NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, designed to study the early universe in infrared light, was the…
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A RUDN University Physicist Simplified the Einstein-Lovelock Theory for Black Holes
Allowing for quantum corrections, the Einstein-Lovelock theory describes black holes with an equation that contains…
Meteorite Strikes May Create Unexpected Form of Silica
When a meteorite hurtles through the atmosphere and crashes to Earth, how does its violent…
NASA Observes Large Saharan Dust Plume Over Atlantic Ocean
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite observed a huge Saharan dust plume streaming over the North Atlantic…
Solar Storms Could Scramble Whales’ Navigational Sense
When our sun belches out a hot stream of charged particles in Earth’s general direction,…
Dating a Galaxy Crash
The dwarf galaxy Gaia-Enceladus collided with the Milky Way probably approximately 11.5 billion years ago.…
Active Asteroid Unveils Fireball Identity
At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over…
Nightside Barrier Gently Brakes ‘Bursty’ Plasma Bubbles
A magnetohydrodynamic simulation by the Gamera project at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory shows…
No ‘Clouded’ Judgments: Geostationary Satellite an Alternative to Monitor Land Surfaces
Satellite remote sensing has widely been used to monitor and characterize the spatial and temporal…
Boosting Wind Farmers, Global Winds Reverse Decades of Slowing and Pick Up Speed
In a boon to wind farms, average daily wind speeds are picking up across much…
