Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope solves the mystery of a planet that survived its Sun’s death |
A white dwarf is usually thought of as the quiet remnant left behind after a star has exhausted…
Scientists find ozone depletion began decades before discovery of ozone hole | MIT News
The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered in 1985, when scientists observed a severe depletion in the Earth’s protective…
Scientists Stunned As Volcano Removes Methane From the Air
The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption on January 15, 2022. Image taken from a video of the eruption.…
The Ozone Layer Is Healing, But There’s a Hidden Catch
Unexpected leaks from industrial chemicals are slowing the ozone layer’s recovery. Cutting these emissions could help the ozone…
How COVID shutdowns led to a methane surge
In the early 2020s, as societies around the world shut down to protect their people from the…
Horizontal and vertical exoplanet thermal structure from a JWST spectroscopic eclipse map
We applied two complementary spectroscopic eclipse mapping methods to the data: Eigenspectra7 and ThERESA29. We used two methods…
Uncertain climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen
arising from: C. Gong et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07714-4 (2024). The net climate effect of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen (Nr)…
Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena
This study provided a preliminary test of hypothesized associations between short-lived star-like transients identified in POSS-I sky survey…