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Teachers in LA, the second largest school district in the country, began a strike Monday morning. Union members there have been working without a contract for more than a year.
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The Kepler space telescope has shown us our galaxy is teeming with planets — and other surprises
The Kepler space telescope has taught us there are so many planets out there, they outnumber even the stars. Here is a sample of these wondrous, weird and unexpected worlds (and other spectacular objects in space) that Kepler has spotted with its “eye” opened to the heavens.
Kepler has found that double sunsets really do exist.
Yes, Star Wars fans, the double sunset on Tatooine could really exist. Kepler discovered the first known planet around a double-star system, though Kepler-16b is probably a gas giant without a solid surface.
Kepler has gotten us closer to finding planets like Earth.
Nope. Kepler hasn’t found Earth 2.0, and that wasn’t the job it set out to do. But in its survey of hundreds of thousands of stars, Kepler found planets near in size to Earth orbiting at a distance where liquid water could pool on the surface. One of them, Kepler-62f, is about 40 percent bigger than Earth and is likely rocky. Is there life on any of them? We still have a lot more to learn.
This sizzling world is so hot iron would melt!
One of Kepler’s early discoveries was the small, scorched world of Kepler-10b. With a year that lasts less than an Earth day and density high enough to imply it’s probably made of iron and rock, this “lava world” gave us the first solid evidence of a rocky planet outside our solar system.
If it’s not an alien megastructure, what is this oddly fluctuating star?
When Kepler detected the oddly fluctuating light from “Tabby’s Star,” the internet lit up with speculation of an alien megastructure. Astronomers have concluded it’s probably an orbiting dust cloud.
Kepler caught this dead star cannibalizing its planet.
What happens when a solar system dies? Kepler discovered a white dwarf, the compact corpse of a star in the process of vaporizing a planet.
These Kepler planets are more than twice the age of our Sun!
The five small planets in Kepler-444 were born 11 billion years ago when our galaxy was in its youth. Imagine what these ancient planets look like after all that time?
Kepler found a supernova exploding at breakneck speed.
This premier planet hunter has also been watching stars explode. Kepler recorded a sped-up version of a supernova called a “fast-evolving luminescent transit” that reached its peak brightness at breakneck speed. It was caused by a star spewing out a dense shell of gas that lit up when hit with the shockwave from the blast.
* All images are artist illustrations.
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Five named storms and three more that might develop all at once.
It’s not that it isn’t normal. It’s that this is our new normal.
Everyone is talking about Hurricane Florence but where is the talk about Typhoon Mangkhut. I mean, Florence might be hitting states but Mangkhut will hit countries everybody. Countries.
Florence category 4 with strength up to 140mph
Mangkhut is classified as a category 5 with strength up to 160mph.
Both are going to be devastating.
Just giving a little support to the east asia over here.
Spread the word everyone and pray for both of them please
Keeping an Eye on Hurricance Florence
What do hurricanes look like from space? It depends on how you look! We have satellites, cameras and instruments all working together to give us the big picture of storms like Florence.
As the International Space Station passed over Hurricane Florence, astronauts and cameras on board got a look down into the hurricane’s eye.
Our Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission sees storms all around the planet by measuring rainfall. These measurements come from a constellation of satellites working together, including some from our partner organizations like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
On Sept. 7, our GPM core observatory satellite flew over Florence, capturing a 3D image as the storm’s clouds started to break apart before reforming.
Other NOAA satellites, like GOES, gather high-resolution, detailed views of hurricanes, letting us peek into the eye of the storm.
Zooming out a bit, the Suomi-NPP satellite helps us track Hurricane Florence, and the following tropical storms, as they move closer to landfall or dissipate over the ocean.
From farther away (a million miles from Earth!), the EPIC instrument on NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite captured images of all three of these storms as they moved closer to North America.
We use our space-based and airborne instruments to provide innovative data on hurricanes to advance scientists’ understanding of these storms. You can follow our latest views of Hurricane Florence here and get the latest forecast from NOAA’s National Hurricane Center here.
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Labor History for Labor Day
This Labor Day, dig into labor history through DPLA Exhibitions on topics including labor on the World War I home front, the Bread & Roses Strike of 1912, MA’s shoe-making industry, and the work of Montana’s early settlers!
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Selected images include:
A 1920 photograph of a shoe shop in Haverill, MA, from Lawrence History Center via Digital Commonwealth and featured in Best Foot Forward: The Shoe Industry in Massachusetts.
“Proclamation! Is Massachusetts in America?,” a 1912 poster from the Lawrence History Center via Digital Commonwealth and featured in Bread and Roses Strike of 1912: Two Months in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that Changed Labor History.
A postcard featuring a grain threshing machine near Hobson, Montana, from Hobson Library via Big Sky Country Digital Network and featured in Boom or Bust: The Industries that Settled Montana.
“For Every Fighter A Woman Worker. Care for her through the YWCA,” ca. 1917, from North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources via North Carolina Digital Heritage Center and featured in Patriotic Labor: America during World War I.
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