Scientists predict that an asteroid the size of Burj Khalifa will pass close to Earth by mid-December. Named 163899, the asteroid is about 791 meters in diameter and about two kilometers long. Burj Khalifa is the tallest man-made structure on earth. However, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has previously observed that the asteroid could…
The universe that we can see or react to is called the visible universe, or more strictly baryonic matter. It’s only about five percent of the universe. The branch of science that deals with its structure is called particle physics. In the early days, the earth was the center of the universe. Although we have…
This karst spring is named as such due to its strong resemblance to an eye with the various shades of blue and turquoise when seen from above. It is formed by a hole of unknown precise depth, but is said to be apparently more than 300 ft deep. This small body of water is the…
The main attraction of comets is their shiny long tail. Most of a comet will be frozen ice. This frozen part, about a kilometer in size, is called the nucleus. The nucleus contains ice, dust, and frozen gases. As the comet approaches the Sun, the heat causes the ice to evaporate directly. At the same…
Water vapor around Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. This amazing phenomenon was discovered by the Hubble Telescope. Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System. The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere around Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. It has been found that vapor is formed as the ice sheets change from…
When the Earth takes 24 hours to rotate once, the white dwarf star LAMOST J0240 + 1952 rotates once in just * 25 seconds *. At a distance of 2,000 light-years, once every 25 seconds, LAMOST J0240 + 1952 became the fastest dwarf star in existence. This speed is due to its attraction to another…
Anti-matter is an object that is as real as the ordinary matter that has made us all. Do not go to distant planets or galaxies to find the antimatter. It is with us. It is within us It is estimated that each of our bodies produces about 4000 antimatter particles every day. Similarly, PET scan…
TrES-2b is the darkest exoplanet ever discovered. Astronomers have named Jupiter-sized planet Tres-2b. It is located 750 light-years from Earth.It is the darkest planet ever discovered outside the Solar System. It does not reflect light even as much as black acrylic paint. The reasons why it is so dark are not clear. The temperature in…
We are now rotating on our own axis with the Earth at a speed of 1000 miles per hour. We are currently orbiting the sun at 67,000 miles per hour, or 30 kilometers per second. We are now moving with the solar system at a speed of 200 kilometers per second. If the earth is…
Fried sharks are one of the oldest living species on earth today. These are known as ‘living fossils’. This is because there have been frilled sharks on Earth for the last 80 million years. Although dinosaurs were killed 60 million years ago, they managed to survive. They have not undergone any significant changes in their…
