This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image provides a lesson in galactic history. The sparkling collection of stars is named Messier 30 (M30) after the French astronomer, Charles Messier, who cataloged M30 and other diffuse objects that might be mistaken for comets in the early telescopes of Messier’s time. M30 lies about 27,500 light-years away in
Pet owners can pick from any number of automatic cat feeders at this point, and even shell out hundreds of dollars for a particularly fancy kit. But at the end of the day, most of them are simply a scooper that dumps out premeasured amounts of feline food based on an internal timer. Jason Winfield,
If you’ve ever driven with white knuckles to a gas station while your car’s range read “0 miles,” you’ll appreciate a new feature on this portable power station. EcoFlow is building a similar cushion into its new DELTA Gen4 portable power stations. A feature called Emergency Power Mode holds back a small reserve for charging
The Industrial Revolution overturned centuries of English agrarian life, but the rapid societal transformation came at steep costs to the laborers themselves. Miserable working conditions, poor housing, and pollution all contributed to health problems among factory employees as well as their families. Meanwhile, children faced countless diseases like rickets, which prevents developing skeletons from adequately
The island of Cyprus began to form some 90 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous, with molten rock pouring from the seafloor, solidifying, and building new oceanic crust. Over time, portions of this oceanic rock were wrenched upward by tectonic forces, eventually emerging as a rugged island made of ophiolite, a type of rock
Explanation: One of our Solar System’s most tantalizing worlds, Enceladus is backlit by the Sun in this Cassini spacecraft image from November 1, 2009. The dramatic illumination reveals the plumes that continuously spew into space from the south pole of Saturn’s 500 kilometer diameter moon. Discovered by Cassini in 2005, the icy plumes are likely