In 1930, we discovered a dwarf planet in the Solar System. What’s the name of the game? People all over the world suggested many names. What if an eleven-year-old schoolboy named Venetia Burney finally named the new planet Pluto? Asked his grandfather. The boy’s grandfather shared the suggestion with his friend, a physics professor at…
Blue Origin, a space tourism company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, launches a commercial space station. Officials said they expect the station, dubbed ‘Orbital Reef’, to be operational by the end of this decade. The promotional material released by the company claims that the station will be a ‘mixed use business park’ in space…
We are now rotating on our own axis with the Earth at a speed of 1000 miles per hour. We are currently orbiting the sun at 67,000 miles per hour, or 30 kilometers per second. We are now moving with the solar system at a speed of 200 kilometers per second. If the earth is…
Fried sharks are one of the oldest living species on earth today. These are known as ‘living fossils’. This is because there have been frilled sharks on Earth for the last 80 million years. Although dinosaurs were killed 60 million years ago, they managed to survive. They have not undergone any significant changes in their…
Robert Wadlow is the tallest man the world has ever seen, based on accurate evidence. Wadlow’s height at the time of death was about 272 cm or 8 feet 11 inches. Hypertrophy of the pituitary gland in the body due to overproduction of Human Growth Hormone is the cause of his abnormal growth. Although it…
Blurred octopuses are extremely dangerous octopuses. Poisoning of these can cause death within minutes. Their body is golden in color. The shiny body also has blue rings. This is why they are called blurred owls. They are highly venomous and are commonly found among coral reefs and rock formations. They inhabit the Pacific and Indian…
4000 stars are formed and 30 stars are destroyed. 16,000,000 L of water evaporates per second and reaches the atmosphere. The universe expands to 3 billion trillion kilometers per second.. 600The sun contains 600 million tons of hydrogen and helium. 2 black holes occur in the universe per second. Light travels 186,283 miles. The earth…
The general impression is that all living things that can be seen under a microscope are capable of crawling or swimming. This is almost certainly true. But rarely do some creatures have the ability to walk. This microbe, called Tardigrade, has attracted the attention of science for many other reasons. The last of these is…
Leifletcher, a research team at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, said that the equilibrium between the nitrogen and sulfur (ammonia and uranus’ newly discovered hydrogen sulfide) during the formation of the Solar System was determined by temperature and the planet’s location. Only a small amount of saturated vapor remains above the clouds….
The ‘Cosmic Silkworm’ was spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope in the constellation Cygnus, 4,500 light-years from us. Astronomers were intrigued by the worm-shaped interstellar gas dust that lasted a light year. The researchers say that the dust particle, known as IRAS 20324 + 4057, is a ‘protostar’. A protostar is a layer of dust…
