Being Frank: Dead zones are symptoms of warming planet By Ed Johnstone NWIFC Chairman • February 1, 2023 1:30 am As first stewards on the front lines of climate change, treaty tribes have been sounding the alarm for more than a decade about low oxygen levels in the ocean and the Salish Sea. Billy Frank …
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Jupiter is our solar system’s undisputed king of the planets! Jupiter is bright and easy to spot from our vantage point on Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops. Jupiter even possesses moons the size of planets: Ganymede, its largest, is bigger than the planet Mercury. What’s more, you can easily …
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If you want to know where you are in space, you’d better bring along a map. But it’s a little more complicated than riding shotgun on a family road trip. Spacecraft navigation beyond Earth orbit is usually carried out by mission control. A series of radio communication arrays across the planet, known as the Deep …
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PRESS RELEASE Published February 2, 2023
So this is your second paradigm — inflation plus cold dark matter plus dark energy? Yes. And it’s this amazing, glass-half-full, half-empty situation. The lambda-cold dark matter paradigm has these three pillars that are well established with evidence, and that allow us to describe the evolution of the universe from a tiny fraction of a …
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A rare meteorite that contains some of the oldest material in the solar system was discovered in Antarctica earlier this month, scientists say. Weighing 17 pounds, the space rock described as about “the size of a gourd” was discovered on January 5th by an international team at the tail end of an 11-day expedition. “When …
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Sierra Space aimed to blow a space module apart on video, and delivered on that promise in spades. The company completed its third module test on the journey to certify its module design for eventual spaceflight and to help develop a private space complex to replace the International Space Station (ISS). The accelerated systematic creep …
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Stargazers were treated to a stunning spectacle as an ultra-rare green comet – last seen by the Neanderthals – made its closest fly by of Earth in 50,000 years. The giant space rock, codenamed C/2022 E3, zipped past the planet at a distance of 26.4 million miles, having only recently been discovered by astronomers as …
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This week science lost one of its greatest Earth system experts, Australia lost a skilled, passionate communicator of climate science and the world lost a humble soul of the highest humanity, kindness and integrity. Nor did scores of others, I lost a colleague and friend when Will Steffen left us on Sunday after a battle …
Planets orbiting binary stars are in a tough situation. They have to contend with the gravitational pull of two separate stars. Planetary formation around a single star like our Sun is relatively straightforward compared to what circumbinary planets go through. Until recently, astronomers weren’t sure they existed. Astronomers rarely find binary stars with planets orbiting …
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