When completed in 2029, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will be the world’s largest optical telescope capable of taking pictures of the universe with 10 times the resolution of the Hubble Telescope. It is being built at the Los Campanas Observatory in Chile at a cost of $ 1 billion. It has 7 primary mirrors…
The space station is located at an altitude of 400 km above the Earth. What if a gorilla suddenly came there? NASA astronaut Tim Piet once proved that a gorilla can fly in space without touching the ground, even if he knows there is no such possibility. Screenwriter Spence Todd shared a video of that…
The Internet, which comes directly from the satellite orbiting the earth … so to speak. In addition to Starlink, which is owned by Elon Musk, companies such as OneWeb and Project Kuiper have recently stepped into satellite internet service providers. Starting with the Telstar satellite developed by Bell Labs in 1962, several satellites have already…
Once again, an asteroid is in the news. The new star is the 1994 PC1 asteroid (7482) 1994, which will pass close to Earth on January 18, 2022. Astronomers have been studying the asteroid for a long time. At present its orbit is not in any way threatening the earth. The asteroid will travel as…
Margaret Hamilton was the inventor of the on-board flight software for the first manned Apollo program in 1969. Program code files used by the Apollo Mission In 2016, President Barack Obama honored her with the Presidential Award
The Glodilocks zone around a star means that the planets in this range contain liquid water.The most important thing in exploring life outside the Solar System is to know if the planet is habitable, if so how to classify it, or what marks to give, and if so, according to which index. Then there are…
Betelgeuse is a star that represents the shoulder of a hunter named Orion. This is a red giant star. It is said to be 1400 times the size of the Sun. That is, if Betelgeuse is brought in place of the Sun, the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and asteroids will go into it. It…
An animation of a collision between Earth and a Rogue Planet.
The image shows an obsolete, outdated nickel-hydrogen battery wrapped around a used battery and ejected into space by its robotic arms. During the previous multiple space walks, the old three batteries were replaced and a new lithium-ion battery was installed. This old battery-filled pallet (weight 2.9ton) will burn up and disappear on its own within…
“NGC 891 is a galaxy about 30 million light-years away from the Andromeda galaxy, discovered by William Herschel on October 6, 1784. This galaxy is a member of the NGC 1023 galaxy in the local supercluster.” Do you think We are alone in the Universe?
