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Deborah Byrd
One of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids has a comet-like tail
Trojan asteroids orbit 60 degrees ahead of and behind Jupiter, in its wide orbit at 5 times Earth's distance from the sun. Now the 1st Trojan asteroid has been found with a comet-like tail.
May 21, 2020
Crescent Venus, moon, sun
Three crescents - Venus, the moon, the eclipsed sun - all at about the same phase.
May 21, 2020
Global warming is making hurricanes stronger
As Earth gets warmer, hurricanes are expected to get stronger. A study of 40 years of satellite data suggests it's already happening.
May 20, 2020
Tropical Cyclone Amphan
Tropical Cyclone Amphan on May 19, 2020, on approach to eastern India and Bangladesh.
May 19, 2020
Why is Earth’s magnetic north pole drifting so rapidly?
The location of Earth’s north magnetic pole appears to be controlled from deep within Earth by 2 competing blobs in the magnetic field. One is under Canada, and the other is under Siberia. “The Siberian blob is winning," according to scientists.
May 19, 2020
This isn’t a triple rainbow
It's what's called a reflection rainbow, which can be caused by sunlight beaming upward after reflecting from wet sand or calm water, in this case the water of Puget Sound.
May 17, 2020
2 views from space: San Francisco Bay
A beautiful image of San Francisco Bay via ESA's Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
May 16, 2020
Listen to the sounds of BepiColombo’s Earth flyby
Data sonification uses data to result in a sound, so that you can better perceive what the data show. Here are several audio recordings based on data from the Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft's Earth flyby on April 9.
May 12, 2020
Cool! A Hubble photo translated to music
There's no sound in space. But - working with NASA - musicians and scientists turned a Hubble Space Telescope image of a galaxy cluster into music.
May 10, 2020
Whoa! Comet ATLAS got brighter this week
Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) was getting brighter. Then, sadly, the Hubble Space Telescope caught it apparently disintegrating. Now ... surprise. Veteran comet observer Terry Lovejoy reported earlier today that the comet is brightening again!
May 9, 2020
