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Pink lagoon and peculiar galaxies — July’s best science images,…
Pink lagoon and peculiar galaxies — July’s best science images
Pink Pollution
Contamination
From fish factories
Lagoon in Chubut
Patagonian province of Argentina
Bright hue
Sodium sulfite
Antibacterial compound
Used to preserve shrimp
Juan Micheloud
Province’s environmental-control chief
Claims that the pink colour “does not cause damage”
Local environmental activists
Have condemned the move and expressed concern
The waste could be harmful to wildlife
Deep-sea safari
Marine scientists
aboard the research vessel Falkor
belongs to the Schmidt Ocean Institute in Palo Alto, California
Have explored nine seamounts
Phoenix Islands Archipelag
First time
34-day expedition
mapped more than 30,000 square kilometres of the sea floor
spotted a plethora of deep-sea organisms
rare glass octopus (Vitreledonella richardi)
almost completely colourless
except for
its internal organs
colour-producing cells called chromatophores
Space at Last
20 July
Wally Funk
Travelled to space
Capsule made by Blue Origin
Alongside
Billionaire Jeff Bezos
His brother Mark
18-year-old physics student
Describes
The “incredible” trip
Postflight briefing
Spaceport near Van Horn, Texas
82 years old
The oldest space traveller ever
She is one of the Mercury 13 — 13 women
Excelled at the tests designed for the male astronauts
NASA’s first human space-flight programme in the 1960s
Mysterious deaths
unexplained illness
seems to be killing birds
across several states
Wildlife-veterinarian Christine Casey
Examines the bodies of birds found in Kentucky
More then 250 are thought to have been affected
Multiple factors
eye swelling
neurological problems
Hubble rebooted
has three unusually extended spiral arms
tretch out to create a radius
hree times more expansive than that of the Milky Way
Hubble’s observations
were suspended for more than a month
engineers worked to fix a problem with the telescope’s payload computer
controls its on-board science instruments.
Ancient bat
fossilized tooth
belonged to a bat
lived around 50 million years ago
one of the oldest bat fossils to be found in Asia
Researchers uncovered two tooth fragments in northwest China
process they say was like “panning for gold”
could shed some light on mysteries
evolution of bats
bats were living in several parts of the world
impossible to tell how much its owner resembled modern bats
Flash floods
rainfall in western Germany
catastrophic flooding and widespread chaos
rivers burst their banks and water overwhelmed
farmland, towns and cities
enormous sinkhole
opened up at a gravel quarry
near the town of Erftstadt
thousands of residents had to be evacuated
destruction of buildings, roads and vehicles
Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Luxembourg
experienced
heavy rain and flooding
White whales
Around 1 in 1,000 orcas in the western north Pacific are white
several sightings before
the first time two white orcas have been seen together
Their colour could be caused by albinism or leucism
affect the production of dark pigmentation in the skin
The visible scratches on their bodies
rake marks made by the teeth of other orcas
play-fighting
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo
Instituto de Ciencias sociales y Humanidades
Rivera Jiménez Héctor Gabriel
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-021-02059-8/index.html