HiRISE Views Splitting Dunes on Mars
This new HiRISE image shows a group of dunes on the surface of Mars. The mound in the center of this image appears to have blocked the path of the dunes as they marched...
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ESO Observations Show Dark Matter Less Influential in Galaxies in Early Universe
New research reveals that the outer parts of massive disc galaxies 10 billion years ago were rotating less quickly than the spiral galaxies, like the Milky Way, that we see today. There are some...
OLYMPUS Experiment Shows Two Photons Are Exchanged During Electron-Proton Interactions
Thanks to a seven-year experiment led by researchers at MIT, the mystery abiut the structure of protons is a step closer to being solved. For many years researchers have probed the structure of protons...
Astronomers Discover the Brightest Pulsar to Date, NGC 5907 ULX
Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton satellite and NASA’s NuSTAR, astronomers have discovered the brightest pulsar to date. We once found a plusar, but now there’s a new record holder for brightest pulsar ever...
New Study Shows Zika Virus Causes Testicular Atrophy
Zika virus can remain in semen months after infection in humans’ body. But we still don’t know clearly how the virus affected the testes, which produce testosterone and sperm. To examine the issue, a...
Astronomers Discover White Dwarf Stars in the Disc of the Milky Way
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered white dwarf stars in the disc of the Milky Way galaxy, and measured their properties to obtain an age to the disc of at least...
Stem Cell Researchers Use iPS Cells to Find Drugs For Rare Blood Disorder
A team of researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital’s Stem Cell Research Program derived the so-called blood progenitor cells from two patients with Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA), a rare, severe blood disorder in which the bone...
New HiRISE Image Views Contrasting Colors of Crater Dunes and Gullies on Mars
In the steep slopes of crater walls, gullies are relatively common features which possibly formed by dry debris flows, movement of carbon dioxide frost, or perhaps the melting of ground ice. This example shows...
Cassini Views Saturn’s Icy Moon Tethys
Tethys is one of Saturn’s larger icy moons which vaguely resembles an eyeball staring off into space in this view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The resemblance is due to the enormous crater, Odysseus, and...
VISTA Survey Reveals Hidden Secrets of Orion’s Clouds
Released by the VISION survey, the new image is a montage of images taken in the near-infrared part of the spectrum by the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. It covers...
