SpaceX lands rocket at sea 2nd time after satellite launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lights up the sky during a launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch complex 40 early Friday morning, May 6, 2016, in Fla . Aboard is the JCSAT-14 communications satellite. SpaceX has done it again. For the second month in a row, the aerospace company landed a rocket on an ocean platform, this time following the launch of a Japanese communications satellite. (Craig Rubadoux/Florida Today via AP) NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT CAPE CANAVERAL, F..>> view originalThese ancient Asian primate fossils might be the missing pieces of a major evolutionary puzzle - Pittsburgh Post
For decades, scientists thought that the story of human evolution was fairly straightforward: We and our primate ancestors evolved in Africa over millions of years, then started crossing continents and traversing seas to reach all the places we’re found today. But then, in the 1990s, researchers in China made a surprising discovery: The fossil of a tiny monkeylike creature that was some 10 million years older than anything that had been found in Africa. The ancestors of apes, and ultimately us,..>> view originalMay is a good month for planet gazing in NC
Our sky is dominated by planets this month. But first, put down your coffee and make plans to go see Mercury transiting the Sun on Monday! The other planets in play are bright enough to be seen even from light-polluted night skies. Mars will be closest to us on May 22, when the Sun, Earth and Mars all fall on a line – a so-called “opposition.”Mars will only be outshone by Jupiter, the brightest object in the night sky other than the Moon. Jupiter is in the southern sky at dusk. Being about 10 t..>> view originalPluto Is Looking More Like A Planet After All
Pluto Is Looking More Like A Planet After All Seti | NASA | JHUAPL | SwRI Pluto may have recently been demoted to the status of dwarf planet, but as astronomers learn more about this distant body, they are learning it behaves more like a planet than once believed. This frigid globe is able to interact with solar wind in a way that is much like its larger cousins. The New Horizons team is still interpreting vast amounts of data recorded by the spacecraft as it whizzed past Pluto in the summer ..>> view originalStarfish Return In Huge Numbers On California Coast After Mass Die-Off
Photo: iStock Photo Some good news among plenty of terrible news when it comes to the environment, the ocean, and marine life: Sea stars, or starfish, have come back in huge numbers along the Northern California coast, marking the first such boom since a virus killed off a huge number of starfish along the West coast several years ago. As the Eureka Times Standard reports, tons of baby starfish survived the summer and winter of 2015, according to new data from Oregon State University resea..>> view originalSupermassive black holes: Just how supermassive are they?
In a galaxy far, far away, a supermassive black hole sits at the center with a gravitational pull that sucks in everything from planets to stars to light. And for the first time, scientists knows precisely how massive it is. Scientists have been able to measure precisely the mass of a supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy called NGC 1332, roughly 73 million light years away from Earth. The findings suggest the black hole has a mass 660 million times greater than the mass of the sun..>> view originalReliving The Mount St Helens Eruption Of 1980
Reliving The Mount St Helens Eruption Of 1980 Mount St. Helens is experiencing earthquakes as vast amounts of magma move underneath its rocky exterior. Although there are no definite signs of an impending eruption, the rumblings are bringing back memories of the massive explosion that took place there decades ago. On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens unleashed massive quantities of rock, ash and debris into the air as a powerful eruption shook the once-quiet mountainside. The accompanying explosi..>> view originalMercury Transit Timeline: The Stages of Today's Rare Celestial Sight
Mercury will cross the sun's face from Earth's perspective Monday (May 9) for the first time since 2006, and the last until 2019. Credit: Space.com Store You can watch the 7.5-hour Mercury transit first-hand through a telescope, provided you have the proper solar filters. (Never look directly at the sun without such protection; blindness can result.) Or you can catch the event online; NASA, for example, will broadcast near-real time views from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)..>> view originalWas this hammerhead herbivore the ocean's first vegetarian reptile?
Scientists are gradually opening a window into the mysterious world of the rare herbivorous marine reptiles.Most recently, in a study published Friday in the journal Science Advances, paleontologists have documented the earliest known marine reptile whose diet was herbivorous, the aptly named Atopodentatus unicus, Latin for "unique strangely toothed."Not only is this hammerhead creature fascinating in its own right, said coauthor Olivier Rieppel, an evolutionary biologist at the Field Museum in..>> view originalQuestioning the delisting of the Yellowstone grizzly bear
In a house up a creek just south of Livingston, David Mattson walked to his office and turned on his computer. The retired government scientist pulled up a document he has been working on for weeks. The words have piled up by the tens of thousands, all to explain why the Yellowstone grizzly bear should remain on the Endangered Species list. "I'm at 56 pages," he said, scrolling through the sea of words and graphs. "And every issue I raise I consider to be a fairly significant failing."Mattson, ..>> view original
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