Scientific American - USA (2019-12)
December 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 59 PHOTOGRAPHY BY DALE OMORI AND LIZ RUSSELL; COMPOSITE IMAGE OF HANDS HOLDING “MRD” BY JE ...
fire tornadoes RESEARCHERS ARE GETTING CLOSER TO PREDICTING WHEN AND WHERE THESE LETHAL VORTICES WILL APPEAR By Jason M. Forthof ...
FIRE WHIRL is formed by rotating air drafting into a pan of burning alcohol at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory in Montana. ...
62 Scientific American, December 2019 A s the plane began its descent into Medford, we dropped into the blanket of smoke that co ...
December 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 63 inside the fire tornado may have reached almost 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit. The object wa ...
The Wildfire Tornado Fire tornadoes, rotating columns of fire and smoke that possess windspeeds comparable to those in an actual ...
December 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 65 The Laboratory Fire Whirl Smallscale vortices of fire generated in the laboratory have ...
66 Scientific American, December 2019 DAVID M cNEW Getty Images town in Wisconsin was devastat- ed by what was probably a fire t ...
December 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 67 able height and spins tight and fast, but when it moves over an already burned area, it ...
A S T R O N O M Y After two decades in space, the world’s leading x-ray telescope— the Chandra Observatory—is still revealing ne ...
BLAST SCENE DEEP IN THE HEART of the Crab Nebula lies a highly mag- netized, rapidly rotating neutron star that was produced whe ...
70 Scientific American, December 2019 Chandra was designed to solve a key question in x-ray astronomy: What is the makeup of the ...
December 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 71 SWIRLING SPIRALS TWO MERGING GALAXIES, collectively known as M51, or the Whirlpool, sho ...
72 Scientific American, December 2019 FLYING JET EARLY IN ITS TENURE Chandra observed the quasar PKS 0637-752, a supermassive bl ...
December 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 73 CLOSER TO HOME AS WELL AS FINDING distant supermassive black holes and clusters of gala ...
74 Scientific American, December 2019 BABY STARS MORE THAN 1,400 blue and orange points of light here are newly formed stars in ...
December 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 75 FIRST LIGHT CHANDRA’S OFFICIAL first light image, of the iconic supernova remnant Cassi ...
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78 Scientific American, December 2019 RECOMMENDED By Andrea Gawrylewski STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION 1. P ...
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