Where else might life exist? One of humanity’s great outstanding questions, locating planets where extrasolar life might survive took a step forward in 2019 with the discovery of a significant amount of water vapor in the atmosphere of distant exoplanet K2-18b. The planet and its parent star, K2-18, lie about 124 light years away toward […]
Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 26C and a low of 26C. 75 Humidity. 15 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from South.
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“The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.” – Jean Ingelow
“Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.” – Robert Delaunay
Do stars always create jets as they form? No one is sure. As a gas cloud gravitationally contracts, it forms a disk that can spin too fast to continue contracting into a protostar. Theorists hypothesize that this spin can be reduced by expelling jets. This speculation coincides with known Herbig-Haro (HH) objects, young stellar objects […]
AM Light Rain today! With a high of 21C and a low of 21C. 93 Humidity. 16 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.” – Walter Scott
The sprite and tree could hardly be more different. To start, the red sprite is an unusual form of lightning, while the tree is a common plant. The sprite is far away — high in Earth’s atmosphere, while the tree is nearby — only about a football field away. The sprite is fast — electrons […]