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Watch out for the giant scorpion hiding in the summer sky
3+ hour, 13+ min ago (383+ words) Scorpius is one of the few constellations that actually resembles its namesake " and this summer is the perfect time to find it. In his book, The Stars in Our Heaven, author Peter Lum (1911-1983) provides a perspective like Mr. Lovi's: "The…...
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have created a vast underground habitat for life that lasted 8 million years
2+ week, 2+ day ago (364+ words) The Chicxulub impact may have actually helped nurture life while destroying it, too. The asteroid impact that doomed the dinosaurs may also have built one of Earth's longest-lasting underground ecosystems. When a roughly 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) asteroid slammed into what is…...
Walk through the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs with American Museum of Natural History's new 'Impact' exhibit
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (396+ words) "It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." The tremendous impact also flung a mushroom cloud of ash and dust into the atmosphere, eventually shrouding the planet in a cold gloom. Tiny glass beads rained down as…...
Fossilized micrometeorites record ancient carbon dioxide levels
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (596+ words) A cadre of iron-rich extraterrestrial particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere when they fell to Earth millions of years ago. This article is republished from Eos, read the original article. Micrometeorites, unlike their larger brethren, rarely get…...