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Detecting methane emissions during COVID-19

While carbon dioxide is more abundant in the atmosphere and therefore more commonly associated with global warming, methane is around 30 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas. Given its importance, Canadian company GHGSat have worked in collaboration with the Sentinel-5P team at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research to investigate hotspots of methane emissions during COVID-19.

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Methane concentrations over the Permian Basin.

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MAXI J1820+070: Black Hole Outburst Caught on Video

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NASA Supercomputers Power COVID-19 Research

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Pleiades' rack-based architecture allows NASA to continually increase the system's computing capability through hardware upgrades without needing to expand its physical footprint. The current configuration of Pleiades is nearly 15 times more powerful than it was when the system was originally installed in 2008.

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New Sunspots Potentially Herald Increased Solar Activity

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On the upper left side of this image from May 29, 2020, from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory — shown here in the 171-angstrom wavelength, which is typically colorized in gold — one can see a spot of light hovering above the left horizon. This light emanates from solar material tracing out magnetic field lines that are hovering over a set of sunspots about to rotate over the left limb of the Sun.

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Hubble Finds that "Distance" From the Brightest Stars is Key to Preserving Primordial Discs

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The star cluster Westerlund 2
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Ames Contributions to SpaceX Commercial Crew Missions

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard as it is rolled to the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A for NASA’s SpaceX Demo-1 mission on Feb. 28, 2019 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Third European Service Module for mission to land astronauts on the Moon

It’s official: when astronauts land on the Moon in 2024 they will get there with help from the European Service Module. The European Space Agency signed a contract with Airbus to build the third European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft that will ferry the next astronauts to land on the Moon.

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Orion and European Service Module orbiting the Moon.

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Site of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Search Project Carefully Ramps Up Science Work

Sanford Underground Research Facility transitions toward fuller site operations

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A photomultiplier tube array that is part of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The photomultiplier tubes are designed to detect signals produced by dark matter particle interactions.

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Galactic Crash May Have Triggered Solar System Formation

The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and a smaller galaxy called Sagittarius, discovered in the 1990s to be orbiting our galactic home.

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Sagittarius collisions trigger star formation in Milky Way.

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Astronomers See "Cosmic Ring of Fire" 11 Billion Years Ago

Unusual galaxy set to prompt rethink on how structures in the Universe form

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An artist’s impression of the ring galaxy.