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CRESCENT MOON, the Galway rapper and producer, releases his new single ‘Summer Boy’ on Thursday June 4, which also features Dublin rapper Conman Conrad and pop singer Viscose.
China postponed a supply mission to its new space station Thursday for unspecified technical reasons, while photos sent back from Mars by its newly arrived rover earned plaudits from NASA despite only sporadic contacts between the Chinese and American space programmes. The Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft was expected to have been launched early Thursday morning. China Manned Space announced the delay on its website but didn't say when the rescheduled launch may occur. It would be the first mission to head to the main Tianhe module of the space station that was launched on April 29. A total of 1...
Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP (Getty Images) In the pantheon of climate change concerns, more space junk isn’t high on my list. But apparently it should be. Advertisement Two striking recent findings show that excess carbon dioxide is messing with the composition of the atmosphere dozens to hundreds of miles above Earth’s surface. The shifts taking place could turn low Earth orbit into a landfill (or skyfill, I guess?) and impact the functionality of GPS and other technology vital to modern life. Most climate change happenings that preoccupy us take place here on the surface of Earth as we...
Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, V. Antoniou; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt NGC 2336 was discovered over a century ago, but the big, blue spiral galaxy has never looked better, thanks to an eye-catching image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. Advertisement German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel discovered NGC 2336 in 1876, which he did with a humble 11-inch (0.28 meter) telescope. He could’ve scarcely imagined a photo like this, taken by Hubble’s 7.9-foot (2.4 meters) main mirror, according to a NASA press release. NGC 2336 is approximately 100 million light-years away and located in the norther...
Astronomers Found a 'Benjamin Button' Galaxy Photo: MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images (Getty Images) At 1.2 billion years young, the galaxy ALESS 073.1 should have the chaotic look of a youthful galaxy—a fledging, diffuse group of stars and gas suspended in the early universe. Instead, this primordial starburst galaxy has a central bulge and rotating belt that makes it look billions of years older. This odd corner of the universe was recently imaged by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile. Advertisement An international team of astronomers dug into the nascent galaxy’s rapid dev...