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NASA’s forthcoming PREFIRE mission will deploy two CubeSats to study heat loss from Earth’s polar regions, utilizing Mars-tested technology to enhance climate model accuracy. Credit: NASALaunching in spring 2024, the two small satellites of the agency’s PREFIRE mission will fill in missing data from Earth’s polar regions.Two new miniature NASA satellites will start crisscrossing Earth’s atmosphere in a few months, detecting heat lost to space. Their observations from the planet’s most bone-chilling regions will help…

The first week of 2024 is expected to be a cold and wet one in Los Angeles, according to the National Weather Service.There’s a 20% to 40% chance of rain into New Year’s morning. People camping out for the Rose Parade may have seen some precipitation, but the parade itself should be mostly dry, said Rich Thompson of the weather service. That’s good news for parade organizers, who were hoping the event — which begins at 8 a.m. at the corner of Green Street and Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena — will draw crowds nearly…

A cold star called WISE J0623 was discovered to be producing radio waves. The star is also known as a brown dwarf star which is located about 37 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Monoceros, according to Astrophysical Journal Letters.The brown dwarf is too small to be a regular star and too large to be a planet. However, the size of the star is similar to the planet Jupiter which has a magnetic field more powerful than our Sun's, according to the Conversation. About the coolest radio starThe WISE J0623…

Researchers have analyzed an ultracool brown dwarf that is the coldest star known to produce radio emissions. Though not the absolute coldest, this star, discovered by Caltech astronomers in 2011, emits radio waves at a lower temperature than any previously studied. It serves as a bridge between the smallest hydrogen-burning stars and gas giants like Jupiter.Cooler than a campfire and smaller than <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div…

A new study using the Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory has uncovered intense wave energy from the sunspot umbra that could maintain million-degree temperatures in the Sun’s corona. While the finding advances our understanding of the Sun’s coronal heating problem, the mystery isn’t completely solved yet.With data from <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Big Bear Solar Observatory</div><div…

Frozen power lines are seen hanging near a sidewalk on February 01, 2023 in Austin, Texas. The freeze is moving on to northeastern states. Photo: Brandon Bell (Getty Images)The winter weather that left hundreds of thousands in Texas without power is moving north, and is set to bring wind chills as low as -50 degrees Fahrenheit (-45 Celsius) into New England.The cold front will bring temperatures to between 15 and35 degrees below average across a large section of the U.S. that includes the Ohio Valley, the Great Lakes,…

Some of the coldest parts of the Greenland ice sheet have hit their warmest levels in at least a millennium — and the amount of melting they’re experiencing has also probably hit a thousand-year high. The findings in a new study underscore a grim trend for the world’s second-largest ice sheet. Temperatures are steadily rising, the ice is gradually shrinking and the world’s frozen places are vulnerable to the steady march of climate change. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reconstructs 1,000 years of…

The Webb telescope team has detected water ice and frozen complex molecules in a molecular cloud about 630 light-years from Earth. By the scientists’ measure, the frigid findings are the deepest, coldest yet found in such a cloud.Molecular clouds are large, dark, dusty regions of space that often act as stellar nurseries, as they host the ingredients necessary for star formation. The clouds also host organic molecules; last year, researchers peering at a molecular cloud near the center of our galaxy found building blocks…

via EuropaCorp This year marks a quarter of a century since Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element arrived in theaters, where it was greeted with a reception that perfectly encapsulated the off-the-wall nature of the film itself. The most expensive European production in history at the time with a $90 million budget, there were many predicting extreme failure for the extravagant intergalactic epic. However, not only did it become one of the 10 top-earning releases of 1997 after earning $264 million at the box office,…

For all those who have occasionally wondered just what might lie behind the eternal sunglasses of the famously scary Anna Wintour, the author of a new biography of the longstanding editor-in-chief of American Vogue has momentous news: it seems that there is, after all, “a person there” (as opposed, you understand, to a robot programmed by the ghost of Oscar de la Renta). But while journalist Amy Odell has indeed found several witnesses willing to testify on the record to the existence of this corporeal being, she is,…