The 'Double Magic' Atom Is a Physics Fairy Tale That Continues to Baffle Scientists
In the case of lead-208—the heaviest stable isotope known so far—a team of researchers led by physicist Jack Henderson ...
No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...
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Tomorrow's Full Moon May Disrupt Your Sleep. Here's Why and How to Combat It
Light plays an important role in regulating our sleep/wake cycle, and our bodies are ultra-sensitive to it. As a result, the ...
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The ‘quantum’ principle that says why atoms are as they are
The basic hydrogen atom is the simplest of all atoms ... to the difference in energy between two of these stable orbits, which Bohr characterized with different values of a first, ‘principal ...
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Liftoff! NASA launches SPHEREx telescope — an infrared observatory that will help JWST solve the mysteries of the universe
NASA's newly-launched SPHEREx space telescope will offer a complementary 'panoramic' view to the JWST's high resolution infrared snapshots, enabling astronomers to study some of the universe's biggest ...
New JPL space mission seeks to unravel the mystery of cosmic 'inflation'
The mission—the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer; or SPHEREx—will ...
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Liftoff! NASA launches SPHEREx telescope — an infrared observatory that will help JWST solve the mysteries of the universe
It will orbit the Earth 14.5 times a day, completing 11,000 orbits during its lifetime to ... expanded tiny fluctuations smaller than an atom, to enormous cosmological scales that we see today ...
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UVA Astronomer Explains the Threat of ‘City Killer’ Asteroids and How Earth Can Prepare
a target at a distance equal to the size of a single atom held at arm’s length. “It was tiny, and they managed to hit the thing with a rocket,” Squillace said. “Astronomers found that the orbit of ...