Just days after celebrating its first anniversary in Jupiter orbit, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will fly directly over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the gas giant’s iconic, 10,000-mile-wide (16,000-kilometer-wide) storm. This will … NASA probe successfully peers into Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – Phys.Org
x Embed x Share CLOSE On Aug. 21 we will see the first solar eclipse in the U.S. since 1979. Our graphic explains exactly what one is, shows it’s path and some how-to viewing tips. By Ramon Padilla, Karl Gelles, Dann Miller, Walbert Castillo, Janet Loehrke and Sara Wise, USA TODAY NETWORK The sun’s corona […]
While some nations may be content to simply set foot on the moon, China has bigger things in mind. President Xi Jinping has said he wants his country to become a force in space exploration, and the plan is to start at the celestial body closest to Earth. China wants to send a probe to […]
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is about to get the best-ever look at Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot. Juno will fly over the 10,000-mile-wide (16,000 kilometers) storm — which is so big that three Earths could fit inside it — at 10:06 p.m. EDT tonight (July 10; 0206 GMT on July 11), during the probe’s sixth […]
Plants are often seen as taking a passive role in their environments, just hanging out and soaking up the sunlight. But that impression is wrong—plants have many sophisticated ways of influencing their environment, and other plants and animals in it. And this includes leading herbivores down the garden path to cannibalism. When tomatoes and other […]
Despite reports to the contrary, the Great Barrier Reef really is not dead yet. Last week, Unesco resolved not to add it to its “endangered” list, despite fears that it would (and despite surprising additions such as Vienna). And in fact, as travellers who still have not ticked it off their bucket list will be […]
Huge discovery deep in space shocks scientists – Morning Ticker
Aerial view of the Heart Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef Arterra/UIG via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Arterra/UIG via Getty Images Aerial view of the Heart Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef Arterra/UIG via Getty Images Nearly a hundred miles off the shore of Port Douglas, Australia, tourists jump into the […]
3. Many of us think of light as the stuff we can see with our human eyes. In fact, radio waves, microwaves, infrared light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays are all different flavors of light, beyond what humans can detect. Ten Facts About the Light, the Dark, and the Total Solar Eclipse – HuffPost
Vanessa Miller The Gazette More stories from Vanessa Astronomers and the like have been observing Jupiter’s “Great Red Spot” almost continuously for more than 180 years. But they’ve never seen it like this. On Monday, NASA’s Juno mission is expected to pass directly over the 10,000-mile-wide storm, coming unprecedentedly close — about the distance from […]
