Remmie Milner and Shane McRae in “Silo” Season 2 (Image credit: Apple TV+) Secret identities are fun for superheroes but not necessarily for suspicious and evasive characters on “Silo”, such as Steve Zahn’s Solo character. This childlike oddball whom Juliette discovered locked in the server vault in the abandoned Silo 17 has been tap-dancing around […]
Venus’ surface may never have been temperate enough to host liquid water, new research suggests. Credit: NASA/JPL The story of the early inner solar system goes something like this: Billions of years ago there were three rocky worlds with oceans of liquid water. Perhaps all three could have been set for life. But when Mars
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An artist’s visualization of some of the spots on red giant XX Trianguli. (Image credit: Viktor Varga & Ádám Radványi (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest)) Sunspots, which are temporarily darkened areas on the surface of the sun, are the result of intense magnetic fields generated through the movement of materials within the sun.
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Extraordinarily smooth rings of dust surround the star Vega in this infrared view taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The outer dust ring is analogous to the solar system’s Kuiper belt and extends from 7 billion miles (11 billion km) away from Vega to 15 billion miles (24 billion km) away; beyond it, a
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December full moon enjoyed by skywatchers as it shines above Duhok, Iraq. (Image credit: Ismael Adnan Yaqoob/Anadolu via Getty Images) The December full moon captivated skywatchers worldwide as it lit up the cold winter skies over the weekend. A full moon occurs when the moon is on the opposite side of Earth from the sun.
Slipher’s spectral measurements of the Andromeda and Sombrero spiral nebulae, as they were called at the time, showed these objects were moving through space at extraordinary velocities of hundreds of miles per second. The former is approaching Earth, while the latter is receding from our location. Credit: Lowell Observatory Archives Most people associate the discovery
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Aurora forecast: Will the northern lights be visible tonight? By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated 16 December 24 The latest aurora forecast for tonight help you make sure you’re in the right place at the right time to see the northern lights. Source link
The most detailed look ever at Saturn’s rings, obtained by the Cassini spacecraft. Color is used to represent information about ring particle sizes measured by radio signals. (Image credit: NASA/JPL) Saturn’s rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently suggested, but nearly as old as the giant planet itself at billions of years
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The transit of Ganymede’s shadow on April 15, 2020 is captured here through an 11-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain. The moon’s shadow is directly above the Great Red Spot, while the moon itself is to the left. Credit: Molly Wakeling It may be cold this month, but now is a great time to get outside and explore the
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On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius. The Andromeda galaxy (also known as M31) is the closest major galaxy to our own Milky Way, and it can be seen with the naked eye. Early astronomers thought it was a