Science news articles about 'bright reflection'

(Phys.org) -- A brightly reflective Enceladus appears before Saturn's rings, while the planet's larger moon Titan looms in the distance.

... who conducted the study as part of her PhD, says that the brightness of the reflected earthshine varied as the Earth rotated ... earthshine from the Moon in the early evening we see the bright reflection from the Indian Ocean, then as the Earth ...

... may be seeing an unexpected step in this process. A cloud of bright reflective gas known to astronomers as NGC 1999 sits next to a black patch of sky ...

... , the décollement was seismically imaged from the ship as a bright reflection whose specifics suggest lower density materials that would affect friction. In the 2005 ...

... extra-close orbital passes. The pair will contend with extreme temperatures from the nearby Sun and bright reflections from Mercury's surface ...

... just north of Orion's Belt to find this bright reflection nebula. Lying 1600 light years out, M78 (NGC 2068) is lit by the glow ...