Category Archives: Imaging

Ground Subsidence Could Worsen Rising Seas in Coastal Areas

Areas of San Francisco Bay Area at risk from sea level rise. Graphic courtesy Arizona State University/Manoochehr Shirzaei)

A new study suggests official flood risk plans for the San Francisco Bay Area may underestimate inundation due to sea level rise over the next century by nearly 4 to 91 percent.

Other coastal cities could face similar effects, even under best-case scenarios.

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ASU Scientist: Sinking Ground Will Worsen Rising Seas In San Francisco Bay Area

Lucky Amateur Captures Key Supernova Moments on Film

Spiral galaxy NGC 613, where the supernova occurred. Image by the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, courtesy M. Neeser (Univ. Sternwarte München), P. Barthel (Kapteyn Astron. Institute), H. Heyer, H. Boffin (ESO), ESO.)

An amateur astronomer from Rosario, Argentina, has accomplished an historic first: capturing the initial moments of a supernova explosion on film.

Although astronomers spot hundreds of supernovas each year, none had previously  spied the bright, brief moment when the shock wave first bursts out from the star’s interior — until now.

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Amateur Astronomer Accidentally Photographs Previously Unseen Supernova Event

Toxic Brain Matter Can Harm Brain Months After a Stroke

Dye injected into a damaged area of a mouse brain seven weeks post-stroke spreads past the glial scar barrier. Photo courtesy Kristian Doyle, Ph.D. / University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.

For stroke survivors, brain injury doesn’t always stop when the stroke has passed. Now, researchers at University of Arizona and Stanford University School of Medicine have moved one step closer to understanding why.

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UA Study: Toxic, Liquefied Tissues Can Damage Brain For Months After Stroke

Zombie Satellite to Amateur Astronomer: “I’m Not Dead Yet”

Earth’s plasmasphere, as seen by IMAGE’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on May 24, 2000. Image by B. R. Sandel and the IMAGE/EUV team.

An amateur astronomer has picked up signals from a satellite NASA gave up for dead more than decade ago.

Scott Tilley was scanning the skies for secret military satellites when he picked up a transmission from the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite.

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IMAGE Search: Amateur Astronomer Reconnects NASA To Zombie Satellite

Energy-Efficient Lights Could be Making Light Pollution Worse

Earth’s city lights. Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon/NASA GSFC.

City lights drive back the night a little more each year, disrupting ecological cycles, and the switch from orange-yellow sodium lights to bluish-white LEDs might be making the problem worse.

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Artificial Light Pollution On The Rise Globally, LEDs Might Be Making It Worse