Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) was a German-born astronomer who discovered the largest number of comets. Carolyn, the sister of the famous astronomer William Herschel, was shocked to see his brother William’s night star observations. In 1828 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Carolina was the first scientist in England to receive…
The first use of aircraft was during World War I. In the early years of the war, planes were increasingly used for espionage and surveillance, but as the war progressed, air strikes became more deadly by the end of the war. For the next war to be successful, the Allies needed to develop new strategies…
On January 3, the closest Leonard comet to the Sun will begin its journey out of the Solar System forever. Until January 10, the comet will be visible through binoculars or telescopes after sunset near the southern Pisces constellation in the western hemisphere. The comet was discovered in January 2021 by scientist Gregory Leonard using…
Iceland, crater after the last eruption of the Fogradelsfjal volcano
Believing a computer with four kilobytes of RAM, 79 kilobytes of ROM memory capacity, his wife, Jane, and their children stare at a rental boat in the distance as her husband, Neil Armstrong, jumps on a SATURN V rocket to touch the moon. Taken by Ralph Morse
Scientists have announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken. This extraordinary paleontology discovery was published in Science magazine on December 22, 2021, by a joint research team consisting of scientists from China, Canada and…
It would seem unbelievable to say that radioactive radiation is emitted from the body even years after death. But Marie Curie, a scientific genius, shocked scientists posthumously with her life as a gift. Sixty years after the remains of Marie Curie, who died in 1934, were exhumed in 1995, radioactive radiation was still intense. If…
A rocket – ??? m high, about 36 m tall – weighs 2.8 million kilograms, including fuel. Capacity to carry 130 tons of material in Earth’s orbit. Ability to carry up to 50 tons of material to the moon. Remember the shrimp movie was running here. The rocket that landed the man on the moon…
56 years ago today, Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford lifted off on Gemini 6. They would go on to perform the first-ever rendezvous of two spacecrafts in orbit.
In the Chelyabinsk Oblast region of Russia, the Big Stone River is a group of huge boulders that flow through the slopes of the Taganai Mountains in the southern Urals. The rock River is 6 km long and has an average width of 200 m. 700 m wide in some parts It is believed that…
