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Lightning can make energy waves that travel shockingly far into space

Lightning strikes near Earth give rise to electromagnetic waves called 鈥渨histlers鈥� that can carry energy high enough above our planet to pose a risk to satellites and astronauts

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How Einstein was both right and wrong about gravitational waves

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The best new science fiction books of August 2024

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Space travel may make muscles age extremely quickly

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Universe鈥檚 missing matter may be explained by galaxies leaking gas

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Ariane 6 rocket launch: What is it and when is it happening?

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HY0AKX Little green alien and welcome sign welcomes visitors to a business in Roswell, New Mexico

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Why our location in the Milky Way is perfect for finding alien life

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https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2022/07/Stephan_s_Quintet_NIRCam_and_MIRI_imaging Stephan?s Quintet ? NIRCam and MIRI imaging An enormous mosaic of Stephan?s Quintet is the largest image to date from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, covering about one-fifth of the Moon?s diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The visual grouping of five galaxies was captured by Webb?s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). With its powerful, infrared vision and extremely high spatial resolution, Webb shows never-before-seen details in this galaxy group. Sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and starburst regions of fresh star birth grace the image. Sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars are being pulled from several of the galaxies due to gravitational interactions. Most dramatically, Webb?s MIRI instrument captures huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, smashes through the cluster. These regions surrounding the central pair of galaxies are shown in the colours red and gold. This composite NIRCam-MIRI image uses two of the three MIRI filters to best show and differentiate the hot dust and structure within the galaxy. MIRI sees a distinct difference in colour between the dust in the galaxies versus the shock waves between the interacting galaxies. The image processing specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore opted to highlight that difference by giving MIRI data the distinct yellow and orange colours, in contrast to the blue and white colours assigned to stars at NIRCam?s wavelengths.

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How big is the universe? The shape of space-time could tell us

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Titan as snapped by NASA's Cassini spacecraft showing the sun glinting off of the moon's north polar seas

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Saturn’s moon Titan is experiencing coastal erosion from methane seas

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Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?

The New Horizons mission to Pluto, now zooming out of the Kuiper belt, has made a discovery that could upend what we know about where the solar system ends

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Astronaut medical records reveal the health toll of space travel

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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Why are there so many rogue planets and what do they look like?

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We are about to hear echoes in the fabric of space for the first time

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