Friday, September 23, 2022

Why does Earth have Continents?

09/23/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

Why does Earth have continents?
NASA

No other planet in our solar system has continents like ours ... and it is unclear why.

JWST peers inside a cosmic spider web
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team

The babies being birthed by this Tarantula aren’t as terrifying as you might expect.

Blue Origin's rocket booster failed, but its escape system prevailed
Blue Origin

The company's New Shepard rocket was short of its planned suborbital trajectory when the capsule was ejected.

SPACE AND BEYOND BOX
SETI: Why extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to be artificial than biological
sdecoret/Shutterstock

Organic human-level intelligence may be just a brief interlude in human history before the machines take over.

Welcome to the Universe┬а
Ask Astro: What would you see if you were standing on the Moon as Earth is eclipsing the Sun?
NASA/JSC

Earth can eclipse the Sun as seen from the Moon. What would this look like to lunar observers?

OBSERVING

THE SKY THIS WEEK
NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you. Updated Friday morning at 9 A.M. Central. 

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A humble Bode
Patrick Winkler from Traiskirchen, Austria

Bode's Galaxy (M81) is a prototypical spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in Ursa Major. This LRGB image represents 7.25 hours of exposure with a 16-inch scope.

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