Remote monitoring using airborne devices such as drones or satellites could revolutionise the effectiveness of…
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Chronicling Legacy of Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, designed to study the early universe in infrared light, was the…
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…
