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…
During the mainstream phase of stellar evolution, the outer layers expand and the core shrinks as the stars become red giants. Externally expanding outer layers are separated from the star by various actions. This part of the planet is called the Planetary Nebula. Named the Planetary Nebula, it has nothing to do with the Planet….
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has been launched to study asteroids known as the remains of the Solar System. Lucy set out to target asteroid clusters located in Jupiter’s orbit. The Atlas-5 rocket was launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, October 16 at 3.03 Indian time. The spacecraft will be explored…
Exoplanets are planets outside our solar system.So far, astronomers have identified 4,800 planets orbiting other stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. They are all about 3,000 light-years from Earth. But for the first time, NASA has discovered a planet outside the Milky Way. The discovery was made using NASA’s Lunar X – ray Observatory….
In 1930, we discovered a dwarf planet in the Solar System. What’s the name of the game? People all over the world suggested many names. What if an eleven-year-old schoolboy named Venetia Burney finally named the new planet Pluto? Asked his grandfather. The boy’s grandfather shared the suggestion with his friend, a physics professor at…
Blue Origin, a space tourism company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, launches a commercial space station. Officials said they expect the station, dubbed ‘Orbital Reef’, to be operational by the end of this decade. The promotional material released by the company claims that the station will be a ‘mixed use business park’ in space…
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…
Robert Wadlow is the tallest man the world has ever seen, based on accurate evidence. Wadlow’s height at the time of death was about 272 cm or 8 feet 11 inches. Hypertrophy of the pituitary gland in the body due to overproduction of Human Growth Hormone is the cause of his abnormal growth. Although it…
