December 16, 1965
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.
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.
In the Chelyabinsk Oblast region of Russia, the Big Stone River is a group of huge boulders that flow through the slopes of the Taganai Mountains in the southern Urals. The rock River is 6 km long and has an average width of 200 m. 700 m wide in some parts It is believed that…
Palmanova is a city and commune in northeastern Italy. The city is an example of a Renaissance Star Fortress built by the Venetian Republic in 1593.
The spin of an electron is 1/2. The spin is 1/2 for the proton. A hydrogen atom consists of a proton and an electron. Then there are two possibilities for total spin. One or both can be in the same direction. Then you get 1 total spin. Or in the opposite direction. Then we get…
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…
??? 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…