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Hubble Spots a Swarm of Stars

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Hubble Spots a Swarm of Stars

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magnetic poles of a neutron star. Cosmic polar researchers map neutron stars

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Cosmic polar researchers map neutron stars

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An Inside Look at Hurricane Dorian from a Mini Satellite

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Hurricane Dorian off the coast of Florida, as seen by the small satellite TEMPEST-D at 2 a.m. EDT on Sep. 3, 2019 (11 p.m PDT on Sept. 2, 2019). The layers in the animation reveal slices of the hurricane from four depths, taken at different radio wavelengths. The vertical view of Dorian highlights where the storm is strongest in the atmosphere. The colors in the animation show the heavy rainfall and moisture inside the storm. The least-intense areas of rainfall are shown in green, while the most intense are yellow, red and pink.

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NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash

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This visible-light image of the Fireworks galaxy (NGC 6946) comes from the Digital Sky Survey, and is overlaid with data from NASA's NuSTAR observatory (in blue and green).

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How California Wildfires Can Impact Water Availability

New Berkeley Lab study uses supercomputers to analyze hydrological changes in a California watershed following a wildfire.

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Berkeley Lab researchers built a numerical model of the Cosumnes River watershed, extending from the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Central Valley, to study post-wildfire changes to the hydrologic cycle.

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Subsea scouting with NEEMO NXT

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Subsea scouting with NEEMO NXT

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Overcoming obstacles with an electric hovercraft

MIT team places first among U.S. universities at 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition.

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MIT’s entry was the only fully-functioning levitating pod in the competition at SpaceX headquarters in July.

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Study Reveals ‘Radical’ Wrinkle in Forming Complex Carbon Molecules in Space

Unique experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source shine a light on a new pathway for carbon chemistry to evolve in space

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This composite image shows an illustration of a carbon-rich red giant star (middle) warming an exoplanet (bottom left) and an overlay of a newly found chemical pathway that could enable complex carbons to form near these stars.

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Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflection

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Hera at Didymos.

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Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life

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Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life