Month: October 2022

Enceladus

October 13, 2022

Enceladus is Saturn’s sixth largest moon, only one-seventh the diameter of our Moon. Perhaps the mysterious sphere in the solar system where extraterrestrial life is most likely! In 1789, British astronomer William Herschel was the first to discover Enceladus, one of Saturn’s inner moons. This discovery was made with the 47 inch telescope he built….

The 2022 chemistry laureate Barry Sharpless just became the fifth individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes.

October 8, 2022

Sharpless is following in the footsteps of double Nobel Prize laureates John Bardeen (physics 1956 and 1972), Marie SkÅ‚odowska Curie (physics 1903, chemistry 1911), Linus Pauling (chemistry 1954, peace 1962) and Frederick Sanger (chemistry 1958 and 1980). Both Sanger and Sharpless received their second Nobel Prize more than two decades after their first award. Barry…

S – STARS

October 3, 2022

What are S-Stars??? S-stars are stars orbiting the supermassive black hole (Sagittarius A) at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. They can travel at a speed of 8000 km per second. That is 2.5% of the speed of light. S-stars can be said to have helped researchers to some extent in finding the mass…