Canary Islands Selected as Alternate Site for Thirty Meter Telescope
HONOLULU — The nonprofit organization that wants to build a giant telescope atop a Hawaii mountain has selected another site in case it can't be built on land many Native Hawaiians consider sacred. A mountain in the Canary Islands, Spain, is the primary alternative to Hawaii, Thirty Meter Telescope officials announced Monday. This 2011 file artist rendering was provided by Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea. Anonymous / AP The TMT International Observatory Board of Governors..>> view originalHere's how to see the biggest supermoon since 1948
Bigger in fact, than it has appeared at any point in the last 68 years, say scientists. This month's supermoon, the penultimate of the year, will be the biggest so far of the 21st century. We won't see its like again until 2034, so make sure you get a look. A "supermoon" occurs when the moon becomes full on the same days as its perigee, which is the point in the moon's orbit when it is closest to Earth. The term is borrowed from the pseudoscience of astrology but has been adopted by popular cul..>> view originalElon Musk's SpaceX May Lose Inmarsat Launch Order
Nov. 3, 2016 5:23 a.m. ET LONDON— Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. may lose a spacecraft launch order from a major customer, Inmarsat PLC, even as the European satellite operator voiced confidence in the rocket company’s ability to return to flight this year. SpaceX, as the rocket company is named, lost one of its Falcon 9 rockets in an explosion during a routine refueling exercise in September at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It destroyed an Isra..>> view originalBaby, It's Cold Inside: Mount St. Helens Has No Magma
Nov 03, 2016 04:00 AM EDT A research published in Nature Communications has revealed the unthinkable: instead of finding a chamber of hot magma below the volcano, scientists discovered a cool wedge of serpentine rock. The volcano responsible for the most destructive eruption in the history of the United States of America is literally cold inside. This is yet another reason for scientists to consider Mount St. Helens as an anomaly. For a volcano that contains no magma, Mount St. Helens had cau..>> view originalAntarctic marine reserve creation hailed 'a milestone for conservation'
The creation of the world’s biggest marine reserve in Antarctica, covering an area more than six times the UK, has been hailed as a “milestone for conservation”. Agreement was reached by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) – which is made up of 24 countries, including the UK, and the EU – to protect 600,000 square miles of the Ross Sea.The protected area, which will come into force in December 2017, will curb damaging activities such as fishing to p..>> view originalCuriosity Mars rover checks odd-looking iron meteorite
The dark, golf-ball-size object in this composite, colorized view from the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is a nickel-iron meteorite, as confirmed by analysis using laser pulses from ChemCam on Oct. 30, 2016. The grid of …more.>> view originalFinding Life On Mars Through Smell? New NASA Instrument Could Do That
The sense of smell has come a long way in science. First plants that can smell explosives and now machines that can smell Martian life.Yes, you read that right. NASA is working on an instrument, which when fitted onboard a rover, will allow it to “sniff” for life on Mars and even on other planets. Called Bio-Indicator Lidar Instrument (BILI), the sensor is based on technology currently used by the U.S. military to remotely check the air in public places for potentially lethal chemicals and toxin..>> view originalThe global climate-change agreement is about to take effect — but a President Trump could endanger it
Donald Trump. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Paris Agreement on climate change—the groundbreaking new global climate pact—comes into force on November 4. If Donald Trump is elected four days later, he has said he will “cancel” it. In an indication of just how exasperated the global environmental community feels about Trump’s anti-environment, pro-fossil fuel agenda—embodied by his stance on the Paris Agreement—this week Chinese officials made the r..>> view originalExplore the 'Jacuzzi of Despair,' a lake so salty it kills almost everything inside
They call it the “Jacuzzi of Despair.”The underwater lake, discovered 3,300 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, is a pit of super-salty water and dissolved methane that kills any critter unlucky enough to fall inside. The discovery was made last year by a San Pedro-based research vessel, the E/V Nautilus.In the video, scientists excitedly navigate a remotely operated vehicle, the Hercules, above the circular pool. They point out the “pickled crabs” that succumbed to the “Jacuzzi of D..>> view originalNASA's Largest Space Telescope Completed, Launch Scheduled For 2018
The largest space telescope built by NASA so far is finally complete, 20 years after the project began. The James Webb Space Telescope will now undergo testing and is scheduled to be launched in October 2018.Compared to its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope — which has a 2.4-meter diameter mirror — Webb’s primary mirror has a diameter of 6.5 meters. The telescope can see in both visible light and in infrared. The mirror is comprised of 18 hexagonal segments, made of ultra-lightweight beryl..>> view original
Thursday, November 17, 2016
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