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Tornado Scar Seen from Space
The damage scar left by the EF5 tornado that struck Moore, Okla., on May 20, 2013, as seen by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite on June 2, 2013. (ROBERT SIMMON/NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and the U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team) The numerous photos and videos taken on the ground after a massive EF5 tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on May 20 showed the individual scale of the destruction. A new satellite image...
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Cosmic Map Sheds Light on Early Universe
This map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with by the Planck mission. The ancient light, called the cosmic microwave background, was imprinted on the sky when the universe was 370,000 years old. (ESA and the Planck Collaboration) A map of the universe based on its oldest light is giving astronomers hope that they may be able to answer some of the deepest questions of the cosmos, including how it got started. Scientists met this week at...
Big Asteroid Swinging By Earth Has Its Own Moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Astronomers getting their first close-up glimpse of a giant asteroid about to whiz by Earth found a surprise bonus rock. A smaller moon asteroid is circling the larger space rock, an unusual but not unheard of space phenomenon. (MORE: ) The larger 1.7 mile-wide rock named Asteroid 1998 QE2 will be the closest to Earth on Friday at 4:59 p.m. EDT. Don't worry, though. It will still be 3.6 million miles away. NASA scientist Paul Chodas...
Hubble Spies Huge Star Explosion
Double-star system T Pyxidis seen on Sept. 19, 2011. (NASA/ESA) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a rare look at an enormous stellar eruption, allowing them to map out the aftermath of such blasts in unprecedented detail. (MORE: What if Earth had Rings Like Saturn?) Hubble photographed an April 2011 explosion in the double-star system T Pyxidis (T Pyx for short), which goes off every 12 to 50 years. The new images reveal that material ejected by previous T...
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