Category: Science
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2017 Was Record Setting for Warmth According to NASA and NOAA
Recently, both NASA and NOAA have come out with separate reports regarding  2017’s record-setting warmth. Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2017 ranked as the second warmest since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA. Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, globally averaged temperatures in 2017 were 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.90 degrees Celsius) warmer than the…
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Fireball Spotted Over Michigan!
Residents of Michigan and a few neighboring states witnessed a brilliant fireball light up the night sky on Tuesday, January 16, 2018. According to the United States Geological Survey, the meteor also caused what is the equivalent of a magnitude 2.0 earthquake. So far there were 398 reports of the fireball, according to the American…
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Phoenix Sets New Goal to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
After unanimous approval by the city council, the city of Phoenix has set a new ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2012 levels by 2025. The plan is to cut carbon pollution from residents and businesses, continuing the City’s focus on sustainability over the last several years. This reduction goal…
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First Images of an Actual Black Hole Coming Soon!
An international collaboration of scientists who are with the Event Horizon Telescope, an Earth size telescope that are set at array sites around the globe has a goal of capturing the first direct images of a black hole. The images will be reported on shipment of hard drives from the South Pole they are now busily…
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Fast Radio Bursts Mystery Unfolds
January 10, 2018 Washington DC At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Astronomers reported on their recent studies of a mysterious source of fast radio bursts from a source three billion light-years away, known as FRB 121102. According to the scientists, the discovery suggests that the strange source is in the close vicinity of a massive…
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Electric-Blue Clouds Over Antarctica
There’s an electric blue glow in the skies above Antarctica. The strange glow is coming from noctilucent clouds. That’s according to recent images from NASA’s AIM spacecraft (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere), which monitors these clouds for the whole Earth. The season for night-shining clouds in the Southern Hemisphere is November to April, so they…
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What is a Snowflake?
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size, and may have amalgamated with others, then falls through the Earth’s atmosphere as snow. Each flake nucleates around a dust particle in supersaturated air masses by attracting supercooled cloud water droplets, which freeze and accrete in crystal form. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity zones in the atmosphere, such that individual…
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Sikorsky S-92® Featured in New Science Channel Series “Mega Machines”
STRATFORD, Conn., Jan. 2, 2018 — The S-92® helicopter produced by Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), takes center stage in the debut of the new Science Channel series “Mega Machines.” This debut episode airs Thursday, Jan. 4, at 10 p.m. EST/PST on the Science Channel. The engineering-focused show highlights the robust design and reliability…
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SUPERMOON January 1, 2018
First Supermoon of the new year is slated as the largest in 2018. I caught it at moonrise.
