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There are over 300 ways that the new James Webb Space Telescope could fail, NASA says

This deployment, which will see Webb unfold and unfurl its sun shield once in space, includes quite literally hundreds of "single points of failure," Mike Menzel, Webb lead mission systems engineer for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said ...

This bizarre 'superbubble' spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope has scientists scratching their heads

Wispy clouds of gas and a strange "superbubble" dominate the view of a new Hubble Space Telescope image. The view stars a nebula, or gas cloud, known as N44, that is located in a nearby galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. In the newly released ...

Astronomy Magazine

Looking for galaxies in all the wrong places

Astronomy Magazine

The photographer captured this beautiful view of the Fireworks Galaxy using a Celestron 11-inch EdgeHD telescope set up in their backyard in upstate New York on June 18, 2020. Fortunately, even more modest telescopes can reveal many of the subtle ...

An ancient fireball turned miles of the world's driest desert into glass

CNN

CNN

(CNN) The Atacama Desert in Chile has been used as a way to simulate alien environments, like Mars on Earth. Now, researchers believe it was the site of an ancient comet explosion intense enough to create giant slabs of silicate glass, according to a new ...

The biggest whales can eat the equivalent of 80000 Big Macs in one day

NPR

NPR

The biggest animals to have ever lived on Earth gobble up much more food than scientists thought, according to a new study of filter-feeding whales that reveals just how important their eating habits could be for recycling nutrients in the ocean.

A natural CO2-sink thanks to symbiotic bacteria

Seagrasses cover large swathes of shallow coastal seas, where they provide a vital habitat. They also remove large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it in the ecosystem. However, seagrasses need nutrients to thrive, particularly ...

ALMA scientists detect signs of water in a galaxy far, far away

Scientists studying SPT0311-58 found H20, along with carbon monoxide in the galaxy, which is located nearly 12.88 billion light years from Earth. Detection of these two molecules in abundance suggests that the molecular universe was going strong shortly ...

Sun outburst goes 'cannibal' as fast new blob overtakes a slower one

It's been a busy few days for our sun, which has produced three of the outbursts that scientists call coronal mass ejections (CMEs) since Monday (Nov. 1). CMEs shoot globs of gas and magnetic fields out into space, often from sunspots, which are knots ...

For baleen whales, meals are tons of fun - and lots of tons

Reuters

Reuters

The researchers calculated daily food intake for seven baleen whale species, tracking 321 individual whales in the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern Oceans from 2010 to 2019. These gigantic marine mammals were found to eat up to three ...

The Atlantic

The Enormous Hole That Whaling Left Behind

The Atlantic

In just six decades, roughly the life span of a blue whale, humans took the blue-whale population down from 360,000 to just 1,000. In one century, whalers killed at least 2 million baleen whales, which together weighed twice as much as all the wild mammals ...