If you ever want to take a walk into deep space, this may be as close as you get. In this stunning animation, NASA lets viewers wander through the trunks of the ‘Pillars of Creation’ in a nebula 6,500 light-years from Earth. This is the most detailed and comprehensive video ever taken of these star … Read more
A star is dead? Keep your eyes on the sky, stargazers: NASA has predicted that the highly anticipated “once-in-a-life-time” star explosion – or nova – will be visible to the naked eye sometime this summer, according to a recent press release. “It’s incredibly exciting to have a front row seat,” said Dr. Rebekah Hounsell, assistant … Read more
A gentle voice we have longed for drifts back to us from interstellar space, 15 billion miles away. Voyager 1 – the most distant man-made object on Earth – sounds like itself again on the deep space radio network after six months of gibberish. Scientists at NASA are thrilled. “We’re back, baby!” reads an X-post … Read more
Scientists search the earth and sky for clues to the climate history of our planet. Powerful and persistent volcanic eruptions can change the climate over long periods of time, and the sun’s output can change Earth’s climate over millions of years. But what about interstellar hydrogen clouds? Could these gas and dust regions change Earth’s … Read more
Scientists believe that Earth briefly lost protection from the sun about two million years ago and had to endure the extreme environment of interstellar space as the solar system passed through a dense cloud of gas and dust between the stars. At that time, early human ancestors shared our planet with prehistoric animals such as … Read more
The Pleistocene Epoch – with its glaciers, woolly mammoths and Neanderthals – still looms large in Earth’s rearview mirror, having ended just 12,000 years ago. Now a team of researchers proposes that those hundreds of thousands of years of our planet’s history may have been cold due to a cloud in space that briefly removed … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Credit: CC0 Public domain × close to Credit: CC0 Public domain About two million years ago, the Earth looked very different, where our early human ancestors lived alongside sabre-tooth tigers, mastodons and enormous rodents. And depending on where they were, … Read more
Two million years ago, the solar system encountered a dense interstellar cloud that may have significantly affected Earth’s climate by compressing the heliosphere and exposing the planet to high levels of cosmic and galactic radiation. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com New astrophysical research highlights a major cosmic event two million years ago, when the solar system … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked trusted source written by researcher(s) proofread OK! An artistic representation of the heliosphere, the sun’s area of influence in space. Little is known about the actual shape of the heliosphere. Credit: NASA × close to An artistic representation of the heliosphere, the sun’s area of influence … Read more