Confirmation of loss of contact with Voyager 2, currently approximately 21 billion kilometers from Earth. On July 21, commands sent from Earth to Voyager 2 accidentally caused Voyager’s High Gain Antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth. Therefore Voyager cannot currently receive messages from Earth or send messages in the direction of Earth. A…
The Manhattan Project nicknamed the Trinity Test was the most top secret nuclear test conducted by the United States. The movie Oppenheimer was released about it.Only a handful of people knew about it…after the test America dropped the nuclear bomb on Japan. But after this trinity test there was another group in this world who…
As far as we know, the universe is made up of fundamental particles like electrons and quarks. Everything we see in the universe, including ourselves, is the result of interactions between these particles. Fundamental forces mean interactions of elementary particles. Four fundamental forces have been identified. They are gravitational force, electromagnetic force, weak nuclear force…
NASA has launched four probes into space to communicate with extraterrestrials. Along with that it is used for the study of the universe, the planets of the solar system and so on. Voyager 1 and 2 in 1977. Before this, they were Pioneer 10 in 1972 and Pioneer 11 in 1973.(Out of which Voyager 1…
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…
What are S-Stars??? S-stars are stars orbiting the supermassive black hole (Sagittarius A) at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. They can travel at a speed of 8000 km per second. That is 2.5% of the speed of light. S-stars can be said to have helped researchers to some extent in finding the mass…
The mission to hit and divert an asteroid for the first time in history is a success. The first step was to get close to the asteroid and crash into it (Kinetic Impact). NASA’s DART mission touched down eight hours ago. As predicted, the asteroid began to appear on the vehicle camera around 4 am…
Yes.. In a few days we will be able to see Jupiter, our giant planet, closer and brighter than it has been in the last 70 years. Directly opposite to the Sun..that is, Jupiter rises in the east when the sun sets in the west, overhead at midnight, and Jupiter sets in the west when…
