The location is the 4,000-acre bottom of dry Ivanpah Lake in California’s Mojave Desert. Three hundred thousand movable mirrors, curved around the three towers, capture energy from the sun, reflect it, and vaporize the water at the top of the tower at temperatures above 500 degrees Celsius. This steam is used to spin the lower…
The most powerful rocket currently ready for launch, the SLS rocket, taller than the Statue of Liberty and capable of delivering up to 50 tons of material directly to the moon when fully powered in its future Block 2 configuration, will launch to the moon with the unmanned Orion capsule on the 29th of this…
Skylab was launched in 1973. The first space station was Salyut 1, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971. But it was a failure. Later America comes with Skylab. Skylab was a huge success. But Skylab only had the setup for launch. There was no call back facility. Skylab’s main purpose was to observe the…
It’s not about your smile, it’s about the small box in your hand.That small box contains the nuclear fuel from the bomb Fatman. which killed about 75,000 people in Nagasaki.
Let us not forget that in 2020 and 2021, China’s Long March 5 Rocket’s Core Stages re-entered the Earth threatening orbit after launch Such a situation may arise again. Wentian, the second module of the Chinese Space Station, will be launched today (25-07-2022). The 23 ton Wentian, which will be the 5 B configuration of…
Hydrogen was everywhere at the beginning of the universe, ??.??% of all matter. Call it God or the Creator because everything came from it. ??% of the current universe is hydrogen. ??% helium and the remaining two percent is everything else. A central concept in science fiction novels is the collection and fueling of hydrogen…
Ten thousand years ago you needed a woolen blanket if you wanted to go outside in the hot summer and midday. Because you are in the ice age then. The giants of the ice age that used to live with humans at that time were the woolly mammoths with long tusks. They were found in…
NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across, blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star. This beautiful telescopic view combines a composite color image with narrow band data that isolates light from hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the wind-blown nebula. The oxygen atoms produce the…
You don’t need to be an expert in science to understand that black holes often pull things in rather than spit them out. However, NASA has just discovered something quite weird around the supermassive black hole Markarian 335. Two NASA satellite telescopes, including the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), witnessed a black hole’s corona being…
Which is the farthest object we know of in the solar system, a planetary system consisting of Earth? Many would answer that Pluto, once a planet and now a dwarf planet, is wrong. There are objects in the Solar System beyond Pluto. The dwarf planet Far Far Out now has the reputation of being the…
