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Winged Telescope Detects Martian Atomic Oxygen
The airborne observatory SOFIA has detected atomic oxygen in Mars' upper atmosphere. It's been 40 years since oxygen has been…
How Do We Terraform Saturn’s Moons?
Within the Saturn system, there are many moons which could present the opportunity terraforming. But to do so presents many…
Why Do Red Giants Expand?
We know that the Sun will last another 5 billion years and then expand us a red giant. What will…
Can You Kill a Star With Iron?
Since the energy required to fuse iron is more than the energy that you get from doing it, could you…
How Much Water Would Extinguish the Sun?
Have you ever wondered how much water it would take to put out the Sun? It turns out, the Sun…
How to See Airglow, the Green Sheen of Night
Emerald green, fainter than the zodiacal light and visible on dark nights everywhere on Earth, airglow pervades the night sky…
How Life Could Have Produced Most Minerals On Earth
While astronomers are trying to figure out which planets they find are habitable, there are a range of things to…
Technicolor Auroras? A Reality Check
I shoot a lot of pictures of the northern lights. Just like the next photographer, I thrill to the striking…
Saturn’s “Wispy” Moon Has An Oxygen Atmosphere
[/caption] There's oxygen around Dione, a research team led by scientists at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory announced on…
Oxygen Cycle
The oxygen cycle is the cycle that helps move oxygen through the three main regions of the Earth, the Atmosphere,…