Category: Science

Astronomers at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab made the first confirmed detection of a star system that will one day form a kilonova, an ultra-powerful and gold-producing explosion created by merging neutron stars. Researchers said on Tuesday that they used data from the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile to uncover …

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Bright multi-colored clouds shining in the night sky above Mount Jökultindur in Iceland on Jan. 25. (Image credit: Jónína Guðrún Óskarsdóttir) (opens in new tab) The dark skies in the Arctic Circle recently shone with ethereal multi-colored light. But this jaw-dropping spectacle was not caused by auroras. Instead, the iridescent rainbows were caused by clouds …

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Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter A green comet that was last visible 50,000 years ago has finally returned to the night’s sky. Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will be visible tonight, and every night this week, for people in the Northern …

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SCIENTISTS have put alligator DNA in catfish to make them live longer. Millions of fish are harvested across the world each year, but nearly half are killed due to diseases. 1 Scientists have put alligator DNA in catfish to make them live longerCredit: Jam Press/Auburn University However, studies have found that by inserting alligator genes …

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Do you ever stop and wonder what the ground beneath your feet looked like eons ago? With the Ancient Earth Map, you can do just that. Enter your address and see your exact location the way it was at the time of dinosaurs or earlier. The interactive site also walks you through the planet’s stunning …

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A strange spiral was caught on video over Hawaii on Jan. 18. The official Twitter account of the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea, an optical-infrared telescope operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, guessed what the source of the phenomenon might be. “On Jan 18, 2023 (HST), the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera captured a mysterious flying …

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