Astronomers are excited about this one. Using a sprawling astronomical array in the lofty Chilean desert — the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) — scientists found huge volumes of water around a young, developing solar system (technically still in its “protoplanetary disk” phase). The star, HL Tauri, is located 450 light-years away in space. Yet … Read more
LONDON — British filmmaker Terence Davies, best known for a pair of powerful, lyrical movies inspired by his childhood in postwar Liverpool, has died at the age of 77. Davies’ manager John Taylor said the director died “peacefully at home in his sleep” on Saturday after a short illness. Raised in a large working-class Roman … Read more
A whole lot of tens of millions of miles past Earth lies a world teeming with lava. It is Jupiter’s moon Io, and NASA simply swooped phenomenally near the Jovian satellite tv for pc. The area company’s Juno spacecraft, which has orbited the fuel large Jupiter for 9 years, not too long ago handed inside … Read more