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Key Takeaway on How Whales Die: Some whales die naturally of old age after surprisingly long lives. Certain whales can live to be 80 years old, while others can live to about 200 years old. After a whale dies, its carcass becomes a vital food source for marine ecosystems. Some creatures can even feed off…

Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, the race to the Moon is on. While the Apollo 11 astronauts were still on the surface of the Moon, Luna 15 crashed into a lunar mountain. Credit: NASA On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched Luna 15, an unmanned spacecraft seen as a…

This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way galaxy’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Globular clusters are made up of ancient stars that formed at roughly the same time from the same cloud of gas, giving those stars similar ages. Around 150 known globular clusters are…

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The battle by firefighters in France to bring under control a large wildfire raging in forests south of the country’s capital is entering its second day. The Fontainebleau forest blaze, described by officials as “virulent” and of “exceptional scale”, partially closed the country’s main north-south highway. Interior minister Laurent Nunez has indicated the blaze may…

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Back to ECF Home Advanced Diagnostics for High-Enthalpy Test Facilities Simulating Spacecraft Atmospheric Entry Damiano BaccarellaUniversity of Tennessee, KnoxvilleApplication of Resonance Enhanced Multi-Photon Ionization Diagnostics to the Characterization of Arcjet Flows​ Ciprian DumitracheColorado State UniversityUltrafast Laser Diagnostics for Nonequilibrium Flowfields Characterization in Atmospheric Entry…