Today, nearly all of the gems being sold as "tanzanite" have a blue color that has been produced or enhanced by heating. A small amount of tanzanite in the marketplace has a blue color that was produced naturally through the heat of metamorphism without any treatment by people. This natural...
The moon appeared to turn red as Earth passed directly between it and the sun in what's known as a total lunar eclipse. Their perfect alignment darkens the moon, from the perspective of folks looking up, because our planet's position blocks most sunlight from reaching it. ...
It’s undeniably challenging to the nose, but that intense, deep, blue cheese flavour is lasting if you can get into the first bite. And I love how at your first encounter, you wrinkle your nose and cross the street and wonder if somewhere a pipe has gone a little bit wrong. I ...
A composite image of Jupiter taken by Webb's NIRCam, showing the planet's rings and two of its moons, Amalthea and Adrastea. The blue glow around Jupiter's poles is the aurora.(Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Ricardo Hueso (UPV/EHU) and Judy Sch...
With four dead and a mess at Altamont, Rolling Stone tries to get to the bottom of what really happened at the festival.
Planet Earth is the one place in the universe where sin can exist without throwing the entire universe out of balance, thanks to the fact it has an environment that contains it. Our environment, which sustains us, also contains us and keeps us from doing to the universe what we have alrea...
Planet Earth is the one place in the universe where sin can exist without throwing the entire universe out of balance, thanks to the fact it has an environment that contains it. Our environment, which sustains us, also contains us and keeps us from doing to the universe what we have alrea...
What color is Alpha Centauri? What type of planet has a solid, rocky crust? What color is Saturn? How do we know that the outer core of Earth is liquid? What color is the star Vega? What color is Polaris star? What color is Betelgeuse? What is the source of the magnetosphere's sol...
This category encompasses harm to “interconnected and interdependent elements and resources.” NIST specifically cites harms to the global financial system, supply chain or “interrelated systems” as well as to natural resources, the environment and the planet. ...
For perspective, Deep-Sky Objects (DSO's) (ranging from galaxies,nebulaeand star clusters) span over 'arcminutes'. 60 arc minutes in a degree; 3,600 arc seconds in a degree. Therefore, observing with a wide field of view will generate a small image of the planet being observed and not...