Science
Dance, Electron, Dance: Scientists Use Light to Choreograph Electronic Motion in 2D Materials
Microscope image of the TMD moiré superlattice device.
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NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP Satellite Analyzes Saharan Dust Aerosol Blanket
This June 24, 2020 image is from the Suomi NPP OMPS aerosol index. The dust plume moved over the Yucatan Peninsula and up through the Gulf of Mexico. The largest and thickest part of the plume is visible over the eastern and central Atlantic.
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Black Hole Collision May Have Exploded With Light
This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. Embedded in this disk are two smaller black holes that may have merged together to form a new black hole.
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Photo Release: Hubble Watches the “Flapping” of Cosmic Bat Shadow.
The young star HBC 672 is known by its nickname of Bat Shadow because of its wing-like shadow feature. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has now observed a curious “flapping” motion in the shadow of the star’s disc for the first time. The star resides in a stellar nursery called the Serpens Nebula, about 1300 light-years away.
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Press release: Super-Earths discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf
Artist’s impression of the multiplanetary system of newly discovered super-Earths orbiting nearby red dwarf Gliese 887
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NASA's TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star
This animated gif is an artist's concept of the planet AU Mic b and its young parent star. The faint band of light encircling the pair is a disk of gas and dust from which both the star and the planet formed.
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ESA listens in on black hole mission
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Illustration of the Spektr-RG spacecraft.
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X-ray scattering enables closer scrutiny of the interior of planets and stars
By using a new measuring method – the so-called X-ray Thomson scattering – an international team of researchers was able to prove that the high pressure inside planets like Neptune or Uranus dissolves hydrocarbons into its individual parts and converts the released carbon atoms into diamond structures. Thanks to the new measuring method, such conditions, which experts call warm, dense matter and which do not occur naturally on Earth, can be examined more closely.
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Young Planets Bite the Dust
Six circumstellar disks selected from the larger sample of 26 disks obtained with the Gemini South telescope in Chile using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI). These images highlight the diversity of shapes and sizes that these disks can take and show the outer reaches of star systems in their formative years.
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LIGO-Virgo Finds Mystery Object in "Mass Gap"
In August of 2019, the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave network witnessed the merger of a black hole with 23 times the mass of our sun and a mystery object 2.6 times the mass of the sun. Scientists do not know if the mystery object was a neutron star or black hole, but either way it set a record as being either the heaviest known neutron star or the lightest known black hole.
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020