IN NETFLIX doomsday comedy "Don't Look Up", two scientists must convince the world that a planet-destroying asteroid is headed for Earth.
Much like in the movie, the survival of humanity during such an event really does fall into the hands of a few brave individuals – including Jay Tate.
Pennsylvania Loud Sonic Boom And Tremble Was A 30 Ton TNT Meteor, NASA
New Year was drawing close in Pennsylvania when residents heard a loud sonic boom, and their house trembled. Days later, NASA confirmed the event was a meteor. The difference between a meteor and a meteorite is that the meteor burns up in the atmosphere, and the other hits the planet's
Meteors and meteor showers are common and followed by astronomers and the public. Some, like the Perseids Meteor shower , can be seen every year. Other meteors, meteorites, and asteroids surprise even the most watchful eyes of NASA despite all their technology designed to track them.
Jonah Goldberg: As far as political satire goes, 'Don't Look Up' fails in more ways than one |
Not even Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence can save "Don't Look Up," which gets the media, politics and the effect of climate change wrong.
Meryl Streep (bottom right) is entertaining as a Trump-ish president, but even she can't save "Don't Look Up," which gets the media, politics and the effect of climate change wrong.
UArizona leads nation in astronomy research spending
Most of that goes toward the university's contributions to developing NASA planetary missions and the research behind them.
Professor Mark Marley graduated from UArizona before working at NASA for 20 years. Last year, he returned to campus to become head of the school's Department of Planetary Sciences and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL).
There's So Much Water in the Solar System and Beyond It's Surprising - autoevolution
Wes Anderson Casts Benedict Cumberbatch in New Roald Dahl Project, The Wonderful Story of Henry
Hot on the heels of wrapping in Spain for the upcoming Asteroid City , Wes Anderson is off to begin filming his second Roald Dahl adaptation based on the short story. 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar' for Netflix.
A book, within Roald Dahl's short story, is found on a friend's shelf by a bored and silly playboy, Henry Sugar, whose day's frivolous activities are spoiled by a rainy day.
Comet-seeking on Cold, Crunchy Nights - Sky & Telescope - Sky
Did the recent apparition of Comet Leonard whet your appetite for more of these beautiful unpredictables? Here are five more you can see with your telescope this season.
Comets are composed of ice, dust, and rock at low temperature. Walking on one may be no different from tramping on rocks. But I'd like to think there would be occasional slick spots, clods of dust to kick and loft, and fragile, rotten ice poised to crumble at the slightest toe tap.
Don't Look Up: four climate experts on the polarising disaster film | Don't Look Up | The Guardian
Critics haven't been kind to Adam McKay's eco-satire, but many climate experts are lauding it. Here four give their views
The film wastes hours hand-wringing about celebrity culture, algorithms, memes and data privacy. But the real villains of the climate crisis aren't citizens distracted by Ariana Grande and Twitter.
The Sky This Week from January 7 to 14 | Astronomy.com
Friday, January 7
The Moon slides just 4° south of the distant planet Neptune at 5 A.M. EST. The two aren’t visible then, but will appear in the evening sky after sunset, separated by 7° an hour after the Sun disappears.
Also visible in the evening sky, Mercury reached its greatest eastern elongation (19°) from the Sun earlier this morning at 6 A.M. EST. At sunset, it shines at magnitude –0.5 in the west, 14° high in Capricornus and a little less than 6° west-southwest of magnitude 0.7 Saturn.
Does Size Matter?
To find out, the team analyzed 44 impacts over the past 600 million years using a new method: assessing the mineral content of the dust ejected into the atmosphere upon impact.
Findings showed that meteorites that hit rocks rich in potassium feldspar, a nonmetallic and common mineral, corresponds to a mass extinction episode, regardless of size.
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