Born and raised in Vadalajara, Mexico, a girl named Katya Echazarate always dreamed of space travel. But Katya’s parents, friends and teachers all said that it is not possible for people like us. Now this 26-year-old has made her dream come true. As part of Blue Origin’s mission, Katya Echazarate became the first Mexican-American and…
Raleigh, the scientist who defined the reason for the blue color of the sky, faced a big question: Why is the color of the sea blue? Raleigh explained that the reflection of the sky is the reason for the blue color of the sea. This explanation was believed by the scientific world for a long…
Being stuck indoors or in a car for a few hours can be a terrifying experience. Being stuck in a zero-gravity space station 350 kilometers from Earth for almost a year can be quite a terrifying experience. One man who went through such a situation is Sergei Krikalev, a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut. The Mir space station…
Sharpless is following in the footsteps of double Nobel Prize laureates John Bardeen (physics 1956 and 1972), Marie Skłodowska Curie (physics 1903, chemistry 1911), Linus Pauling (chemistry 1954, peace 1962) and Frederick Sanger (chemistry 1958 and 1980). Both Sanger and Sharpless received their second Nobel Prize more than two decades after their first award. Barry…
Usually aerospaceDue to its peculiar design, temporary small tires are attached to both sides of the wings before take off….they separate from the aircraft at the moment of take off…. At the time of landing, a car comes behind the plane at high speed… At the last moment of landing, a wing of the U2…
Ten years ago today, Felix Baumgartner, a retired Austrian skydiver, set sail in a helium balloon in search of the boundaries of space.He reached 39km and was watched by over 3 million viewers on YouTube. From there, he sped down faster than sound, creating a sonic boom and speeding to 1356 km / h at…
On April 11, 1970, Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, three NASA astronauts aboard Saturn V from the Kennedy Space Center for a major mission, finally abandoned the mission due to a fault in the oxygen tank in the service module and orbited the South South spacecraft on April 17. Down. The extraordinary courage…
The bubble nebula is an emission nebula found 7100 light-years from Earth in the star Cassiopeia. (Also known as NGC 7635) The bubble formed around the nebula, which is about 7 light-years in diameter, due to the stellar wind emanating from the giant star SAO 20575, which shines brightly in the center. The star in…
Why the night looks black. Have you thought of anyone? For dark skies, space has a reason. Although many have asked about it, in 1823 a scientist named heinrich olbers also thought more about. There were two types of cosmology then. One is the Big Bang and the other is the default theory. In the…
This is a picture of the Arp 78 galaxy taken by the Gemini North telescope on the island of Hawaii. Arp 78 is a peculiar spiral galaxy in the constellation Aries. Peculiar galaxies are galaxies that change shape and size due to the gravitational pull of other galaxies. The name Arp is derived from the…
