This Could Be the Most Detailed Image of a Distant Star Yet

Written by Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Betelgeuse

So there’s good reason to be excited about this new image of Orion’s second brightest and biggest star, Betelgeuse, taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Northern Chile. Not only is it one of the crispest images of a stellar surface yet, but it can tell scientists a lot about the massive star’s future.

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Three Impossible Greenhouse Gas Outcomes

Written by Alan Siddons

With all the talk about CO2 and global warming today, it’s odd that the heating mechanism to blame for this concern – the Greenhouse Effect – is seldom contemplated or discussed. Rather, it’s taken for granted.

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Water can exist as two different liquids

Written by Stockholm University

We normally consider liquid water as disordered with the molecules rearranging on a short time scale around some average structure. Now, however, scientists at Stockholm University have discovered two phases of the liquid with large differences in structure and density.

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