It is only 40 light years away from us. They were spotted in 2016 by the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. This finding was later confirmed by telescopes including NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. All of the TRAPPIST-1 planets are rocky and Earth-like, making it the largest…
Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh on February 18, 1930. Until 2006, Pluto was in planetary status… The name Pluto was suggested by 12-year-old Venetia Burney from Oxford, England.
N = R*•fp•ne•fl•fi•fc•L “In 1961, Carl’s close friend, fellow astronomer Frank Drake, created an equation for calculating the number of intelligent civilizations in the galaxy.” The Drake equation is: N = R*•fp•ne•fl•fi•fc•L where: N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible (i.e. which are on our current past…
Would you believe that the microchips that run the computer I’m using to write this article and the phone or computer or tab you’re using to read this are made by the same company’s technology? Believe me…that’s the truth. If you ask which is the biggest ‘tech’ company of this century, most people will think…
ISRO to launch small satellites at low cost The designed Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV D2) was launched. Three satellites, including Azadi SAT-2, built by female students from different parts of the country, are placed in close-to-Earth orbit. The launch took place at 9.18 am(IST) from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space…
Doesn’t that sound like a joke? But this is the case This is the entrance to a tunnel inside Fort William, Calcutta.Siraj ud Daula, the Nawab of Bengal, after capturing the fort in 1756, kept British prisoners of war in this tunnel. With so many people crammed into such a small space, hardly anyone made…
The oldest meteorite that fell on earth is 700 million years old. On September 28, 1969 at 10:58 a.m., a fireball hit AustraliaIt broke into three pieces over the town of Murchison and crashed into the ground over a 13 square meter area. Being able to see the meteorite directly, it was possible to collect…
The fascinating image of the Martian surface was captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on the Mars Observation Orbiter. The HiRISe Beautiful Mars (NASA) Twitter handle said in a tweet that the bear’s face appears to be visible when zooming in on some of the areas seen on the surface. This picture…
New Delhi: India’s mobile operating system BharOS (BharOS) developed as an alternative to Google’s Droid and Apple’s IOS has been developed locally by IIT Madras. Minister Ashwini Vaishnav, V. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan also congratulated the team members. Developed by Bharos with privacy and security in mind, it is a free operating system for use…
If you put all the people on this earth, including you and me, in a mixer, beat it into a paste and roll it, that’s all there is. A piece of meat just over a kilometer in diameter. Human meat density: 985 kg/m3average human body mass: 62 kgpopulation considered: 8 billion (as per 2022 Nov)
