oxygen

How Much Water Would Extinguish the Sun?

Have you ever wondered how much water it would take to put out the Sun? It turns out, the Sun…

10 years ago

How to See Airglow, the Green Sheen of Night

Emerald green, fainter than the zodiacal light and visible on dark nights everywhere on Earth, airglow pervades the night sky…

11 years ago

How Life Could Have Produced Most Minerals On Earth

While astronomers are trying to figure out which planets they find are habitable, there are a range of things to…

11 years ago

Technicolor Auroras? A Reality Check

I shoot a lot of pictures of the northern lights. Just like the next photographer, I thrill to the striking…

11 years ago

Saturn’s “Wispy” Moon Has An Oxygen Atmosphere

[/caption] There's oxygen around Dione, a research team led by scientists at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory announced on…

13 years ago

Oxygen Cycle

The oxygen cycle is the cycle that helps move oxygen through the three main regions of the Earth, the Atmosphere,…

15 years ago