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Mount Etna eruptions reveal carbon dioxide and water can trigger separate explosive paths - Phys.org
The plumbing systems of volcanoes are vast and complex. But they aren’t consistent, even in the same volcano. A Cornell-led collaboration found very different mechanisms behind two historic eruptions of Mount Etna in Italy. Understanding these dynamics—combin…
Why the years seem to speed up as we age, and how focusing on one thing might make time feel slower again - Space Daily
In the 19th century, a French philosopher called Paul Janet proposed that time appears to accelerate by the proportion of life already lived. A year for a ten-year-old is one-tenth of everything they know. The same year for a forty-year-old is one-fortieth. T…
After massive die-off of sea stars, biologist sees a surprising ‘baby boom’ - The Washington Post
Sea stars almost went extinct along the West Coast a decade ago. Recently, they have been making a comeback.
Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, where temperatures soar into the millions of degrees even though the visible surface below is far cooler — one of the strangest long-running puzzles in solar physics. - Space Daily
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has spent the past few years flying repeatedly through the Sun’s corona, the outer atmosphere where temperatures run to more than a million degrees Celsius while the visible surface below sits at about 5,500. On 24 December 2024 it c…
NASA's James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System - Futurism
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope “sniffed methane” from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, roughly two months after its perihelion.
China wants to build the world’s largest astronomy base on Saishiteng Mountain - South China Morning Post
Telescopes at the remote site are set to surpass Hawaii’s Mauna Kea in light-gathering power by the mid-2030s, scientists say.