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A Nebula that Extends its Hand into Space May 8, 2024
The Gum Nebula is an emission nebula almost 1400 light-years away. It’s home to an object known as “God’s Hand” among the faithful. The rest of us call it CG 4. Many objects in space take on fascinating, ethereal shapes straight out of someone’s psychedelic fantasy. CG4 is definitely ethereal and extraordinary, but it’s also […]
Evan Gough
41,000 Years Ago Earth’s Shield Went Down May 7, 2024
Earth is naked without its protective barrier. The planet’s magnetic shield surrounds Earth and shelters it from the natural onslaught of cosmic rays. But sometimes, the shield weakens and wavers, allowing cosmic rays to strike the atmosphere, creating a shower of particles that scientists think could wreak havoc on the biosphere. This has happened many […]
Evan Gough
Fall Into a Black Hole With this New NASA Simulation May 7, 2024
No human being will ever encounter a black hole. But we can’t stop wondering what it would be like to fall into one of these massive, beguiling, physics-defying singularities. NASA created a simulation to help us imagine what it would be like. Jeremy Schnittman is an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and he […]
Evan Gough
Solar Max is Coming. The Sun Just Released Three X-Class Flares May 7, 2024
The Sun is increasing its intensity on schedule, continuing its approach to solar maximum. In just over a 24-hour period on May 5 and May 6, 2024, the Sun released three X-class solar flares measuring at X1.3, X1.2, and X4.5. Solar flares can impact radio communications and electric power grids here on Earth, and they […]
Nancy Atkinson
New Evidence for Our Solar System’s Ghost: Planet Nine May 7, 2024
Does another undetected planet languish in our Solar System’s distant reaches? Does it follow a distant orbit around the Sun in the murky realm of comets and other icy objects? For some researchers, the answer is “almost certainly.” The case for Planet Nine (P9) goes back at least as far as 2016. In that year, […]
Evan Gough

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