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…
Exoplanet Search and Study Group, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL Ahmedabad), Prof. Led by Abhijit Chakraborty, a new exoplanet has been discovered orbiting very close to a star 1.5 times the mass of our Sun. The discovery was made using the PRL Advanced Radial-Speed Abu-Sky Search (PARAS) optical fiber-fed spectrograph, the first of its kind in…
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.
??? Light-years away, the planet is only a few million years old. That is, this gas giant is in its infancy. The Near Infrared sensor in the telescope was to capture the radiation, which did not change the heat in the manufacturing process. Everyone is waiting for James Webb to turn around. In the processed…
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,…
Due to the vacuum of space, there will be formation of bubbles in your body fluids within short time & you’d swell up pretty bad- up to twice your normal size! After 15 seconds, your body would’ve used all of the oxygen and you’d lose consciousness. After some time, your lungs would rupture & might…
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…
It has been reported that many people change their disguise and plot to meet their lover. But the world is now shocked by the austerity measures taken by an astronaut. Serious allegations have been leveled against US space agency NASA astronaut Serena Oun Chancer. Serena has been accused of making a hole in a spaceship…
India’s first manned space mission ‘Gaganyaan’ will take place in 2023, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh has said. With this launch, India will become the fourth country in the world to launch a manned space mission after the USA, Russia and China. The test vehicle flight for the crew escape system and Gaganyan’s (G1)’s…
Is the hot shining blue stars. At 400 light-years away, the Pleiades is one of our nearest galaxies.
