Thesaurus / snap
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They were snapped before the spacecraft officially began collecting science data.
CLOSE-UP OF THE SUN REVEALS ‘CAMPFIRES’LISA GROSSMANAUGUST 28, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSThat proved useful in early 2019, when SubX forecasts foresaw, weeks before it happened, the severe cold snap that hit the United States in late January and early February.
IMPROVED THREE-WEEK WEATHER FORECASTS COULD SAVE LIVES FROM DISASTERALEXANDRA WITZEAUGUST 27, 2020SCIENCE NEWSPeople stuck at home have been snapping up them up while the number of the consoles produced has tumbled because of shuttered factories.
GAMERS, GET READY: NINTENDO’S SWITCH SHOULD BE AVAILABLE AGAIN SOON. BUT MAYBE NOT FOR LONGDZANEMORRISAUGUST 26, 2020FORTUNEThe scientists used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to snap the photo.
A WEIRD COUSIN OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS CAUGHT ON CAMERALISA GROSSMANAUGUST 26, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSHe trekked to a mountaintop in Wyoming with a special camera to snap polarized pictures of the corona just as the moon blocked the sun.
CHECK OUT THE FIRST-EVER MAP OF THE SOLAR CORONA’S MAGNETIC FIELDLISA GROSSMANAUGUST 21, 2020SCIENCE NEWSA snap poll by YouGov after the pick found that 51 percent of voters approved of the choice while 36 percent disapproved.
BIDEN’S PLEDGE TO CHOOSE A WOMAN FOR VP WAS POPULAR — AND SO IS HARRISGEOFFREY SKELLEY (GEOFFREY.SKELLEY@ABC.COM)AUGUST 14, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTJust as TikTok benefited from the Facebook boycott last month, its rivals are poised to snap up its content should it be banned.
‘THERE’S BEEN NO EMAILS OR INTEREST’: AS THE DRAMA OVER TIKTOK INTENSIFIES, ADVERTISER INTEREST COOLSSEB JOSEPHAUGUST 6, 2020DIGIDAYAstronomers used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to snap a photo of two giant planets orbiting a young star with about the same mass as the sun, researchers report July 22 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
THIS IS THE FIRST PICTURE OF A SUNLIKE STAR WITH MULTIPLE EXOPLANETSLISA GROSSMANJULY 22, 2020SCIENCE NEWSAs the crust continuously jostles about, these magnetic fields twist and turn until they snap to a simpler state, immediately releasing a laserlike flash of radio waves.
A SURPRISE DISCOVERY POINTS TO THE SOURCE OF FAST RADIO BURSTSSHANNON HALLJUNE 11, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINELater, researchers looked at these pictures, snapped from different locations.
NEWFOUND ‘DUNES’ IS AMONG WEIRDEST OF NORTHERN LIGHTSMARIA TEMMINGMARCH 9, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSWORDS RELATED TO SNAP
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