THE SAME sunspot that produced Earth’s most spectacular display of solar energy in decades has created another record-breaking storm on Mars. A fascinating video taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft shows an X12 solar flare – the strongest type – kicking up debris across the Red Planet’s arid landscape on May 20. Video taken by … Read more
The National Aeronautics of Space Administration (NASA) never fails to amaze us with breathtaking images from space, offering a glimpse of phenomena light years away from Earth. From dazzling nebulae to mesmerizing galaxies, here are NASA’s top seven recent snapshots of the cosmos. Glitter star cluster NGC 2005 The US space agency shared a dazzling … Read more
Detecting anomalous wavefronts in fluorescence microscopy. Credit: Optics (2024). DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.518559 A team led by researchers at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus has adapted a class of techniques used in astronomy to defocus images of distant galaxies for use in the life sciences, giving biologists a faster and cheaper way to get clearer and sharper images. … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Detecting anomalous wavefronts in fluorescence microscopy. Credit: Optics (2024). DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.518559 × close to Detecting anomalous wavefronts in fluorescence microscopy. Credit: Optics (2024). DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.518559 A team led by researchers at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus has adapted a class of … Read more
Credit: NASA/Ryan Fitzgibbons What do you give to an ocean that has everything? This year, in celebration of National Ocean Month, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite is giving us a unique look at our home planet. The visualizations created using data from the satellite, which was launched on February 8, are already … Read more
Using the Euclid Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a whopping 1.5 trillion orphan stars floating through a massive cluster of thousands of galaxies, one of the largest structures in the cosmos. These orphan stars, torn from their own galaxies, fill the space between the galaxies of the Perseus cluster with ghostly blue light. This so-called … Read more
Resume: A new study shows that the brain prioritizes remembering images that are more difficult to explain. Researchers used a computational model and behavioral experiments to show that scenes that were difficult for the model to reconstruct were more memorable for participants. This finding helps explain why certain visual experiences stick in our memory. The … Read more
A bewildering number of shiny galaxies, a purple-orange star nursery and a spiral galaxy similar to our Milky Way: new images were revealed on Thursday by the European Euclid Space Telescope. It is the second set of images released by the European Space Agency since Euclid launched the first-ever mission to investigate the mysteries of … Read more
A bewildering number of shiny galaxies, a purple-orange star nursery and a spiral galaxy similar to our Milky Way: new images were revealed on Thursday by the European Euclid Space Telescope. It is the second set of images released by the European Space Agency since Euclid launched the first-ever mission to investigate the mysteries of … Read more
Editor’s note: The new Euclid Telescope images were released at 5 a.m. EDT (12 p.m. CEST). You can view the five new views of the cosmos here in our image release story. The European Space Agency (ESA) will release five new images from the Euclid Space Telescope today (May 23). And if the previous set … Read more