BurstCube, shown in this artist’s concept, will orbit Earth as it hunts for short gamma-ray …
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2024 Total Solar Eclipse shadow path map, built using datasets from several NASA missions. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio On April 8, 2024, much of North America will experience a solar eclipse: a cosmic alignment of sun, moon, and Earth, in that order. The moon’s shadow path will make landfall …
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With the Snap It! game, players can create postcards to share with their friends and family. Credit: NASA On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible to more than 30 million people across North America. To help kids learn about solar eclipses, NASA is launching Snap It! …
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The red line represents the best-fit mass distribution, i.e., a two-component Gaussian mixture with a sharp cutoff of Mmax=2.28M⊙, of the 136 neutron stars with gravitational mass measurements. Here we take 1,000 independent posterior samples (the gray lines) to give a visual guide for the uncertainties. The inset shows P(Mmax), …
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