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New York City is sinking — and it’s not just because of the flooding

Submit on Saturday, September 30th, 2023 17:11

Between 2016 and 2023, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) used interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), a space-based sensing technique, to 3D map the vertical land motion of the ground beneath New York. They found that during this period, the city sinks an average of 0.06 inches (1.6 millimeters) per year.

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Watch a dust devil swirl across Mars in this video from NASA’s Perseverance rover

Submit on Saturday, September 30th, 2023 04:11

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured video of a dust devil moving along the western rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater on Aug. 30, 2023.

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See green comet Nishimura’s tail get whipped away by powerful solar storm as it slingshots around the sun (video)

Submit on Saturday, September 30th, 2023 03:12

After surviving its closest approach to the sun, Comet Nishimura was buffeted by a possible coronal mass ejection that briefly blew its tail away. The rare event was captured by a NASA spacecraft.

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Time-lapse video shows a supernova’s aftermath ballooning into space

Submit on Saturday, September 30th, 2023 02:11

Two decades of Hubble Space Telescope data reveal the stunning threads of a dead star’s leftovers.

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These photos of Stoke Space’s ‘Hopper’ reusuable rocket test are just amazing

Submit on Saturday, September 30th, 2023 01:11

New photos from Stoke Space show the successful test flight, Hopper2, bringing the company one step closer toward developing fully reusable rockets.

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Light from the cosmic web connecting galaxies has been seen for the 1st time (video)

Submit on Saturday, September 30th, 2023 00:11

For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the faint glow of the diffuse cosmic web that stretches throughout the known the universe.

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How methane studies on Earth could inform the search for alien life in our solar system

Submit on Friday, September 29th, 2023 23:11

A new class of proteins found in methane deposits on Earth’s seafloor could help inform the search for alien life.

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‘Einstein ring’ snapped by James Webb Space Telescope is most distant gravitationally lensed object ever seen

Submit on Friday, September 29th, 2023 22:11

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a stunning image of a perfectly formed Einstein ring, which is also the most distant gravitationally lensed object ever detected.

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