A composite image of the Sun taken by ASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). (Credit: NASA/SDO)
Didn’t we all have that “Parent Trap” fantasy, where we’d come across a long-lost sibling that was separated at birth? That dream didn’t go beyond a movie plot for the most of us, but it’s just come true for the Sun.
In a rare discovery, an international team of astronomers has found a star that was likely born in the same stellar nursery as our Sun. A ...read more
Meteors are both common and beautiful. But larger impactors can cause devastating harm. (Credit: NPS)
We don’t need to be scared of everything that falls from space. In fact, literal tons of space rocks rain down daily, though that’s mostly in the form of minuscule dust grains. But every 100 million years or so, catastrophe strikes in the form of a rock spanning miles.
The last one killed not just the dinosaurs, but three-quarters of all life on Earth. The effects on huma ...read more
Damage from the August 31, 1886 earthquake near Charleston, South Carolina. John Karl Hillers/USGS
Most people who live in the eastern United States likely don’t worry too much about earthquakes. Most of the shaking that goes on across the country happens on the west coast, running up and down the San Andreas fault zone or in the Cascades of Oregon and Washington. Occasionally, an earthquake will rattle Yellowstone or Oklahoma feels an temblor brought on by waste water being pumped into t ...read more
SciStarter’s very own Jill Nugent blogs about Raspberry Shake!
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Citizen science can be an excellent way to engage learners in the process of science and to address thePractices as outlined in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). In each issue of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Journal, Science Scope, a citizen science project from the SciStarter Project Finder is featured!
In the November/December 2018 iss ...read more
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