Supernova Likely ‘Burped’ Before Exploding

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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The slow fade of radioactive elements following a supernova allows astrophysicists to study them at length. But the universe is packed full of flash-in-the pan transient events lasting only a brief time, so quick and hard to study they remain a mystery.

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Life in the Clouds for Venus?

Written by Sanjay Limaye University of Wisconsin–Madison


Image from the Akatsuki Orbiter, built by Institute of Space and Astronautical Science/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists have turned over all sorts of rocks. Mars, for example, has geological features that suggest it once had — and still has — subsurface liquid water, an almost sure prerequisite for life. Scientists have also eyed Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus as well as Jupiter’s moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto as possible havens for life in the oceans under their icy crusts.

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UK Weather Dependent Renewable Energy installations / capacity % / costs: 2017

Written by Ed Hoskins

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