According to the WMO, the meteorological station at Verkhoyansk has been observing temperatures since 1885, one of the longer records anywhere in the high north. The town has a population of slightly ...
Sisters Islands, Singapore. Photo: Stefan Fussan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Eight structures went down on bare sand in 2018. Four years later, the two that nobody planted anything on were ...
Enhanced-color view of Deimos acquired by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on February 21, 2009. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona ...
Once every synodic month, the Sun, Moon and Earth move into a geometry that puts Earth inside the Moon’s downstream sodium stream. Neutral atoms released from lunar soil have been accelerated away ...
A bicolor damselfish, one of the two species whose escape responses were measured. Photo: Andy Blackledge, CC BY 2.0. Looming is the word for what an approaching object does to an eye. The image of ...
On any given launch day somewhere in the tropics, a rubber weather balloon rises with an ozonesonde and radiosonde suspended beneath it, sending measurements of ozone, pressure, temperature and ...
A collared flat-backed millipede (Polydesmus collaris), photographed in Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy. It belongs to Polydesmidae, the same family as the newly described Triramidesmus kazakhstanus, and is ...
A body in the young star cluster IC 348 weighs only about twice as much as Jupiter. It does not orbit a star, yet it carries a warm disk of gas and dust that may contain the raw material for smaller ...
Chariklo is an unlikely place to look for a ring system. The icy Centaur is about 250 kilometres across, smaller than the roughly 286-kilometre length given for Tasmania in a Tasmanian government fact ...
Illustrative rooftop antennas; this is not Lincoln Laboratory’s LES-1 receiving installation. Photo by Francesco Ungaro via Pexels. LES-1 stopped transmitting after two years of demonstrations, then ...
Somewhere in a small museum in Montreal, on a shelf funded entirely by community donations, a piece of rock had been holding onto the tube feet of a sea creature that died before dinosaurs, before ...
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko photographed by Rosetta's navigation camera on 20 March 2015 from 83.7 kilometres away. The image predates the 28 March flyby and does not show the individual dust ...
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