Category: Earth

Amazonian Tree with human sized leaves is finally classified as a new species:

February 16, 2022

Scientists have known about this extremely rare tree for decades, but did not have any genetic material to describe it. In 2005 a couple of botanists collected seeds from a tree in Jamari National Forest, a ancient tropical forest in the Amazon. They took the seeds and planted them and waited for one to flower….

Pterosaurs Evolution

February 14, 2022

The flying giant Peterosaurs, which coexisted with the dinosaurs, does not belong to the category of birds and bats. Can be replaced with flying reptiles. These are the first flying vertebrates. That is, after a long debate, scientists say that peterosaurs, dinosaurs, and crocodiles evolved from another common genus (from Archosaurs). The flying giant Quetzalcoatlus…

Last month, an event similar to the one in the Star Wars movie took place in space

February 13, 2022

Another private satellite has detected and sent images of a Chinese spacecraft stalling, capturing another spacecraft and launching it into the deadly orbit of a spacecraft 300 km away. The Chinese spacecraft SJ21 captured another stationary satellite, the Compass G2, and destroyed its orbit. The incident took place on January 22 Elon Musk fills space…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

February 7, 2022

Work on the project began in 2010. The Infrared Observatory, like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), aims to gather evidence of primitive light by looking into the maximum distance of the RST universe. However, the main purpose of the Roman Space Telescope was to study dark energy, or dark energy, and distant planets.The glass…

A satellite orbiting the earth.

February 5, 2022

A video taken by cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev 2018 at the ISS.

How similar are the skeletons of man and gorilla

January 27, 2022

The skeletons of humans and gorillas have the same basic structure. If we know the bones of the human skeleton, we can also know the parts of the gorilla skeleton. However, there are significant differences between the shape and proportions of the bones of humans and gorillas.But .. the main differences are:The shape and proportions…

An object older than Earth has been found in the Sahara Desert.

January 27, 2022

The meteorite found in the Sahara last year was estimated to be about 4.56 billion years old. The age of the Earth is 4.54 billion years. The asteroid named EC002 or Erg Chech 002 is amazing. The study of the rare meteorite was published in the journal PNAS. It is thought to be part of…

Cope-Echchels effect

January 26, 2022

When Michael Yon, an American war correspondent and photographer, accompanied American troops to Afghanistan in 2009 to begin photographing soldiers and their equipment there, he noticed an unusual phenomenon. As the helicopter took off or landed, the blades of the rotors began to shine like “distant galaxies” as the air filled with a lot of…

The first-ever discovered exoplanet

January 24, 2022

Thirty years ago, on January 22, 1992, was discovered PSR B1257+12 B, also nicknamed Poltergeist. It became the first-ever found planet outside the Solar System. Here are some facts about Poltergeist: placed in the constellation Virgolocated 2,300 light-years away;over four times as massive as the Earth; has an orbital period of about 66 days;orbits the…