This next week, before dawn, watch as the red planet Mars sweeps by the Zubenelgenubi, the constellation Libra’s alpha star. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/mars-zubenelgenubi-conjunction-december-12…
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Chennai engineer helped find India’s Vikram lander
In September, India hoped to become the 4th nation to soft land on the moon successfully with its Chandrayaan 2 mission. Moments before touchdown, the mission’s Vikram lander crashed. Now the lander has been found again. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/chennai-engineer-helps-nasa-find-vikram-lander…
Science around the planet uses images of Earth from the space station
Artificial lighting at night affects the behavior of urban wildlife, according to a recent study published in Nature Scientific Reports, which examined animals in the laboratory and the field. The researchers mapped light levels in the city of Chicago using publicly available images of Earth taken by astronauts from the International Space Station. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-12-science-planet-images-earth-space.html…
Awesome nightscape photos from New Mexico’s Very Large Array
Observatories make great locales for nightscape photography. Tips from an astrophotographer’s trip to the Very Large Array in New Mexico to help you plan an observatory astrophotography adventure – plus awesome photos. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/nightscape-photos-very-large-array-vla-observatory…
Apple To Remove Vaping Apps From Store
Amid growing health concerns over e-cigarettes, Apple will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from its mobile App Store this morning, Axios reports. From a report: The move comes after at least 42 people have died from vaping-related lung illness, per the CDC. Most of those people had been using cartridges containing THC, though some exclusively used nicotine cartridges. The company has…
Is daylight time worth the trouble?
This is the weekend we “fall back” here in the U.S. Are you glad? Sad? Mad? Advocates say daylight time saves energy and wins wars. Studies show injuries and illnesses rise when clocks change. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/is-daylight-saving-time-worth-the-trouble…
MIT Taught Self-Driving Cars To See Around Corners With Shadows
Researchers from MIT have developed a system that could help cars prevent collisions by, essentially, looking around corners. They call it ShadowCam. ExtremeTech reports: ShadowCam uses a sequence of four video frames from a camera pointed at the region just ahead of the car. The AI maps changes in light intensity over time, and specific changes can indicate another vehicle is…
Summer Triangle and galactic equator
You can use the Summer Triangle – and the constellation Cygnus the Swan – to locate the edgewise disk of our Milky Way galaxy. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/use-summer-triangle-to-locate-flat-plane-of-milky-way…
This weekend’s Full Hunter’s Moon
The legacy of the Harvest and Hunter’s Moons are the grand procession of moonlit nights in the season of waning daylight. In 2019, watch for the full, or nearly full moon, around October 11, 12, 13 and maybe even 14. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/full-hunters-moon-from-dusk-till-dawn…
Scientists start mapping universe’s hidden web
Maps of the long filaments of gas that hold the universe together might one day help trace and unveil dark matter. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/map-universe-hidden-web-dark-matter…