The melting of Alaska’s Juneau Icefield, which contains more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating and could reach a tipping point much sooner than predicted, according to research published Tuesday. The research, which was published in the journal Nature communicationshows that ice loss from the Juneau Icefield began to accelerate rapidly after 2005. The paper’s authors … Read more
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a breathtaking image of NGC 4951, a spiral galaxy located about 49 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. This image, which shows the galaxy in remarkable detail, provides valuable insights into the processes of star formation and the energy dynamics within galaxies. Hubble’s high-resolution image provides a … Read more
Spiral galaxy, NGC 4303, seen from above. Pink, orange and red galactic long-range images. Elements … [+] of this image provided by NASA (combination of images observed by the Webb and Hubble telescopes) Getty Like most good science, large telescopes often create more riddles than they solve. That’s certainly been the case with NASA’s Webb … Read more