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Skywatchers are in for a treat in April when the super pink moon, the biggest supermoon of 2020, lights up the night sky.The April full moon is the closest supermoon of the year, which means that it is the largest, according to EarthSky.“That’s because this full moon more closely coincides with lunar perigee – the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research from University of California, Davis, suggests that parents should delay introducing their children to any screen media, as well as limit preschool-age children's use of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets. The research was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics this week. Over a two-and-a-half-year…

I know you’re Googling “flocculent” right now, unless you happen to be a chemist, or maybe a home brewer. You could spend each day of your life staring at a different galaxy, and you’d never even come remotely close to seeing even a tiny percentage of all the galaxies in the Universe. Of course, nobody…

Italy's Virgo gravitational-wave detector has been forced to shut down.Credit: Claudio Giovannini/AFP/Getty The vast, sparsely populated Argentinian Pampas would seem ideal for social distancing. In the Mendoza region, the Pierre Auger Observatory near Malargue consists of more than 1,600 car-sized plastic tanks filled with water, scattered across some 3,000 square kilometres of land that is…

The heart of the Crab nebula, which might have met its end via the processes outlined in the story below.Image: NASA and ESA; Acknowledgment: J. Hester (ASU) and M. Weisskopf (NASA/MSFCSome stars have the element neon to thank for their ultimate, explosive demise, according to astrophysical research.Astronomers love studying the life cycles of stars, including…

Images captured by two satellites show the Aurora Borealis flowing across North America early Tuesday, March 31.The black-and-white photos show the bright dancing lights captured by the polar-orbiting tag-team NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP, the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said in a Facebook post.“Look how light from the Aurora Borealis…

Astronomers believe they have discovered the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, according to a new study.The research, which can be read on the arXiv repository, notes there is a measurement that was discovered that could give us the exact dimensions of the galaxy, as well as how many galaxies surround ours."Using the current dwarf…

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Comet Y4 Could Be Bright Spot for Washington, Oregon Coasts - Portland to Seattle Published 03/31/2020 at 6:44 AM PDT By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff (Portland, Oregon) – Those on the Washington coast and Oregon coast as well as inland places like Seattle, Portland, Eugene and Tacoma may get to see plenty in the…

In 1939, Elsie Kokes graduated at the top of her class at Catholic University of America, but she struggled to find steady employment as a chemist—because she was a woman. Today, her great-niece, anthropologist Christina Warinner, has developed groundbreaking techniques for studying ancient DNA, teaches at Harvard University, and leads a research group at the…

On July 21, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to step foot on the lunar surface. He was joined shortly after by his colleague Buzz Aldrin, before the pair buried the US flag into the surface and brought an end to the Space Race. For years conspiracy theorists have claimed…

(CNN)When NASA astronauts return to the moon in 2024, they'll need a lunar base that allows them to stay on the surface. And the astronauts may build their base using something readily available: their urine.As part of NASA's Artemis program, the first woman and next man on the moon will be landing at the lunar…

This compound graphic shows a view of the sky in ultra-high energy gamma rays. The arrows indicate the four sources of gamma rays with energies over 100 TeV from within our galaxy (courtesy of the HAWC collaboration) imposed over a photo of the HAWC Observatory’s 300 large water tanks. The tanks contain sensitive light detectors…

We live inside the Milky Way galaxy, and that's a problem. For scientists, that is, who want to understand how big our galaxy is. That's hard to answer! Because we're inside it, for example, a lot of it is blocked from view by opaque clouds of dust. Also, it can be difficult to get a…

Locations of SGR J1935+2154 bursts detected with GBM. The magnetar position is marked with an orange circle with a cross. Open circles and triangles represent triggered and un-triggered bursts, respectively. Credit: Lin et al., 2020. Using NASA's Fermi and Swift spacecraft, astronomers have investigated SGR J1935+2154, the most recurring transient magnetar known to date. The…