The giant star belongs - or belonged - to a type known as a luminous blue variable; it is some 2.5 million times brighter than the Sun. Allan and his collaborators in Ireland, Chile and the USA wanted to find out more about how very massive stars end their lives, and the object in the Kinman Dwarf seemed like the flawless target. [Full Article...]
Mars 2020's original launch window extended from July 17 to August 11. None of the slips have had to do with issues with the Mars 2020 spacecraft itself. "We think we have some robustness there, some good robustness there, in the launch window", Matt Wallace, deputy project manager for Mars 2020, said at the June 17 briefing. [Full Article...]
DeAngelo's attorneys struck a deal with USA prosecutors to spare him the death penalty. In Santa Barbara County, DeAngelo was charged with four counts of murder in the 1979 rape and killing of Debra Manning, the 1979 killing of Robert Offerman and the 1981 killing of Gregory Sanchez and Cheri Domingo. [Full Article...]
The eclipse of July 5 will be observed in many parts of North and South America and Africa. However, the eclipse will only be visible over select parts of the world. This saros is a relative newcomer on the scene, as member 1 occurred on June 13 1984. The penumbral lunar eclipse will start at around 8.37 am IST on July 5 and will go on till 11.22 am IST. [Full Article...]
The Global CCS Institute - a think tank that champions the wide-scale deployment of carbon and capture and storage - recognises this action plan as a positive next-step in the continued momentum towards the adoption of CO2 mitigating technologies. [Full Article...]
The BlackRock report concluded that 80% of the commercial property damaged by those two storms was outside of FEMA flood zones, indicating that numerous buildings hit may not have been appropriately insured. A new study brings to light the possibility that almost double the properties previously thought to be at risk from flooding are actually predisposed to being vulnerable. [Full Article...]
Clem and his crew analyzed climate station info at the South Pole, as nicely as weather models to take a look at the warming in the Antarctic interior. Warming from 1 degree cooling degree to 2 degrees meant a 3 degree increase. Dr Kyle Clem, a researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, and lead study author, said: "While temperatures were known to be warming across West Antarctica and t... [Full Article...]
The main orbits so near to its parent star that a year is a mere 18 hours and its floor temperature is all over 1,527C. The exposed core is the same size as Neptune in our solar system . However, this would not have accounted for the entirety of a gas giant's atmosphere. (Stellar radiation at TOI-849b's orbital location, while intense, is not almost powerful enough to strip away a gas-giant atm... [Full Article...]