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…
Ice shelves are one of the many specialties of Antarctica. Ice shelves are giant ice sheets that lie on the shore. They are formed by glaciers that extend from land to lakes. Biodiversity is rare here as it experiences constant minus temperatures. James Smith, a geologist at the British Antarctic Survey, once came to the…
Ganymede can be described as the king of the moons. This is because it is the largest of the moons in the Solar System. What’s more, it’s larger than the smallest planet, Mercury. But since it does not orbit the sun, it does not have the glory of a planet. Ganymede, Jupiter’s seventh moon, is…
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…
ISRO, India’s space agency, is preparing for a new experiment. The goal is to create a spacecraft that can take man to the depths of the ocean. That is, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) mission has revealed in Parliament that it is developing a special sphere to send man into the ocean at a…
The toy was made in 1974 by Hungarian Erno Rubik, an architect and professor Erno Rubik. Then he realizes that this is a small toy that will help him increase his concentration, patience and intelligence. It took Erno Rubik himself months to solve the cube, which used different colors on six sides made of wood….
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.
American astro photographer presents incredible images of the sun to the world. Photographs were taken by photographer Andrew McCarthy with a modified telescope. The images shared via McCarthy’s Instagram account, Cosmic Background, have already gone viral. It is reported that these are the clearest images of the sun available so far. He took one and…
This image was taken in 1969 by Michael Collins, commander of Apollo 11, the mothership of man’s first lunar mission. As he orbited the Moon, he reached the exact opposite of the Sea of ​​tranquility, with his nearest humans, Armstrong and Aldrin, 3535.8 km (Diameter of moon + Orbital altitude of command module). That is,…
The Apollo lunar mission has always been hailed by the United States as one of its greatest achievements. But not only the United States but the rest of the world played a crucial role in this mission. The first sightings of man landing on the moon were received and seen in Australia. The first sightings…
