcs […]
Galileo s Europa Remastered
Looping through the Jovian system in the late 1990s, the Galileo spacecraft recorded stunning views of Europa and […]
Moon and Planets at Twilight
This week’s ongoing conjunction of Venus and Jupiter may have whetted your appetite for skygazing. Tonight is the […]
Is This the First Fossil of an Embryo? by CARL ...
Mysterious 609-million-year-old balls of cells may be the oldest animal embryos — or something else entirely. Published: November […]
How Stalagmites Get Their Shapes by KATHERINE KORNEI
Researchers developed a physics-based model to explain how the structures on cave floors take so many different forms. […]
Blue Whale Hearts May Beat Only Twice a Minute During ...
Nature’s most extreme animal has an equally extreme circulatory system, researchers found. Published: November 27, 2019 at 01:00AM […]
Hoags Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring Galaxy
Is this one galaxy or two? This question came to light in 1950 when astronomer Arthur Hoag chanced […]
Bearing Witness to an Asteroid’s Assassination by ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS
At first astronomers thought they had spotted a comet, but it was really an asteroid in the belt […]