 | | Created for ceo.studentlike.spuniv@blogger.com | Web Version | | | |  | "A bit like dinosaurs on Earth -- they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a million years." | | | Liftoff occurred at 3:28 a.m. ET on Tuesday (Dec. 16). | | | Besides carbon dioxide, what is the second-largest contributor to human-caused global warming? | | |  | They are at their cheapest price ahead of the Christmas holidays in this deal from Amazon, for only $11. | | | | The interstellar comet will pass safely by Earth on Dec. 19, giving astronomers their best chance to study it up close. | | | | "These symbols conjure the character of the systems, the importance of their mission, and the identity of the Guardians who employ them." | | | | Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe" is for dark matter. | | | "This work shows without a doubt that Parker Solar Probe is diving deep with every orbit into the region where the solar wind is born." | | | | "The countries where we measure the largest oil and gas methane emissions are Turkmenistan, the U.S., Russia, Mexico and Kazakhstan." | | | | Amazon and Bethesda return to the Wasteland with a second Fallout season that's all about New Vegas and not letting businessmen and fanatics run the world. | | | | Trivia Tuesday: Quiz of the week | | | Think you know your Dyson spheres from your dark blobs? This cosmic crossword dives into the strangest, most mind-bending structures ever spotted -- or imagined -- in the universe. | | | | On Dec. 16, 1962, NASA launched the Explorer 16 spacecraft to study micrometeoroids near Earth. | | | The ash plume disrupted flights as far away as India. | | | | Stay up-to-date on all things space science, news, and entertainment by subscribing to our newsletters. | |  | | | | | | | Future US LLC © | | Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 | | | | |