Milky Way Scientists

WHAT’S YOUR PROMISE FOR THE PLANET? 8.30pm 24 March #EarthHour Will you make a simple change to help protect our planet? WHAT IS EARTH HOUR? WWF’s Earth Hour is the biggest movement to protect our planet. Hundreds of millions of people around the planet take part in WWF’s Earth Hour every year. Last year around 9…

In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working hard to better understand these enticing worlds just 40 light-years away. Thanks to data from a combination of space- and ground-based telescopes, we know more about TRAPPIST-1 than any other planetary system besides our solar system. A new study…

NASA’s Opportunity celebrates her 5,000th day on Mars NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded the dawn of the rover’s 4,999th Martian day, or sol, with its Panoramic Camera (Pancam) on Feb. 15, 2018, yielding this processed, approximately true-color scene. Image credit: @nasa / @nasajpl -Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ./Texas A&M The Sun will rise on NASA’s solar-powered Mars rover Opportunity for…

A polar bear cub appears to wave at wildlife The photogenic polar bear cub plays up to the camera 📸 by Greg Harvey 📍Wapusk National Park, Manitoba. A cute baby polar bear seemed to wave and looked like she was praying when she did anything but shy away from the camera in a Canadian national…

Ocean Life Healthy coral reefs 🦀🐠🐟 contain thousands of fish and invertebrate species found nowhere else on Earth. They provide millions of dollars to local economies through tourism and fishing. Many scientists believe that drugs to treat cancer, arthritis, and other diseases may be found by examining the unique species that live only in and…

New study brings Antarctic ice loss into sharper focus A NASA study based on an innovative technique for crunching torrents of satellite data provides the clearest picture yet of changes in Antarctic ice flow into the ocean. The findings confirm accelerating ice losses from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and reveal a surprisingly steady flow…

A Journey Through Time: Planet Earth 4,499,999,000 Years Ago The Earth is thought to have been formed about 4.6 billion years ago by collisions in the giant disc-shaped cloud of material that also formed the Sun. Gravity slowly gathered this gas and dust together into clumps that became asteroids and small early planets called planetesimals….