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4 new elements added to the periodic table

The seventh row of the Periodic Table of Elements is now complete, rendering all textbooks out of date. The discovered elements don’t have permanent names yet, but their atomic numbers are 113, 115, 117 and 118.

Livermore Lab scientists and international collaborators have officially discovered three of the four new elements: 115, 117 and 118. The illustration above is of 117, tentatively named ununseptium or Uus.

The new elements’ existence was confirmed by further experiments that reproduced them — however briefly. Element 113, for instance, exists for less than a thousandth of a second.

Learn more about the new elements

The Waitomo Glowworm Caves attraction is a cave on the North Island of New Zealand, known for its population of glowworms, Arachnocampa luminosa. This species is found exclusively in New Zealand.

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Auroras and the Magnetosphere of Jupiter

(via APOD; Illustration Credit: JAXA; Inset Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Chandra, Hubble )

Jupiter has auroras. Like near the Earth, the magnetic field of our Solar System’s largest planet compresses when impacted by a gust of charged particles from the Sun. This magnetic compression funnels charged particles towards Jupiter’s poles and down into the atmosphere. There, electrons are temporarily excited or knocked away from atmospheric gases, after which, when de-exciting or recombining with atmospheric ions, auroral light is emitted. The featured illustration portrays the magnificent magnetosphere around Jupiter in action. In the inset image released last month, the Earth-orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory shows unexpectedly powerful X-ray light emitted by Jovian auroras, depicted in false-colored purple. That Chandra inset is superposed over an optical image taken at a different time by the Hubble Space Telescope. This aurora on Jupiter was seen in October 2011, several days after the Sun emitted a powerful Coronal Mass Ejection (CME).

Exclusive art from a Soviet card collection. Thanks, outside-of!

Stay Classy Earth by Alex Fitch.