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Artist impression of a large, rocky body impacting a planet-sized rocky world. Bursts of light and heat are released at the point of impact with lines suggesting motion and destruction from the violent impact.
Impacting Theories of the Early EarthMarch 9, 2018
A distinctive blue bubble appears to encircle the star WR 31, and is a Wolf–Rayet nebula, an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other gases. It is created when stellar winds interact with the outer layers of hydrogen ejected by the star.
A Wolf-Rayet Bubble and the Early Solar SystemMarch 7, 2018
There are a plethora of journals publishing scientific results relevant to astrobiology. It is important to seek advice from your advisors and colleagues so that you can make an educated choice when publishing your data.
Scientific Publishing in the Age of Open AccessMarch 6, 2018
Northern Lights at a latitude of about 70 degrees north, well within the Arctic Circle. These photos were taken about 30 miles from the town of Alta.
The Northern Lights (Part Two)March 6, 2018
Landsat 7 image of Salar de Atacama from March 21, 2002. The Salt Pan is mostly a grey-green with some white and cyan. Bare ground and rock range from tan and brown to green and dark grey. Snow is white and vegetation is red.
Ecosystems of a High Altitude, Hypersaline LakeMarch 5, 2018
Noah Planavsky examines sedimentary rocks (diamictite) in Northern Norway that were deposited in the aftermath of one of the widespread 'Snowball Earth' glacial events.
Noah Planavsky Selected for the 2018 F. W. Clarke AwardMarch 2, 2018
Ancient Noachian rocks on Mars are mapped in light gray with valley networks colored in blue tones and surface clays marked in yellow.
Clay Formation Study Leads to New Model for Early Martian ClimateMarch 2, 2018
Discovery image of the exoplanet 51 Eridani b taken in the near-infrared light with the Gemini Planet Imager on Dec. 21, 2014. The bright central star has been mostly removed to enable the detection of the million-times fainter planet.
The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet SurveyFeb. 28, 2018
This mosaic of images from the Surface Stereo Imager camera on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows several trenches dug by Phoenix, plus a corner of the spacecraft's deck.
Sample Collection is HardFeb. 27, 2018
Participants at the third annual meeting of the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) Origins Network (EON).
Third Meeting of the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) Origins Network (EON)Feb. 26, 2018
A star emerges from its natal cloud of gas and dust in this tantalizing portrait of RY Tauri, a small stellar nursery at the edge of the Taurus molecular cloud.
Disk Masses from ALMA Continuum ObservationsFeb. 26, 2018
"Fresh monomers were fed to the polymer/monomer mixture periodically by an automated “day–night machine” that was designed to simulate wet–dry cycles that would have been common on the prebiotic Earth."
Making Polymers in a Day-Night MachineFeb. 23, 2018
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