The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on June 23, 2022, as the spacecraft flew past the planet for its second of six gravity assist maneuvers at Mercury. This image was taken at 09:51:07 UTC by the Mercury Transfer Module’s Monitoring Camera 3, when the spacecraft was 1406 km (874 miles) from … Read more
This year, government aims to invest R2.2 billion in managing protected areas, restoring ecosystems, removing alien species and preventing wildfires. This will create at least 48 982 work opportunities in rural areas, writes Minister Barbara Creecy. The recent flooding in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and parts of the North West that resulted in the death … Read more
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/SwRI/Ramanakumar Sankar A new citizen science project opens thousands of images taken from the Juno spacecraft for volunteers to review. The goal of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities project is to learn more about the atmosphere on Jupiter. The Jovian Vortex Hunter program trains any interested volunteers to spot differences in cloud composition—including clouds … Read more
NASA’s NuSTAR space telescope, shown in this illustration, features two main components separated by a 30-foot (10-meter) mast, sometimes called a boom. Light is collected at one end of the mast and is focused along its length before hitting detectors at the other end. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech After a decade of observing some of the hottest, … Read more
NEW YORK — Aaron Judge walked over to the stands and gave his bat to Spike Lee, a New York Yankees fan famous for scripting Hollywood dramas. This weekend’s Yankees- Houston Astros series had all the ups, downs and twist endings audiences could handle. And when baseball’s award season arrives, bet on critics taking a … Read more
One of the most amazing things about astronomy is how it acts like a time machine. For example, we sometimes see things so far away that it takes light billions of years to reach us, so we see that object as it was when it was young. But in another way, we can travel in … Read more
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) has made revolutionary discoveries over the years, but its recent development has made a 1-kilometer stretch under Menlo Park cooler than most of space. A superconducting X-ray able to take videos of atoms can revolutionize science, not just at the grand scale of analyzing molecules, but in improving day-to-day products … Read more
Tackling the climate crisis needs all G20 nations to step up, make bold commitments, and get on with implementing them. Making the promise is only the first step. Getting the promised job done, as quickly as possible, is crucial if we are to keep warming to 1.5°C and avoid even worse, and worsening, loss and … Read more
An illustration of the spacesuit that Collins Aerospace plans to develop for NASA Artemis missions under a services contract NASA awarded nearly a month ago. (credit: Collins Aerospace) by Jeff FoustMonday, June 27, 2022 On March 23, NASA astronaut Raja Chari and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, spending … Read more
This Hubble image features four of the thousands of galaxies found within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. All of the highlighted galaxies show evidence of vigorous star formation (blue regions filled with hot, young stars). In the insects at right, the near-infrared spectrum of each galaxy is displayed. By examining a galaxy’s spectrum, you can … Read more
