31 August 2020
"Dry" meteorites unlock the origin of Earth's water
...terrestrial water." Their results show that the rocks contain sufficient hydrogen to deliver at least three times the amount of water...probably prevented any exhaustive analyses to be done for hydrogen." Not all of the water was sequestered from ...
March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
... that for 3He, for example, the abundance relative to hydrogen is around 1.0×10-5. While scientists do not have a problem with...that the amount of 3He that should be produced (relative to hydrogen) is around 10-4. As would be expected, as the Universe ...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... can be used to detect contamination for better water treatment, and NASA’s handling of hydrogen has paved the way for developing lightweight hydrogen tanks for environmentally friendly cars. The space industry is currently experiencing rapid growth...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... consisting essentially of nitrogen with some methane and hydrogen, along with trace gases such as hydrocarbons and..., acetylene, ethylene, propane, benzene, etc) and nitriles - hydrogen cyanide (HCN), cyanoacetylene, HC3N, etc). Some of these species...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
... science investigations. Observations of Messier 82, using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, reveal hydrogen gas and infrared dust hitching a ride on a ‘superwind’ that originates in the starburst core and extends out...
27 March 2017
Most massive and 'purest' brown dwarf found
...+1535 is the ‘purest’ of them all meaning it contains a much lower metal content (in astronomy anything heavier than hydrogen or helium is considered a metal). If such an undiscovered population does exist, and objects that are even more metal...
