Author: Maria Gill

Geyser hides underneath Yellowstone National Park He woke up recently. But don’t worry: this doesn’t mean that the massive volcano below the park will soon erupt, according to a new study. In March 2018, after a nap of 3.5 years, Steamboat Geyser Suddenly it erupted, dispersing steam, mud, sand, and rocks in the air. The sleeper geyser previously erupted 32 times in 2018, breaking the record 48 times in 2019 and 48 again in 2020 (its previous record of 29 explosions was set in 1964), The US Geological Survey reported Monday (January 4). Some scientists feared that the river’s dramatic…

The quadruple meteor shower is at its zenith, and North American skywatchers have a good chance of seeing the tail end of the show tonight. This annual meteorite typically peaks between January 3 and January 4 each year. I submitted this year so far Less than ideal views for sky watchers, Given that the moon was 81% full overnight on January 3rd. The quaternary meteorites are rather faint, so moonlight can easily wash them off. However, the moon is diminishing, so January 4 may allow for better meteorite monitoring, if at a lower rate than it was during the January…

The smallest known main serial star in the Milky Way is a true messenger of something.It’s called EBLM J0555-57Ab, and it’s a red dwarf 600 light-years away. With an average radius of about 59,000 km, it’s just a simbridge Greater than Saturn. This makes it the smallest known star to support hydrogen fusion at its core, the process that keeps stars burning until they run out of fuel. In our solar system, there is two Objects larger than this little star. Obviously, one of them is the sun. The other is Jupiter, which, like a huge scoop of ice cream,…

Zoom in / The SpaceX spacecraft is expected to have landing legs. The first-stage launch vehicle, the Super Heavy, might not.SpaceX To build a completely reusable launch system for its interplanetary spacecraft, SpaceX had to solve a myriad of technical challenges, such as slowing the massive spacecraft as it returned to Earth’s atmosphere at near-orbit speeds. But perhaps the biggest challenge – as is always the case with rockets – is somewhat banal: its mass. The goal of the missile is to build the lightest possible vehicle with the greatest possible performance. In theory, it sounds simple. In practice, however,…

Photo: Robin Beck / Agence France-Presse (Getty Images)On January 3, 2004, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Soul He started making history. It landed on the Red Planet for the first time, and one of NASA’s longest and most successful missions began – and just Earthlings helped us better understand the wonderful universe in which we live.(Welcome to Today in History, the series in which we delve deeper into important historical events that have had a major impact on the automotive or racing world. If you have something to see next weekend, let me know on eblackstock [at] Jalopnik [dot] With.)Soul The…

CINCINNATI – In 2020, backyard star-watchers are treated to a surprise guest at Comet NEOWISE and the full moon on Halloween night.Astronomers in Patagonia marveled at a total solar eclipse, and the planets Jupiter and Saturn had come together once in a lifetime. coupling.What does the sky hold for 2021? Mark it on your calendar, because the first event of the year is less than two weeks away. Venus will appear next to the moon on January 11 as it travels behind the sun. Two lunar eclipses are also expected in 2021, one in the spring and one in the…

A Harvard professor named Avi Loeb, head of the astronomy department at Harvard University, believes that the first hint we will get about an alien intelligence will not be a spacecraft. Rather, he thinks that the first sign we’ll get from extraterrestrial life will be trash of civilization. Loeb, a book published January 26 explaining why a strange asteroid that entered our solar system in 2017 was a piece of strange technology. The object He was talking about the first interstellar object to enter our solar system and traveled into our solar system from the direction of Vega. Vega is…

While 2020 may have been derailed and some science delayed due to the pandemic, 2021 still promises to be the year of science “which we rarely see,” according to Thomas Zurbuchen, co-director of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Multiple missions will explore Mars, new telescopes will start observations, and plans are underway to bring humans back to the moon by 2024. While the pandemic is likely to delay the launch and progress of some missions, others remain on the right track, especially those already in space. Here’s what we can expect in 2021.Explore Mars in new waysTrue, 2020 was the year…

A study by the University of Cambridge indicates that the discovery of a medieval Chinese coin dating back to the early eleventh century is a real find. The 25mm copper alloy coin was discovered in Boreton, near Petersfield, and archaeologists have now confirmed that this ancient coin dates from the Northern Song Dynasty.This is now the second coin of its kind to be found in England, with an earlier example discovered in Cheshire in 2018.This pair, as well as the wealth of other Chinese currencies discovered in England, date back to slightly later periods.Both elements were discovered from the eleventh…

On January 2, 2021, Earth is closer to the sun It is in its elliptical orbit more than any other day of the year, on the occasion of an annual event known as perihelion. The word perihelion is translated from ancient Greek, which means “near the sun.” to me EarthSkyThe Earth was expected to hit rock bottom on Saturday morning at 8:51 a.m. ET. the sun Around 3% larger in the sky on a Saturday – not enough to be noticeable to the naked eye. Remember: you should never look at the sun without proper eye protection, and sunglasses are…