How to Make Money Online: A Comprehensive Guide

In today’s digital age, the internet has become a powerful tool for earning money. Whether you’re looking for a side hustle or a full-time income, there are countless opportunities to make money online. From freelancing to starting your own business, the options are vast and varied. This article will guide you through several effective ways … Read more

SOFIA Spies a New Type of Stellar Outburst

Astronomers using SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, discovered something unique: a new type of stellar outburst that had never been seen before in the type of system under study. Through some scientific detective work, they were able to identify the characteristics that made this outburst different, placing it in its own brand-new category. … Read more

Twisted Magnetic Fields Can Reveal How Protobinary Systems, Tatooine Planets Form

Tatooine is real. Well, sort of. Circumbinary planets – planets that orbit around two stars, like the fictional Star Wars planet Tatooine and its two suns – exist in the universe, and are sometimes referred to as Tatooine planets. Systems in which two stars rotate around each other, called binary star systems, are incredibly common, … Read more

No Phosphine on Venus, According to SOFIA

Venus is considered Earth’s twin in many ways, but, thanks to the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), one difference now seems clearer: Unlike Earth, Venus does not have any obvious phosphine. The planet Venus with a spectra laid over it The spectral data from SOFIA overlain atop this image of Venus from NASA’s Mariner … Read more

SOFIA’s Final Flight

SOFIA is on its way to a new “forever home” at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson. Today, SOFIA took off for the last time from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California. The pilots performed one last flyby of the area with a wing tilt to acknowledge everyone in the community … Read more

SOFIA Makes First Detection of Heavy Oxygen in Earth’s Upper Atmosphere

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) made the first-ever measurement of heavy atomic oxygen in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Heavy oxygen is so called because it has 10 neutrons, rather than the normal eight of “main” oxygen, the form we breathe. Heavy oxygen is seen as a signature of biological activity, common in the lower … Read more