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This stunning new mosaic of images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope showcases the nearby star-forming cluster, NGC 1333. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld, R. Jayawardhana Rogue planets, or free-floating planetary-mass objects (FFPMOs), are planet-sized objects that either formed in interstellar space or were part of a planetary…
Satellite image of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS As a first-year master’s student in the Department of Earth Sciences, Katherine Lutz became fascinated by satellite images of Mars that showed spiraling shapes swirling across the planet’s polar ice caps. Consisting of alternating layers of ice and dusty deposits and measuring 400 to 1,000 meters deep, these spiral…
A figure comparing the results of earlier turbidite correlation research to results calculated by an algorithm developed at The University of Texas at Austin. Black dashed lines indicate similar research results. Red dashed lines are different results. Credit: Zoltan Sylvester The Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest has a history of producing powerful and…
Overview map of North West African Margin showing the pathway of the event and its erosional marks on the seafloor. Credit: University of Liverpool New research by the University of Liverpool has revealed how an underwater avalanche grew more than 100 times in size, causing a huge trail of destruction as it traveled 2,000km across…
Artist conception of 126 planets in the latest TESS-Keck Survey catalog is based on data including planet radius, mass, density, and temperature. Question marks represent planets requiring more data for full characterization. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko While thousands of planets have been discovered around other stars, relatively little is known about them. A…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A paper titled “Universality of the thermodynamics of a quantum-mechanically radiating black hole departing from thermality,” published in Physics Letters B highlights the importance of considering black holes as dynamical systems, where variations in their geometry during radiation emissions are critical to accurately describing their thermodynamic behavior. The study also suggests…
Spatial distribution and trends of total reactive nitrogen and NH4T deposition. Credit: Nature Geoscience (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01455-9 The U.S. has slashed smog-causing pollutants like airborne sulfur dioxide in the past 20 years, but the cuts have unintentionally increased ground and water pollution in some local areas, according to research from Princeton and Colorado State University….
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has made the first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) detections at 345 GHz from the surface of Earth. The new experiment used two small subarrays of the EHT—made up of ALMA and the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) in Chile, the IRAM 30-meter telescope in Spain, the NOrthern Extended Millimeter…
Illustration of the initial rupture sequence of the 2024 Noto earthquake, showing the distribution of high-frequency seismic energy and subsequent aftershocks across the fault system. Credit: University of California, Los Angeles The first seven months of 2024 have been so eventful, it’s easy to forget that the year started off with a magnitude 7.5 earthquake…
This graphic shows a cutaway model of Earth’s radiation belts with the two Van Allen Probes satellites flying through them. Credit: NASA illustration Two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have discovered a new type of “whistler,” an electromagnetic wave that carries a substantial amount of lightning energy to the Earth’s magnetosphere. The research is published…