September 2006 MODIS image of southern California taken by the Aqua satellite. NASA Earth Observatory.
The revolution in how we survey and image the surface of the Earth has had profound impacts on the geosciences. This shouldn’t be a shock to anyone as that’s what geoscientists do — study the Earth — and as we get more and better data on the planet and its surface, the better our understanding will become (and the more questions we can ask). Few technological leaps have ...read more
A new study of stars in the Milky Way reveals evidence of a cosmic near miss collision with a smaller galaxy sometime in the last billion years. (Credit: ESA)
Our Milky Way galaxy holds hundreds of billions of stars. Many of those suns were formed locally from clouds of gas — at the rate of handful every year —over billions of years. But our home galaxy gets stars another way, too. It steals them.
The Milky Way has cannibalized smaller galaxies throughout the eons, adding them to o ...read more
An animation of before and after images acquired by NASA’s Terra satellite shows flooding in the wake of Florence across southeastern North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina. (Source: Modified from CIMSS Satellite Blog)
You’ve probably seen imagery shot in the Carolinas showing the devastating flooding that Hurricane Florence left its wake. Now, check out what that flooding looks like from space — in the before-and-after animation above of false-color satelli ...read more
Skywatchers have been enjoyed views of the Crab Nebula for nearly 1,000 years. (Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester, A. Loll (ASU))
In late spring in the year 1054, a strange light appeared in the sky in what we would now call the constellation Taurus the Bull. It was a new star, where no star had been before. It grew quickly brighter, until by July it outshone everything except the moon. Over the next two years it faded away, becoming a star of normal brightness and eventually disappearing again ent ...read more
Christian Kameir, the Managing Partner at Sustany Capital and member of the Forbes Finance Council, joins the ICO Alert Podcast to offer sweeping commentary on the cryptocurrency space, including the need for good tools in the space, including custody, and why every company should be investigating blockchain (though perhaps not launching a token).
Kameir brought about unique insights on how the Internet didn’t become the decentralized structure it was meant to be and the new nature of ...read more
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