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Hear The Sound Of Massive Martian Dust Devil That Hit Perseverance Rover @TheCosmosNews
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- Hear The Sound Of Massive Martian Dust Devil That Hit Perseverance Rover @TheCosmosNews
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- #thecosmosnews Massive Martian dust devil passed over the Perseverance rover, and it recorded the eerie sounds.
Scientists have seen plenty of dust devils on Mars, and now, for the first time, they’ve heard one. The vortex made a direct hit on NASA’s Perseverance rover, peppering the spacecraft with dust and whispering into a microphone that the team had smartly included in their package of instruments.
The trove of data coming from the encounter has thrilled scientists, who are keenly aware of the outsize influence Martian dust has on the planet’s climate. The fine-grained particles also can damage scientific instruments on Martian landers and rovers and potentially blanket solar panels to the point of uselessness. Studying the rover’s gritty recordings can provide insights into the way dust might affect ongoing Mars missions, and maybe even future human exploration.
The sound of the dust devil, published Tuesday to accompany a paper in the journal Nature Com...
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- A Ghostly Glow of Light Surrounds The Solar System, And Nobody Can Explain It @TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews Aside from a tapestry of glittering stars, and the glow of the waxing and waning Moon, the nighttime sky looks inky black to the casual observer. But how dark is dark?
To find out, astronomers decided to sort through 200,000 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and made tens of thousands of measurements on these images to look for any residual background glow in the sky, in an ambitious project called SKYSURF. This would be any leftover light after subtracting the glow from planets, stars, galaxies, and from dust in the plane of our solar system (called zodiacal light).
When researchers completed this inventory, they found an exceedingly tiny excess of light, equivalent to the steady glow of 10 fireflies spread across the entire sky. That's like turning out all the lights in a shuttered room and still finding an eerie glow coming from the walls, ceiling, and floor.
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- Scientists Created Mini Black Hole In Lab And It Started Radiating @TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews Scientists ‘grow black hole in lab’ Scientists have created a black hole in a laboratory to test a decades-old Stephen Hawking theory.
In a new study, researchers were able to recreate the conditions of a black hole in a lab, The US Sun reported.
A black hole is an invisible place in space where gravity pulls so intensely that even light cannot escape it.
The gravity in a black hole is so strong due to the dense matter being contained in a tiny space – this happens when a star is dying.
In the study, a team of scientists used a single-file chain of atoms to simulate the event horizon of a black hole.
What came next is something known as ‘Hawking Radiation’ – a theory proposed by the late physicist Stephen Hawking.
Hawking radiation describes the hypothetical particles that arise outside a black hole’s boundaries because of relativistic quantum effects.
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- 48,500 Year Old Zombie Virus Revived From Siberian Permafrost What Could Go Wrong?@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews 50000 years old Zombie Virus Resurrected In French Lab..As the world warms up, vast tranches of permafrost are melting, releasing material that's been trapped in its icy grip for years. This includes a slew of microbes that have lain dormant for hundreds of millennia in some cases.
To study the emerging microbes, scientists have now revived a number of these "zombie viruses" from Siberian permafrost, including one thought to be nearly 50,000 years old – a record age for a frozen virus returning to a state capable of infecting other organisms.
The team behind the work, led by microbiologist Jean-Marie Alempic from the French National Centre for Scientific Research, says these reanimating viruses are potentially a significant threat to public health, and further study needs to be done to assess the danger that these infectious agents could pose as they awake from their icy slumber.
"One quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is underlai...
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- This Insane Video Will Make You Believe There's a Serpent Inside The Sun @TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews A snake seeming to sinuously slink across the surface of the Sun has been captured in a new video by an observatory in close solar orbit.
However, the "serpent" spotted by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter is not a real stellar squamate but a newly observed solar phenomenon that may be linked to massive eruptions from a restless Sun.
The Orbiter observed the moving structure on 5 September as it moved in for its close approach – called a perihelion – planned for 12 October, the closest Solar Orbiter had been yet. The video from that encounter was just incredible, by the way.
As Solar Orbiter approached, it imaged a rippling line propagating a long path across the Sun. Solar scientists say this is a cooler tube of plasma in the surrounding hot plasma of the Sun's atmosphere, bound by solar magnetic fields.
The video shows the plasma snaking across the Sun from one side to the other, following a filament of the solar...
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- Mars Meteor Impact Caused Quake, Revealed Surprise Water Ice@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Meteoroid Impact on Mars Excavated Large Chunks of Water Ice, Planetary Scientists Say
NASA images show a meteor crashed into Mars, triggered a big quake, and kicked up surprise water ice
NASA’s InSight lander felt the ground shake during the impact while cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the cavernous new crater from space.
Last December 24, NASA’s InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake. However, scientists only learned the cause of that quake later: a meteoroid impact estimated to be one of the biggest seen on Mars since NASA began exploring the cosmos. Furthermore, the meteoroid strike excavated boulder-size chunks of ice buried closer to the Martian equator than ever found before – a discovery with implications for NASA’s future plans to send astronaut explorers to the Red Planet.
Researchers determined the quake resulted from a meteoroid impact when they spotted a new, yawning crate...
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- A total “BLOOD MOON”lunar eclipse is coming Nov. 8 @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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A total lunar eclipse will occur across the country early on Tuesday, November 8, astronomers say. It's the first Election Day total lunar eclipse in U.S. history, according to EarthSky.org. And the next Election Day lunar eclipse won't occur for another 372 years, on Nov. 8, 2394.
A total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon and the sun are on exact opposite sides of Earth, according to NASA. When this happens, Earth blocks the sunlight that normally reaches the moon. Instead of that sunlight hitting the moon’s surface, Earth's shadow falls on it.
Where and when can you see the eclipse?
Lunar eclipses can be visible from everywhere on the night side of the Earth, if the sky is clear, TimeandDate.com said. "From some places the entire eclipse will be visible, while in other areas the moon will rise or set during the eclipse."
According to EarthSky's Bruce McClure, if you live in the U.S., or elsewhere in North ...
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- A monster Black Hole Closest To Solar System Was Found Will It Ever Hit Earth?@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews @TheCosmosNews Black holes are among the most awesome and mysterious objects in the known Universe. These gravitational behemoths form when massive stars undergo gravitational collapse at the end of their lifespans and shed their outer layers in a massive explosion (a supernova). Meanwhile, the stellar remnant becomes so dense that the curvature of spacetime becomes infinite in its vicinity and its gravity so intense that nothing (not even light) can escape its surface. This makes them impossible to observe using conventional optical telescopes that study objects in visible light.
As a result, astronomers typically search for black holes in non-visible wavelengths or by observing their effect on objects in their vicinity. After consulting the Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3), a team of astronomers led by the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) recently observed a black hole in our cosmic backyard. As they describe in their study, this monster black hole is rough...
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- Bizarre Blue Blobs Hover Over Earth's Atmosphere Captured By ISS Astronauts @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Nasa's Earth Observatory re-posted the images after they were taken last year.
It previously explained: "An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph while orbiting over Southeast Asia and looking toward Earth’s limb."
One blob can be seen at the bottom center of the image and one can be seen to the right.
The big alien-like blob in the center is actually lightning.
The one to the right is the Moon.
Lightning strikes are usually hard to see from the ISS but this huge one occurred through a perfectly timed gap in the clouds.
The surrounding clouds were lit up by the lightning and the strange looking blue blob was formed.
A trick of light also helps the Moon to look like an odd blue blob in the image.
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- Astronomers Spotted Something That Appeared to Be Moving 7 Times the Speed of Light@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews An intense jet of energy in space appears to be traveling seven times faster than the speed of light—a feat that is considered physically impossible in our universe. Though this rapid pace is only an optical illusion, according to a new study, it still represents a blast of energy shooting towards us at very nearly the speed of light.
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has captured incredible views of the jet—which was ignited by an unprecedented collision between two hyperdense objects, called neutron stars—that led to one of the most important breakthroughs in astronomical history at the time it was discovered in 2017.
While the jet did not actually break the cosmic speed limit, it raced right up to the edge of this impassable threshold, reaching at least 99.97 percent of the speed of light, which translates to about 670 million miles per hour. Scientists led by Kunal Mooley, an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology, u...
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- Sun Explodes With 200 000 Km Long Filament Toward Earth@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Sun Throws 2,00,000 km-Long Fiery Filament Towards Earth; Its Remains Likely to Spark Geomagnetic Storm on October 7-8
The Sun has exploded and from it erupted 2,00,000 kilometers-long filament. Experts have said that the debris from the explosion could be headed toward Earth.
As per SOHO observatories, a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is emerging from the blast site and reports cited that data stream stopped before the full CME was visible.
Yesterday, Oct. 4th, a 200,000-km long filament of magnetism in the sun's southern hemisphere erupted. Snapping like a rubber band, it hurled part of itself into space, Spaceweather.com report said.
Debris from the blast might be heading for Earth. SOHO coronagraphs saw hints of a CME emerging from the blast site--but the data stream stopped before the full CME was visible. The missing data should arrive later today. Stay tuned for updates, it also added.
Coronal Mass Ejections (...
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- Something Causes The Entire Milky Way Galaxy Is Rippling Like A Pond @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Imagine the Milky Way's 100 billion stars as a flat, tranquil pool of water. Now, picture someone dropping a stone the size of 400 million suns into that water. The tranquility is shattered. Wave after wave of energy ripples across the galaxy's surface, jostling and bouncing its stars in a chaotic dance that takes eons to calm.
Astronomers suspect that something like this may have really happened — not just once, but several times over the past several billion years.
In a new paper published Sept. 15 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers explain how a nearby mini-galaxy — the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy — appears to have crashed through the Milky Way on at least two separate occasions, causing stars all around the galaxy to mysteriously oscillate at different speeds.
Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory, researchers compared the movements of more than 20 million stars...
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- Jupiter Comes Its Closest To Earth In 70 Years @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews If you’re into astrophotography or just enjoy sky-gazing, there’s a real treat ahead. On 26 September, and a few days before and after that, beautiful Jupiter is going to be easy to spot and shoot. It will be so close to the Earth that a good pair of binoculars will be enough to see it. And it’s a truly unique opportunity as the planet will be the closest to us in 70 years.
“In early September, Jupiter is rising as true darkness falls,” EarthSky writes. You’re already seeing it as that very bright “star” that ascends in the east throughout the evening. The planet will be in opposition on 26 September, when it will be rising in the east at sunset.
“With good binoculars, the banding (at least the central band) and three or four of the Galilean satellites (moons) should be visible,” NASA researcher Adam Kobelski said. To be honest, this really makes me excited considering that I have a toy telescope and I’m sure I’ll be able...
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- Neptune's Elusive Rings Captured by James Webb Telescope@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows off its capabilities closer to home with its first image of Neptune. Not only has Webb captured the clearest view of this distant planet’s rings in more than 30 years, but its cameras reveal the ice giant in a whole new light.
Most striking in Webb’s new image is the crisp view of the planet’s rings – some of which have not been detected since NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Neptune during its flyby in 1989. In addition to several bright, narrow rings, the Webb image clearly shows Neptune’s fainter dust bands.
“It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings, and this is the first time we’ve seen them in the infrared,” notes Heidi Hammel, a Neptune system expert and interdisciplinary scientist for Webb. Webb’s extremely stable and precise image quality permits these very faint rings to be detected so close to Neptune.
eptune ha...
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- NASA's InSight Mars Lander Recorded The Eerie Sound Of Meteor Crashing into Mars@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews NASA shared the sound of a meteor falling to Mars, with photos of the impact craters, on Monday.
The dwindling InSight lander has captured the acoustic and seismic noise of four meteor impacts.
Listen to the surprising "bloop" of a space rock falling through Mars's atmosphere and crashing.
Nobody had ever heard the sound of a meteor crashing into another planet until NASA's InSight lander recorded the seismic waves of a space rock striking Mars.
On September 5, 2021, a rock hurtling through space crossed the red planet's path. The meteor screamed towards the planet's dusty orange surface, sending a shock wave through the atmosphere.
Though it may have burned up from the friction and heat of plowing through Earth's atmosphere, the meteor survived the thin Martian air. It splintered into at least three pieces, which crashed into the planet's surface and made craters.
The InSight lander's seismometer, designed to meas...
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- China Discovered A New Lunar Mineral That May Be A Future Energy Source @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews China is aiming to launch three unmanned missions to the moon after discovering a new lunar mineral that could be an energy source in the future.
The space race between China and the US is accelerating after Beijing's National Space Administration got the go-ahead to launch three orbiters to the moon over the next 10 years, it announced on Saturday. The news was first reported by Bloomberg.
It comes a day after China became the third country to discover a new lunar mineral, which it called Changesite-(Y), according to Chinese state-controlled newspaper the Global Times.
China's Chang'e-5 mission retrieved samples from the moon in 2020 and it has been described by Global Times as a "phosphate mineral in columnar crystal" found in lunar rock particles. The mineral contains helium-3, which could be a future source of energy.
The discovery may put more pressure on the US to ramp up its efforts after its Artemis I moon miss...
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- JWST Captures "Giant Space Tarantula" In Stunning New Image@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews James Webb Space Telescope Captures "Giant Space Tarantula" In Stunning New Image
Resembling a burrowing tarantula's home line with its silk, the Tarantula Nebula houses the hottest and most massive stars known to astronomers, NASA explained.
A "giant space tarantula" has been caught by NASA's powerful James Webb Telescope. At 161,000 light years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, the Tarantula Nebula is the nickname for 30 Doradus - the largest and brightest star-forming region in the Local Group, the galaxies nearest our Milky Way, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"Take a moment to stare into the thousands of never-before-seen young stars in the Tarantula Nebula. @NASAWebb reveals details of the structure and composition of the nebula, as well as dozens of background galaxies," the US space agency wrote on Instagram while sharing a mesmerising image of the "space tarantula".
Resembling a bu...
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- JWST Captures First Direct Image Af A Planet Outside Our Solar System@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews NASA's James Webb releases first direct image of a planet outside our solar system
NASA'S James Web Telescope has released an image of the exoplanet HIP 65426 b using longer infrared wavelengths to reveal new details that ground-based telescopes couldn’t detect.
Astronomers have captured the first direct image of an exoplanet with the James Webb Space Telescope.
The exoplanet, or planet outside of our solar system, is a gas giant about six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter. The planet, called HIP 65426 b, is about 15 to 20 million years old -- just a baby planet when compared to cEarth, which is 4.5 billion years old.
It's located about 385 light-years away from Earth.
The planet can be seen in four different bands of infrared light as taken by Webb's different instruments. Webb sees the universe in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye -- and makes it the perfect space observatory to reveal details about distant worlds....
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- Extraordinary Phenomenon in Deep Space Captured by James Webb Space Telescope @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews The Universe, truly, is full of wonders, and the James Webb Space Telescope has just given us our best views of one of them yet.
The object in question is a star around 5,600 light-years away, and Webb's infrared eye has picked out an extraordinary detail: it's surrounded by what appear to be concentric rings of light radiating outward.
While Webb's characteristic diffraction spikes are not 'real', those concentric rings are – and there's a wonderful and fascinating explanation for them.
The star is actually a binary pair of rare stars in the constellation of Cygnus, and their interactions produce precise periodic eruptions of dust that are expanding out in shells into the space around the pair over time.
These shells of dust are glowing in infrared, which has allowed an instrument as sensitive as Webb's MIRI to resolve them in exquisite detail.
The star is what is known as a colliding wind binary, consis...
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- Almost Perfect Einstein Ring Has Snapped By James Webb Space Telescope @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Since the first James Webb Space Telescope images were released in July, our feeds have been flooded with mind-bogglingly gorgeous photos of space – from insanely detailed images of Jupiter to the most distant known star.
Now, Webb has done it again, this time capturing an almost perfect Einstein ring roughly 12 billion light-years away. And we can't stop staring.
You can see the colorized image, which was shared by astronomy grad student Spaceguy44 on Reddit, below.
As Spaceguy44 explains on Reddit, an Einstein ring occurs when a distant galaxy has been magnified and wrapped into an almost-perfect ring by a massive galaxy in front of it.
The galaxy in question is called SPT-S J041839-4751.8 and it's a whopping 12 billion light-years away.
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- Carbon Dioxide Detected Around Alien World by JWST For First Time@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Astronomers have found carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere of a Saturn-size planet 700 light-years away—the first unambiguous detection of the gas in a planet beyond the Solar System. The discovery, made by the James Webb Space Telescope, provides clues to how the planet formed. The result also shows just how quickly Webb may identify a spate of other gases, such as methane and ammonia, which could hint at a planet’s potential habitability for life.
Webb is “ushering in this new era of the atmospheric science of exoplanets,” says Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge, who was not involved in the study.
The Webb telescope is sensitive to infrared wavelengths of light that are mostly blocked by Earth’s atmosphere. It has already dazzled astronomers with its ability to bring the universe’s most distant stars and galaxies into view.
But the infrared sensitivity is also critical for researchers studying worlds m...
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- An Ocean Planet With The Possibility Of Life Found 100 Light-Years Away From Earth@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews The job of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is simply surreal. Imagine traveling a thousand years back in time, then explaining to someone how future scientists will have a machine that detects alien worlds floating at distances beyond the capacity of human comprehension.
That's TESS.
Since 2018, this space-borne instrument has literally found thousands of exoplanets. We have eyes on one shaped like a rugby ball, another that seems covered in lava oceans and even an orb that rains glass -- sideways.
On Wednesday, international scientists announced that one such foreign realm, dutifully hunted by TESS, may be covered in a blanket of life's elixir: water.
I'm not sure about you, but I'm getting flashbacks to that scene in Interstellar where Cooper lands on a world with waves the size of skyscrapers.
This possible "ocean world," according to the team's study, published this month in The Astronom...
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- NASA Released The Sound Of A Black Hole And It's Creepy As Hell @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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Ever wondered what it sounds like inside a black hole?
Over the weekend, NASA shared audio of sound waves that astronomers had extracted from the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster. The sounds were then amplified and mixed with other data to create this track:
NASA clarified that it was not “intentionally made ominous, but the sound you hear is amplified a lot, and other sounds are interpreted from light data.”
“One of the motivations to create such data sonifications is the desire to share the science with more people,” the space agency added.
The black hole at the center of Perseus has been associated with sound since 2003 when astronomers discovered that pressure waves emitted from the black hole caused ripples in the cluster’s hot gas that could be translated into a note, NASA explained in May when it first released the audio. The note is too low for humans to hear,...
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- Did James Webb Space Telescope Images Prove Big Bang Never Happened?@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Has the Webb Telescope Disproved the Big Bang Theory?
To everyone who sees them, the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images of the cosmos are beautifully awe-inspiring. But to most professional astronomers and cosmologists, they are also extremely surprising—not at all what was predicted by theory. In the flood of technical astronomical papers published online since July 12, the authors report again and again that the images show surprisingly many galaxies, galaxies that are surprisingly smooth, surprisingly small and surprisingly old. Lots of surprises, and not necessarily pleasant ones. One paper’s title begins with the candid exclamation: “Panic!”
Why do the JWST’s images inspire panic among cosmologists? And what theory’s predictions are they contradicting? The papers don’t actually say. The truth that these papers don’t report is that the hypothesis that the JWST’s images are blatantly and repeatedly contradicting is the Big Bang...
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- 'Spanish Stonehenge: Drought Reveals 7000 Years Old The Dolmen of Guadalperal @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews As new imagery taken from NASA's Landsat 8 satellite shows, the reappearance of the ancient monument is owed to very low water levels in Spain's Valdecañas Reservoir following a summer of record heat and drought across Europe (and most of the rest of the planet.)
Sometimes labeled the "Spanish Stonehenge," the Dolmen of Guadalperal is a large circle of about 150 standing stones, some more than 6 feet (1.8 meters) tall, arranged around a central, open oval. Archaeologists speculate that the structure was built in the 4th or 5th millennium B.C. (possibly making it thousands of years older than Stonehenge in England). The mysterious megalith may once have supported a massive stone cap that enclosed the space for ritual uses.
One particularly large stone (a "menhir") seems to mark the entrance. This rocky threshold is engraved with a human figure on one side, and a squiggly symbol on the other side that could represent a snake or the nearby Tagus ...
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- Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Had A Never Before Seen Massive Eruption@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Monster Star Had Never-Seen-Before Titanic Eruption
Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star, appears as a brilliant, ruby-red, twinkling spot of light in the upper right shoulder of the winter constellation Orion the Hunter. However, when viewed close up, astronomers know that it is a seething monster with a 400-day-long heartbeat of regular pulsations. This aging star is classified as a supergiant because it has swelled up to an astonishing diameter of approximately 1 billion miles. If placed at the center of our solar system it would reach out to the orbit of Jupiter.
The star’s ultimate fate is to explode as a supernova. When that eventually happens it will be briefly visible in the daytime sky from Earth. But there are a lot of fireworks going on now before the final detonation. Astronomers using Hubble and other telescopes have deduced that the star blew off a huge piece of its visible surface in 2019. This has never before been seen on a star....
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- The Newly Discovered Langya Virus Infected 35 People In China@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Another Zoonotic virus - Langya virus - has caught the attention of experts as 35 people are found to be infected with it in China. Authorities said, the patients did not have close contact with each other or common exposure history, suggesting that human infections might be sporadic. Meanwhile, Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are currently establishing a nucleic acid testing method to identify and check the spread of the virus.
Langya virus is a newly detected virus and therefore, Taiwan's laboratories will require a standardized nucleic acid testing method to identify the virus, so that human infections could be monitored, if needed, Taiwan's CDC Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang said.
What is Langya henipavirus?
The Langya henipavirus, which has been found in China's Shandong and Henan provinces, can be transmitted from animals to humans.
Human-to-human transmission of the virus has not been repo...
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- Our Sun Is Going Through A Highly Aggressive Phase on Solar Cycle 25 @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Sun's Upcoming Peak of Sunspot and Solar Flare Activity Could Set Records Northern lights “Auras” Will Be Visible
New Sunspot Cycle could be one of the strongest on record
Solar activity refers to changes in the Sun’s magnetic field, which repeats over a cycle of about eleven years. The magnetic variations cause the number of sunspots to increase and decrease, which also affects the frequency of solar flares; powerful eruptions of radiation on the Sun’s surface that spread outwards through the Solar System and cause fluctuations in phenomena such as the aurora on Earth. The impact on the Earth and the surroundings of our planet caused by fluctuations in solar activity are referred to as “space weather”. In April this year, space weather became a hot topic when the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications estimated the potential cell phone outages, wide-spread power outages, and the reduced GPS accuracy that would occur if extreme ...
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- Massive Sinkhole Appears in Chile Leaving a Deep Void in The Atacama Desert @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Mystery sinkhole ranks among deepest in the world
Hundreds of cubic feet of earth gave way to form a gigantic sinkhole measuring 600-plus feet deep, puzzling experts working to figure out what triggered the massive implosion.A huge sinkhole measuring larger than a tennis court suddenly opened up near a copper mining operation in Chile, swallowing large chunks of soil, and investigators are trying to figure out what exactly triggered one of the largest ground collapses in the world.
The enormous pit in Tierra Amarilla, in the country’s Atacama Desert region, measures 105-feet-wide (32 meters) and about 650-feet-deep (200 meters), according to Chile’s National Geology and Mining Service, Sernageomin.
Hundreds of cubic feet of soil caved in on Saturday and investigators with Sernageomin were immediately called in. They visited the site to examine the hole and to determine what might have caused such a massive ground collapse. So fa...
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- Ghost Footprints & Mammoth Bones Found in North America Could Rewrite History @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Mammoth bones and “ghost” footprints of ancient people are the latest evidence in a scientific debate about when the first humans reached the Americas.
The fossilized bones, in particular, could suggest people lived in North America tens of thousands of years before the generally accepted date for the arrival of the first Native Americans of about 10,000 B.C.
Researchers say radiocarbon dates of chemicals in the mammoth bones, from a mother and her calf, indicate the animals lived about 37,000 years ago in what’s now New Mexico. Patterns of fractures on the bones show they were butchered by humans, who must therefore have lived there at the same time, the researchers added. But the findings are disputed by some other scientists, who say the fractures could have been caused naturally.
The latest “ghost” footprints, meanwhile, were found a few weeks ago on an Air Force missile range in a desert in Utah. Scientists think they...
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- James Webb Space Telescope Has Peered Into The Cartwheel Galaxy in Newest Image@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Webb has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. Webb’s powerful infrared gaze produced this detailed image of the Cartwheel and two smaller companion galaxies against a backdrop of many other galaxies. This image provides a new view of how the Cartwheel Galaxy has changed over billions of years.
The Cartwheel Galaxy, located about 500 million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation, is a rare sight. Its appearance, much like that of the wheel of a wagon, is the result of an intense event – a high-speed collision between a large spiral galaxy and a smaller galaxy not visible in this image. Collisions of galactic proportions cause a cascade of different, smaller events between the galaxies involved; the Cartwheel is no exception.
The collision most notably affected the galaxy’s shape and structure. The Cartwheel Galaxy sports two rings — a brig...
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- Earth Just Started Spinning Faster Than Ever Recorded Its Shortest Day@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Earth Is Suddenly Spinning Faster. Why Our Planet Just Recorded Its Shortest Day Since Records Began
Earth is actually spinning faster than it used to and recently recorded a time that was the fastest scientists had ever seen.
On 29 June 2022, Earth completed one spin in 1.59 milliseconds less than its usual 24-hour rotation, in turn setting the record for the shortest day – and the latest in a series of speed records for our planet since 2020.
And it came pretty close again more recently, having completed the spin in 1.5 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours.
Scientists began taking accurate daily measurements of the Earth’s rotation in the 1960s, using atomic clocks. These work by using resonance frequencies of atoms to monitor time with extreme precision.
Since then, experts have found that – while there are fluctuations – Earth has been speeding up in recent years, with 2020 seeing 28 shortest days si...
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- Out Of Control Massive 25 Ton Chinese Rocket Debris Will Fall To Earth July 31@TheCosmosNews
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- 25-ton Chinese rocket debris will fall to Earth around July 31
The newest piece of big Chinese space junk will fall back to Earth around the end of the month, experts predict.
Debris From a Chinese Space Rocket Is Crashing Toward Earth
Experts say 25-ton booster will crash to Earth around July 31
China says warnings just the US trying to smear space program
The object in question is the roughly 25-ton (22.5 metric tons) core stage of the Long March 5B rocket that on Sunday (July 24) launched to orbit the second module for China's under-construction Tiangong space station.
The rocket body will likely stay aloft for about a week, according to researchers with The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Orbital Reentry and Debris Studies (CORDS). They've analyzed tracking data gathered by the U.S. Space Force's Space Surveillance Network and predict that the rocket body will reenter Earth's atmosphere around 3:30 a.m. EDT (0730 GMT) on J...
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- Giant Alien-Looking Sea Creature Spotted 3000 meters Depth Of The Pacific@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Rare and bizarre tentacle-trailing sea creature caught on video, expedition scientist’s 'mind is blown'
'Thrilling Discovery': Surprising Sea Creature Spotted in the Pacific
Scientists are wondering if it might be a new species.tweet from the Exploration Vessel Nautilus showing an intriguing tentacle-y creature with a long thin stalk reaching down to the ocean floor. I was immediately enchanted. The Nautilus team called it "a thrilling discovery."
The sea pen made its appearance during a visit by a remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, to an unexplored seamount near Johnston Atoll, a remote spot to the west of Hawaii in the Pacific. It was unexpected. This is the first time this animal has been spotted in the Pacific. It's normally found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The Nautilus came across two examples during the dive.
A video shot at a depth of 9,823 feet (2,994 meters) shows the moment of discovery, along with commentary from...
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- Pilot Spots Huge Mysterious Red Glow While Flying Over Atlantic Ocean@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews A pilot flying saw a mysterious red glow over the Atlantic. The pilot claims he has never seen anything like it. The unexplainable red glow can be seen in photographs. It was also captured on video.
We all see enchanting sights when flying, but some are more extraordinary than others. A pilot flying over the Atlantic has noticed one of these things, the pilot also says he’s never seen anything like it before
The pilot noticed a bright red/orange glow before departure, which was confirmed when he looked at a photo preview on the camera's back. There was supposed to be nothing but an endless ocean for kilometers around them.
They seemed at first like a distant city or a group of classic Asian squid fishing boats, but this was not possible here. The lights they saw were noticeably bigger than the conventional lights that cities or ships would emit, which are typically yellow and white.
The brightness intensified as they ...
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- It's Unreal! Newest Image Of The Phantom Galaxy (NGC 628) Captured By James Webb @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews The Webb Telescope’s Latest Science Images Show The ‘Phantom Galaxy’ And More In Breathtaking Depth And Detail
Just days after the first formal release of its first show-off images scientists using the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have posted some stunning new images of two spiral galaxies.
Posted on Flickr by Judy Schmidt working on the PHANGS Survey, the stunning image, above, shows the spectacular “Phantom Galaxy” (also called M74 and NGC 628), with others (scroll down) showing another spiral galaxy called NGC 7496.
The incredible new images are testament to Webb’s skill at seeing in infrared and thus seeing through the gas and dust that obscures a lot of what is going on in some of the most arresting objects in the night sky.
Scroll down for all the new images—and how they compare to those taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, which sees only in visible and near-infrared light.
The first ...
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- Sky Turns Dazzling Pink Color Over Antarctica by Afterglow Effect@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Amazing photo shows Antarctica bathed in pink light after a volcano eruption spewed particles in the atmosphere
Pink Skies Seen Over Antarctica May Be Explained by Tonga Volcano Eruption
Antarctica's sky turned pink and purple last week, a stunning photo shows.
The change is due to particles released by a volcano eruption at the start of the year.
The blast on Tonga has been affecting skies in other countries too.
The skies above Antarctica are burning a fiery pink, which is thought to be as a result of the Hunga Tonga volcano eruption in January 2022.
Similar hues have dazzled other regions in the Southern Hemisphere during July, including New Zealand and Australia. Antarctica is in a state of near-constant twilight in July, as it is just past midwinter in the Southern Hemisphere, so Antarctic scientists see these sunset-like colors at about midday.
The scientists in Antarctica communicated with New Zealand's Natio...
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- Strange Heartbeat Radio Signal (FRB) Detected In Depths Of Space@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Weirdly Slow Radio Burst in Space Is 'Like a Heartbeat'
Researchers think it came from an especially intense pulsar or magnetar.
Astronomers have detected a strange radio signal that emits periodically “like a heartbeat” and is coming from the depths of space.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States were caught by surprise due to the intensity of the radio bursts, as well as their regularity.
The signal is classified as a fast radio burst (FRB), which are intense bursts of radio waves of unknown origin.
This one studied by scientists at MIT and other institutions is currently the longest-lasting FRB to date, with the clearest periodic pattern.
Named FRB 20191221A, the signal persists for much longer - around 1,000 times longer in fact - than the typical FRB, raising questions about what could be causing it.
FRBs tend to last for a few milliseconds a...
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- NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Spots Noodle-Like Strange Object On Red Planet@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews This image from July 12, 2022, puts the spaghetti-shaped object (circled in red) in perspective with the rover's wheel and the end of its robotic arm.
NASA's beloved Perseverance Mars rover discovered something particularly strange as it traversed the Red Planet — a coiled mess of unidentified, string-like material that almost resembles a swirl of noodles.
Alas, while we wouldn't be surprised to learn that extraterrestrial life also enjoys delicious linguine, ramen, or any other pasta-centric meal, it's most likely that this oddity is actually a bit of NASA space junk, leftover from Percy's 2021 arrival.
The latest puzzling image beamed back from the red planet shows a weird, tangled object lying in the dust.
If you saw the same thing on Earth, you’d probably think it was some kind of sea creature, a bit of string or even some discarded spaghetti.
The object was snapped by Nasa’s Perseverance rover which has been e...
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- Mind-Blowing 5 Photos From the James Webb Space Telescope: What They Can Tell Us?@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews These 5 Photos From the James Webb Space Telescope Are Mind-Blowing. Here's What They Can Tell Us
* Carina Nebula
* WASP-96b (spectrum)
* Southern Ring Nebula
* Stephan’s Quintet
* SMACS 0723
This week, NASA revealed the first image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Today, at a special event, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) showed the rest of Webb's 'first light' images, showcasing the Carina Nebula, WASP-96b (spectrum), Southern Ring Nebula, Stephan's Quintet, and SMACS 0723.
The images have been coming long time and represent a major achievement for the James Webb Space Telescope team, and everyone has worked on the project for the last two decades. Webb is the biggest scientific undertaking ever at NASA and will peer back further than ever before. During the next 10-20 years, Webb will look at some of the earliest stars, see the universe's origins, and investigate exoplanets.
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- Shockingly Beautiful First 5 Images from the James Webb Space Telescope Released@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews First Images From NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Will Blow Your Mind!!
First Images From NASA’s Webb Space Telescope https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
* Carina Nebula
* WASP-96b (spectrum)
* Southern Ring Nebula
* Stephan’s Quintet
* SMACS 0723
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* Nasa has been working for more than two decades to present its "scientific marvel" of the first full-color pictures of the cosmos
* The breathtaking images show the formation of stars and devouring black holes that give humanity "a view of the universe we've never seen before"
* The images of space exceed looking back over 13 billion years marking "a great engineering feat for humanity and planet Earth"
* US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris "geeked out" after being shown the space images in advance at the White House
* One picture showed a spectrum obtained for the atmosphere of WASP-96b, a giant planet outside our S...
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- First Full Color Image From NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Released @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Newest Images Released Today July 12 Update https://youtu.be/JeZxPE6_NzE
The first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been released. https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
The images, the full set of which will be released Tuesday morning, will be the deepest and highest resolution ever taken of the universe, according to NASA.
The telescope will help scientists study the formation of the universe’s earliest galaxies, how they compare to today’s galaxies, how our solar system developed and if there is life on other planets. President Joe Biden unveiled the first full-color image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
The image, revealed during a press event held at the White House Monday and also attended by Vice President Kamala Harris, shows multiple galaxies.
It is the highest-resolution image of the universe ever captured, officials said.
"Today is a historic d...
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- Unstoppable Gargantuan Sinkhole Batagaika In Siberia Swallow Everything In Its Path@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews In Siberia, Giant Craters Sparked Dozens of Wild Theories About their Origins. Thawing Permafrost has Shaped the Largest of its Kind, The Batagaika Crater
A dramatic hole in the ground dominates the landscape of Yakutia, North-East Siberia, and keep growing at an accelerated rate. The Batagaika Crater is the largest permafrost crater in the world. But what is going on there? Scientists are working hard there trying to decipher the secrets of climate. Massive permafrost thaws thousands of years ago destabilized the climate system, something that could happen again very soon.
In Northeast Siberia, there is a dramatic hole in the ground, the Batagaika crater. This huge crater is the largest of its kind: almost 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) long and 86 meters (282 feet) deep. Located roughly 10 kilometers Southeast of the town of Batagay (Yakutia), on the left bank of the Batagay River, the Batagaika crater has a characteristic shape resembling a tadpole....
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- Why Did The Skies Turn Apocalyptic Green Over South Dakota? @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews The skies above South Dakota, US turned green on Tuesday (5 July) as a particularly strong storm rolled in.
Eerie images appeared on social media showing the peculiar colour of the sky over Sioux Falls, South Dakota just before a thunderstorm swept through the area.
The National Weather Service confirmed that a ‘derecho storm’ barreled through much of South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa, leaving nearly 30,000 people without power for hours.
Storms qualify as derechos when they have sustained winds of at least 93 km/h and leave a path of damage at least 400 km long, according to the National Weather Service. This particular storm reached a wind speed of 159 km/h.
While residents in South Dakota have grown used to derechos having recently experienced two such storms, the green sky was a highly unusual sight.
What caused the sky to turn green?
It’s not fully understood why green skies oc...
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- NASA Made A Shocking Discovery On The Asteroid Bennu @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews NASA’s attempt to sample asteroid Bennu delivers a shocking revelation
NASA reveals ‘astonishing’ discovery about Bennu asteroid.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected rock and mud samples on the asteroid Bennu in 2020. Analyzing these samples, NASA scientists made a “shocking” discovery. Accordingly, the floor of the asteroid turned out to be very completely different than anticipated.
NASA likens asteroid floor to a plastic ball pool
The house company states that the particles that make up the surface of Bennu have a a lot looser construction than anticipated. NASA went a step additional and in contrast the quite loosely made asteroid to a ball pool.
Bennu had his first shock when OSIRIS-REx reached the asteroid. The asteroid stunned with a sandy floor, quite filled with rocks, as noticed from Earth and house. The asteroid has as soon as once more stunned scientists with its comfortable tissue constru...
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- New James Webb Space Telescope Images Will Bring You To Tears: Released On July 12@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews 07-11-2022 Update Here Is First JWST Image Released Today https://youtu.be/54B5SpDfz_o
NASA has a provided a tantalizing teaser photo ahead of the highly-anticipated release next week of the first deep-space images from the James Webb Telescope -- an instrument so powerful it can peer back into the origins of the universe.
The $10 billion observatory -- launched in December last year and now orbiting the Sun a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away from Earth -- can look where no telescope has looked before thanks to its enormous primary mirror and instruments that focus on infrared, allowing it to peer through dust and gas.
The first fully formed pictures are set for release on July 12, but NASA provided an engineering test photo on Wednesday -- the result of 72 exposures over 32 hours that shows a set of distant stars and galaxies.
The image has some "rough-around-the-edges" qualities, NASA said in a statement, ...
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- No One Saw It Coming: A bus-sized Asteroid Will fly extremely close to Earth July 7@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews A bus-sized asteroid will pass close to Earth on Wednesday afternoon, passing well within the Moon’s orbit, and you can watch.
Asteroid 2022 NF will make its closest approach of 55,300 miles to Earth on Thursday, 7 July, but the Virtual Telescope Project is offering a livestream tracking the asteroid’s path that launches at 4pm EDT Wednesday afternoon.
Discovered on 4 July by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, or Pan-Starrs telescope at Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii, the 22-foot diameter asteroid 2022 NF will not threaten Earth. But Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, has yet to plot the asteroid’s path out beyond 2022 in the lab’s small body database — asteroid 2022 NF orbits the Sun once every 3.7 years or so.
It’s also not the only space rock to pass near Earth over the next six days, although it will pass the closest.
Asteroid 2022 NE, a similarly sized space rock to 2022...
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- Could Mars Samples Brought To Earth Contaminating Our Planet With Alien Viruses? @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews
Controversy Grows Over whether Mars Samples Endanger Earth
Planetary scientists are eager to bring Red Planet rocks, soil and even air to Earth, but critics fear the risk of contaminating our world’s biosphere with alien viruses
NASA has plans to retrieve samples the Perseverance rover has collected from the surface of Mars and bring them back to Earth to be studied. These unsterilized samples have some pandemic weary people worried, however, about exactly what might be brought back.
The Perseverance rover has been busy since landing on the surface of the Red Planet. One of its objectives has been to collect samples to later be brought back to Earth for study. NASA held two virtual public meetings about the proposed program back in May of this year, in order to inform the public of its plans and to receive feedback. It seems that there are some who have some concerns surrounding the retrieval of the unsterilized samples.
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- Large Hadron Collider At CERN Not Create Blackhole Or Portal But Found Pentaquarks @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Update:LHCb discovers three new exotic particles
The collaboration has observed a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks”The international LHCb collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has observed three never-before-seen particles: a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks”, which includes a new type of tetraquark. The findings, presented today at a CERN seminar, add three new exotic members to the growing list of new hadrons found at the LHC. They will help physicists better understand how quarks bind together into these composite particles.
Quarks are elementary particles and come in six flavours: up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom. They usually combine together in groups of twos and threes to form hadrons such as the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei. More rarely, however, they can also combine into four-quark and five-quark particles, or “tetraquarks...
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- Does CERN create black holes or Portals? #cern #cernjuly5 #lhc #shorts @TheCosmosNews
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- 2 years ago
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- #thecosmosnews Full Video Link Is Here:https://youtu.be/IZagPTCb-BU
Giant Atom Smasher That Revealed ‘God Particle’ Restarts, Along With Doomsday Conspiracy Theories
Higgs Boson researchers mark 10 year anniversary with return to particle studies
Giant Atom Smasher That Revealed ‘God Particle’ Restarts, Along With Doomsday Conspiracy Theories
Does CERN create black holes or Portals? Europe is about to fire up the giant atom smasher that helped scientists discover the so-called “God particle,” prompting wacky internet fears it could create a black hole that swallows the world or open a portal to Hell.
The Large Hadron Collider, in a giant physics lab near Geneva, has been dormant for the last three years. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, intends to restart the particle accelerator this week in a search for anti-matter and answers to more of the universe’s most vexing mysteries.
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