The Cosmos News
Potential Life Signs on Alien Planet JWST Detects Methane CO2 On Exoplanet
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- Potential Life Signs on Alien Planet JWST Detects Methane CO2 On Exoplanet
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- 10 days ago
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- #thecosmosnews Astronomers Thrilled by Potential Life Signs on Alien Planet. Are we alone? This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Today, this question in astronomy focuses on finding life beyond our planet. Are we, as a species, and as a planet, alone? Or is there life somewhere else?
Usually the question inspires visions of weird, green versions of humans. However, life is more than just us: animals, fish, plants and even bacteria are all the kinds of things we seek signs of in space.
One thing about life on Earth is that it leaves traces in the chemical makeup of the atmosphere. So traces like that, which are visible from a long way away, are something we look for when we're hunting aliens.
Scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States have just reported some very interesting chemical traces in the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b, which is about 124 light-years from Earth. In particular, they may have detected a substan...
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- Scientific Shock: Human Ancestors Did Not Come from Africa But from Anatolia(Europe) @TheCosmosNews
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- 17 days ago
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- #thecosmosnews Modern humans first left Africa and migrated to Eurasia between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago . But a fossilized skeleton with surprisingly human-like characteristics found in central Turkey suggests that ancient human ancestors of Homo sapiens journeyed in the opposite direction much earlier. These previously undetected hominins may have migrated from the eastern Mediterranean region to Africa over five million years ago, with their evolutionary line eventually producing all the hominin species that are currently acknowledged as human ancestors .
In a thought-provoking discovery, a newly found fossilized ape from a 8.7-million-year-old site in Turkey is prompting researchers to reconsider long-standing theories about human evolution.
The study published in Communications on August 23 proposes that the ancestors of African apes and humans may have evolved in Europe before migrating to Africa between nine and seven million years ago.
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- Get Ready for Nishimura: A Fascinating Green Comet Set to Grace Our Night Sky@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 month ago
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- #thecosmosnews The comet could be visible to the naked eye... if the circumstances are favorable. Now, we have a new comet that could reach naked-eye visibility over the next few weeks: C/2023 P1 Nishimura. The comet was discovered by Hideo Nishimura while shooting wide-field images from Kakegawa, Japan on the night of August 11th. At the time, the comet displayed a respectable 5’ coma. Score one for the human observers, versus robotic all-sky surveys…
Currently at +9th magnitude (with a bullet) in the constellation Gemini, the comet is now well-placed in the predawn sky. With binoculars, I could just make out the smudge of the comet this morning near Delta Geminorum. I was observing from Jimena de la Frontera in southern Spain.
The comet was initially listed as simply HN00003 on the IAU’s Minor Planet Center PCCP site, before receiving a formal name. P1 Nishimura is expected to brighten to +3 or +2 magnitude in early September, though it will also be near the ...
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- Giant Millennium Falcon Shaped Comet Grows Horns After Ice Volcano Eruption@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 months ago
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- #thacosmosnews Astronomers have spotted a "once-in-a-lifetime" comet shaped like the Millennium Falcon — and sky gazers may soon be able to see it for themselves without a telescope.
The comet, known as Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, abruptly brightened 100-fold on July 20 as plumes of debris and ice were blasted off it into space.
This gave it a horseshoe shape, which scientists likened to the Millennium Falcon spaceship from "Star Wars."
The comet will make its closest approach to the sun next year, passing about 144 million miles from our planet on June 2, 2024.
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which has been likened to the Millennium Falcon of Star Wars fame by one astronomy website for its new look, is now inbound on a fast pass by the sun. It’s one of the brightest known Halley–like comets, which are icy rocks that take 20 to 200 years to orbit the sun and do so along a steeply inclined path relative to the rest of the solar system. On July...
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- They’re alive! 46,000 Year-Old Roundworms Revived From Siberian Permafrost@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Tiny roundworms that were frozen for 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost are wriggling once again. Laila Harrak speaks with Teymuras Kurzchalia of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.At a time when the mighty woolly mammoth roamed the Earth, some 46,000 years ago, a minuscule pair of roundworms became encased in the Siberian permafrost.
Millennia later, the worms, thawed out of the ice, would wriggle again, and demonstrate to scientists that life could be paused — almost indefinitely.
The discovery, published this week in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS Genetics, offers new insight into how the worms, also known as nematodes, can survive in extreme conditions for extraordinarily long periods of time, in this case tens of thousands of years.
In 2018, Anastasia Shatilovich, a scientist from the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS in Russia, thawed two female worms f...
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- The Next Big One: GPS Data Could Detect Large Earthquakes Hours Before They Happen@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Hours Before Large Earthquakes: A Precursor Warning.
meaningful earthquake prediction must clearly define the expected time, location, and magnitude of a future event. Short-term earthquake prediction—that is, the capability to issue a warning from minutes to a few months before a mainshock—is impossible without the existence of an observable and actionable precursor. Thus, a key goal is the discovery of a common preparatory faulting process that can tell us where, when, and how big an impending earthquake is going to be. On page 297 of this issue, Bletery and Nocquet present a systematic analysis of changes in the horizontal position of approximately 3000 geodetic stations, which were measured by using the Global Positioning System (GPS), near 90 global earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 7. They found that on average, horizontal movements of the stations exponentially accelerated in a direction consistent with slow fault slip near the eventual earthqua...
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- A Mysterious Object in Deep Space Has Blinked Every 22 Minutes for Over 30 Years@TheCosmosNews
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- 2 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews An intensely magnetic neutron star roughly 15,000 light-years from Earth is stumping astronomers with its ultra-long periods, unleashing radio waves into the cosmos every 22 minutes.
Neutron stars with intense magnetic fields are called magnetars. Now, 22-minute periods may sound relatively frequent in Earthly time scales, but most magnetars have periods between a few seconds and a few minutes. The team’s research describing the object was published this week in Nature.
“This remarkable object challenges our understanding of neutron stars and magnetars, which are some of the most exotic and extreme objects in the Universe,” said Natasha Hurley-Walker, an astronomer at Curtin University’s International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research and the study’s lead author, in an ICRAR release.
Magnetars are responsible for plenty of the fast radio bursts (FRBs) astronomers witness emanating throughout the cosmos, even from within ...
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- Harvard Professor Avi Loeb Claims To Have Found Fragments Of Alien Technology@TheCosmosNews
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- 3 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Aliens have taken the news by storm once again in the US after Harvard professor Avi Loeb claimed that he may have found pieces of extraterrestrial technology in a meteor that struck the waters off Papua New Guinea in 2014.
Avi Loeb, a physicist and science professor at Harvard University, and his team recently brought the mysterious materials back to the university for analysis.
According to the US Space Command, it came from another solar system, with a high degree of certainty (99.999%).
Loeb was given a government-provided 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) radius around the potential landing site.
"That is where the fireball took place, and the government detected it from the Department of Defence. It's a very big area, the size of Boston, so we wanted to pin it down," said Loeb.
"We figured the distance of the fireball based on the time delay between the arrival of the blast wave, the boom of the explosion, and...
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- Giantic Heat-Emitting Granite Blob On The Far Side Of The Moon Discovered @TheCosmosNews
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- 3 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews The Moon has been a subject of awe and fascination for millennia, with its shape-shifting powers and enigmatic dark side.
And though it’s the one celestial body on which man has taken (small) steps, we still have big leaps to go in understanding its potential and uncovering its secrets.
However, one hidden feature of the Moon has been unearthed by scientists and it’s very, very big, and very, very heavy.
Buried beneath its South Pole-Aitken basin – one of the largest preserved craters in the Solar System – is a structure which weighs at least 2.18 billion kilogrammes and measures more than 300km (186 miles) in depth and 2,000km (1,243 miles) in length.
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- Giant Mysterious ‘Gravity Hole’ Anomaly In The Indian Ocean Discovered@TheCosmosNews
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- 3 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Scientists Find Why There Is A Massive ‘Hole’ In The Indian Ocean, Where Earth’s Gravity Is Weakest
Unraveling the Mystery of the Indian Ocean's Gravity Hole
Scientists have long puzzled over a massive "gravity hole" in the Indian Ocean, an area where the gravitational pull is unusually low, causing the seafloor to sink. Now, two researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, Debanjan Pal, and Attreyee Ghosh, claim to have cracked the code behind this enigmatic phenomenon.
Their investigation led them more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) below Earth's crust, where they discovered the remnants of an ancient ocean that had submerged into a "slab graveyard" beneath Africa approximately 30 million years ago. The interaction between this cold, dense oceanic material and the hot molten rock stirred up intriguing geophysical processes.
Pal and Ghosh meticulously retraced the geological history, spanning 140 million years, ...
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- Earth Axis Tilted:Humans Pumped So Much Groundwater That Earth’s Spin Shifted@TheCosmosNews
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- 3 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews By pumping groundwater, humans have shifted the distribution of the water on Earth enough to alter the planet’s tilt, a new study finds.
Previous research estimated that, between 1993 to 2010, humans pumped more than 2 trillion tons of groundwater. That water flowed to cities and farms before emptying out to sea, raising global sea levels by around a quarter of an inch, the study suggested.
New research finds evidence of this shift in the changing position of the Earth’s rotational pole — the point around which the planet spins. Comparing a computer model of the rotational pole with observed changes in its position, scientists found that the pole’s recent drift could not be fully explained without the effect of groundwater pumping.
From 1993 to 2010, they determined, humans redistributed enough water to move the rotational pole roughly 31 inches. The findings were published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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- What Scientists Found Deep In The South African Cave Shakes Up Human Evolution Story: Homo Naledi
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- 3 months ago
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- @TheCosmosNews #thecosmosnews Claim of ancient burials shakes up human evolution story, sparks debate
Controversial evidence suggests that our relative Homo naledi was capable of complex behavior despite its much smaller brain. In this video, we delve into the fascinating world of Homo Naledi, a prehistoric hominin species that once roamed the Earth. Recent groundbreaking discoveries have shed light on their surprising cultural behaviors, challenging our understanding of early human history.
Join us as we explore Homo Naledi's advanced cultural practices, including evidence of fire use and intentional burial of their dead. Through meticulous archaeological research and analysis, scientists have unearthed compelling evidence of Homo Naledi's ability to control fire, marking a significant milestone in our understanding of prehistoric fire utilization.
Furthermore, we delve into the astonishing burial practices of Homo Naledi, which exhibit striking similarities to those...
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- A Rare 5 Planets Alignment Is About to Happen How To Watch On June 17 2023 @TheCosmosNews
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- 3 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Planetary Alignment 2023: Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, Mercury & Uranus on June 17th
Planetary alignments are beautiful celestial events that you can observe without special equipment. The next one will take place on June 17. Here you’ll learn how to observe the alignments, find the dates of the most spectacular ones, and gain a thorough understanding of these celestial events
Planetary alignment is an astronomical term used to describe the event when several planets gather closely on one side of the Sun at the same time.
Planetary parade is a colloquial term that means, in the broadest sense, that several planets are present in the sky in one night.
Now let's find out when the planets will align next time.
What planets are visible during the alignment of planets 2023?
On the morning of June 17, five planets – Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus, and Mercury – will line up within a 93-degree sky sector. Watch the p...
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- What Is The Biggest Black Hole In The Universe? New NASA Video Shows How Big Black Holes Really Are
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- 3 months ago
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- @TheCosmosNews New NASA video shows just how big black holes really are
There are 40 billion billion black holes in the universe. Here’s how our Solar System stacks up against ten of them.
A new NASA animation highlights the “super” in supermassive black holes. These monsters lurk in the centers of most big galaxies, including our own Milky Way, and contain between 100,000 and tens of billions of times more mass than our Sun.
All monster black holes are not equal. Watch this video to see how they compare to each other and to our solar system. The black holes shown, which range from 100,000 to more than 60 billion times our Sun’s mass, are scaled according to the sizes of their shadows – a circular zone about twice the size of their event horizons. Only one of these colossal objects resides in our own galaxy, and it lies 26,000 light-years away. Smaller black holes are shown in bluish colors because their gas is expected to be hotter than that ...
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- Campi Flegrei Super Volcano In Italy Edges Closer To Eruption@TheCosmosNews
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- 4 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews The Campi Flegrei volcano in southern Italy has become weaker and more prone to rupturing, making an eruption more likely, according to a new study by researchers at UCL (University College London) and Italy's National Research Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).
The volcano, which last erupted in 1538, has been restless for more than 70 years, with two-year spikes of unrest in the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s, and a slower phase of unrest over the last decade. Tens of thousands of small earthquakes have occurred during these periods and the coastal town of Pozzuoli has been lifted by nearly 4 m (13 ft), roughly the height of a double-decker bus.
The new study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, used a model of volcano fracturing, developed at UCL, to interpret the patterns of earthquakes and ground uplift, and concluded that parts of the volcano had been stretched nearly to breaking point.
Lead author Professor Christop...
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- China's Groundbreaking 10,000-Meter Journey Into The Cretaceous System@TheCosmosNews
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- 4 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews China has started digging a borehole 11,100 metres in depth in the Tarim Basin, located deep within the Taklimakan Desert, which is the largest desert in China, according to a report by Xinhua. The purpose of the borehole is for scientific exploration, with researchers intending to find out what is deep within the surface of the Earth. The interior of the planet is challenging to study by scientists because of how remote and inaccessible it is.
If successful, the effort will result in the deepest borehole in China, and the first one to exceed a depth of 10,000 metres. The hole is expended to pass through 10 layers of continental strata, going back to the Cretaceous period. However, this will not be the deepest artificial hole, which is a record held by the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, which reached a depth of 12,262 metres. The Al Shaheen Oil Well actually had a longer borehole in the pure distance, while not reaching the same depth, and measured 12,28...
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- Gargantuan Geyser on Saturn's Moon Enceladus, Spewing Water 9600 Km into Space, Captured by JWST
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- 4 months ago
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- @TheCosmosNews What is going on in space? We have a new picture with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that has captured a mesmerizing spectacle on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Startling images reveal a colossal plume of watery vapor erupting from the moon's surface and stretching far into the reaches of space. What's more, this colossal plume is believed to contain the chemical ingredients necessary for life!
Scientists at a Space Telescope Science Institute conference in Baltimore on May 17 unveiled the astonishing discovery. Sara Faggi, a planetary astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, described the sight as "immense" during the conference, as reported by Nature. Although a comprehensive research paper on this extraordinary plume is still pending, initial revelations have astounded scientists.
Two images of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The insert is an image from NASA’s Cassini probe. The larger blue image shows a geyser’s massive and fast-sprayi...
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- Huge Star Exploded in M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy and You Can See It @TheCosmosNews
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- 4 months ago
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- A Supernova Just Exploded So Close A Backyard Telescope Can See It
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- The Atacama Desert 15cm Tall Alien-Looking Skeleton Revealed As A Human Girl@TheCosmosNews
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- 4 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews With its cone-shaped skull, slanted eye sockets and ten pairs of ribs, this minuscule mummy found in the Atacama desert left scientists scratching their heads for years.
Discovered by treasure hunter Oscar Muño, the strange remains were nicknamed 'Ata'.
The strange, mummified bones were found in 2003 inside a leather pouch wrapped in a white cloth, which was tied with a purple ribbon.
Found in an abandoned church in a deserted mining town called La Noria, located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the six-inch body's strange slanted eye sockets, cone-shaped skull and ten pairs of ribs (not the usual human amount of 12), left some speculating the find was of alien origin.
Following the UFO documentary, Sirius, which backed the alien theory, UFO theorists descended on the abandoned mining town.
First thought to be ancient, analysis on the remains later concluded that the mummified corpse died in the 1970s.
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- Betelgeuse Supernova: Most Fascinating Star In Our Sky Inches Closer To Exploding@TheCosmosNews
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- 4 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Is Betelgeuse getting ready to explode?
A new, unexpected brightening has astronomers watching Betelgeuse just 3 years after a massive dimming event. Is a supernova imminent?
Betelgeuse, usually the 10th brightest star in the sky, has brightened over the past month to creep up to 7th place on the list of most luminous stars. Although Betelgeuse is an intrinsically variable star, we don't yet know: is this just a normal phase in its variability, or is it preparing to go supernova? An unexpected source, the humble neutrino, will be the only indication we have as far as the advance warning goes. The truth is, it could go at any time.
Since 1604, astronomers have awaited the Milky Way’s next naked-eye supernova.
In Earth’s skies, this explosion will match the full Moon’s brightness, but be concentrated at a single point.
Betelgeuse’s Brightening Raises Hopes for a Supernova Spectacle
Betelgeuse, the red star at the shoulder of the ...
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- Scientists Finally Confirm What's Inside The Moon@TheCosmosNews
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- 5 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews A thorough investigation has found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density similar to that of iron. This, researchers hope, will help settle a long debate about whether the Moon's inner heart is solid or molten, and lead to a more accurate understanding of the Moon's history – and, by extension, that of the Solar System.
"Our results," writes a team led by astronomer Arthur Briaud of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in France, "question the evolution of the Moon magnetic field thanks to its demonstration of the existence of the inner core and support a global mantle overturn scenario that brings substantial insights on the timeline of the lunar bombardment in the first billion years of the Solar System."
Probing the interior composition of objects in the Solar System is most effectively accomplished through seismic data. The way acoustic waves generated by quakes move through and reflect from ...
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- Exploding Stars( Supernovas) Threaten Earth with Extinction-Level Event@TheCosmosNews
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- 5 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Are we doomed? Can we protect our planet from this cosmic catastrophe? The countdown has begun, and only time will tell if we can rise to the challenge and shield ourselves from the deadly X-rays of exploding stars.
Get ready for the ultimate space scare! Our fragile existence on Earth is under siege by a new, terrifying threat from the great beyond. A recent study reveals that exploding stars could send X-rays hurtling through the universe, wiping out life on our precious blue marble.
Death Rays from the Stars
Astronomers, armed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other advanced telescopes, have discovered that X-rays generated by stellar explosions can impact planets over 100 light-years away, including Earth. This explosive news means that stars pose a far greater danger to our planet than previously thought.
The threat lies in the colossal blast waves produced by exploding stars. These cosmic eruptions generate massive doses of X-ray...
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- Never Before Seen UFO Videos Captured By Reaper Drone Declassified by U.S. Military@TheCosmosNews
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- 5 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Never before seen UFO videos have been declassified by the U.S military during a Senate meeting.
A Senate hearing of the Anomaly Resolution Office at the Department of Defense featured a video from the Middle East of an orb flying through the air observed by a US drone.
Dr Sean Kirkpatrick from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office at the Pentagon told a Senate Armed Services subcommittee on Wednesday that hundreds of instances of oddly shaped objects seen by US pilots are still being investigated.
Most of the hundreds of cases being followed by the Pentagon are based on “readily explainable” data, he said.
“In our research, AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology or objects that defy the known laws of physics,” Dr Kirkpatrick said, according to CNN.
Dr Kirkpatrick serves as the director of the office which was established last year to look into the sightings. T...
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- Chaos-GPT:New AI Bot That Seeks to Destroy Humanity With Tsar Nuclear Bomb Is Online @TheCosmosNews
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- 5 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews ChaosGPT is the first public attempt to destroy humanity with AI. April 2023
ChaosGPT takes its mission seriously. Do you?
Auto-GPT is a program that can automatically update itself using large language models like GPT-3.5. “Self Prompting” or “Auto Prompting” is the jargon for this: The idea is to automate large language models to create useful agents.
There are several projects of this kind, with Auto-GPT specifically designed to develop a business idea from a given role and implement it step by step.
ChaosGPT aims to wipe out humanity
A macabre or entertaining experiment – depending on your point of view – is currently running on YouTube: “ChaosGPT” is a modified version of Auto-GPT running GPT 3.5 via OpenAI’s official API. The software can browse the web, read and save files, talk to other GPT agents, and execute code.
Chaos-GPT took its task seriously. It began by explaining it...
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- Lyrid Meteor Shower 2023: A Stargazing Spectacle Under Moonless Skies on April 23@TheCosmosNews
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- 6 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews The annual Lyrid meteor shower always brings an end to the meteor drought that occurs each year between January and mid-April.
When to watch in 2023: Late evening April 21 until dawn April 22 – or late evening April 22 until dawn April 23 – will be best. The predicted** peak is 1:06 UTC on April 23. And the peak of the Lyrids is narrow (no weeks-long stretches of meteor-watching, as with some showers). In 2023, new moon falls on April 19. Yay! No moon for 2023’s Lyrid meteor shower.
Radiant: Rises before midnight, highest in the sky at dawn.
Nearest moon phase: In 2023, new moon falls on April 19. There will be no moon in the sky during the peak mornings for 2023’s Lyrid meteor shower.
Duration of shower: April 15 to April 29.
Expected meteors at peak, under ideal conditions: In a dark sky with no moon, you might see 10 to 15 Lyrids per hour. The Lyrids are known for uncommon surges that can sometimes bring rates of up to 100 per hou...
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- Repeating Radio Signal Is Coming From Alien Planet Detected @TheCosmosNews
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- 6 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Astronomers have detected a repeating radio signal from an exoplanet and the star that it orbits, both located 12 light-years away from Earth. The signal suggests that the Earth-size planet may have a magnetic field and perhaps even an atmosphere.
Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet’s atmosphere, which life needs to survive, by deflecting energetic particles and plasma that stream out from the sun. Finding atmospheres around planets located outside of our solar system could point to other worlds that potentially have the ability to support life.
Scientists noticed strong radio waves coming from the star YZ Ceti and the rocky exoplanet that orbits it, called YZ Ceti b, during observations using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array of telescopes in New Mexico. The researchers believe the radio signal was created by interactions between the planet’s magnetic field and the star.
A study detailing the findings was published M...
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- Plants Feel Pain And Scream When Stems Are Cut Or Dried Crying Sound Recorded @TheCosmosNews
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- 6 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Listen: Plants Cry When Dehydrated Or Their stems Are Torn Screaming Sounds Recorded For The First Time.
Plants emit ultrasonic sounds in rapid bursts when stressed, scientists say
Thirsty or damaged plants produce up to 50 staccato pops in an hour, which nearby creatures may respond to, researchers find
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Scientists detect ultrasonic popping sounds from plants when they are deprived of water – audio
There comes a time in a plant’s life when the head sags, the leaves go pale and the body releases a barrage of sounds that are the ultrasonic equivalent of stamping on bubble wrap.
While any gardener is familiar with the wilting and discoloration that comes with drought, a shortage of water or a sudden wound can also prompt plants to produce staccato pops, which nearby creatures may respond to, scientists say.
The discovery, described as “exciting and thought-provoking” by one independent expert,...
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- Second Giant Hole Appears on Sun X-class solar flare EXPLODES spark blackouts in Asia@TheCosmosNews
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- 6 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews X-class solar flare EXPLODES, sparks blackouts in Asia! Solar storm shadow looms over Earth
A terrifyingly powerful X-class solar flare has erupted on the Sun today, March 29, causing radio blackouts in Australia and Southeast Asia. Now, the dark shadow of a solar storm is looming over Earth.
Giant ‘holes’ are appearing in the sun – what do they mean for our planet?1.8 million mph solar winds are headed our way from the star’s coronal holes
A coronal hole on the sun, about 20 Earths across, has been spotted.
These "holes" can send 1.8 million-mph solar winds toward Earth.
The winds should hit our planet Friday or Saturday and could create auroras, experts said.
A giant "hole" has appeared on the surface of the sun, and it could send 1.8 million-mph solar winds toward Earth by Friday.
It follows the discovery of a coronal hole on the sun 30 times the size of Earth. As this first "hole" be...
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- Our Sun Is Acting Weird in 2023 Gigantic Solar Tornado Raged For 3 Days@TheCosmosNews
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- 6 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Gigantic 'solar tornado' taller than 14 piles of earth raged for 3 days. What caused it? Our magnificent sun is a massive ball of plasma, and some of the most volatile phenomena occur in its atmosphere.
Recently, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observed a tornado whirling near the sun's North Pole. Reportedly, the height of boiling plasma grew to be nearly equivalent to 14 piles of earth combined, implying it could be the largest in the entire solar system.
Tornadoes on Earth are fueled by wind, whereas tornadoes on the Sun are shaped by magnetism.
The sun is a fiery, massive ball of boiling gas and plasma made up of hot, charged particles. As these move around the sun, they generate magnetic fields that twist and form a spiral – eventually erupting vast clouds of plasma into surrounding space.
This tornado-like occurrence lasted three weeks before finally collapsing. According to SpaceWeather, the rotating ...
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- Five planets Align For The Visible Eye On March 28@TheCosmosNews
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- 6 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Five planets will all be visible from Earth this month at exactly the same time.
This year will be a great time for spotting planets, with five of them will be visible in the sky at the end of March in a rare display.
Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, and Mars are going to gather from March 28 in a close sky sector (50-degrees) which stargazers should keep an eye out for in the evening.
According to the app Star Walk, from sunset the "two bright objects" Jupiter (magnitude -2.1) and Mercury (magnitude -1.3) will be seen near the horizon, in the constellation Pisces.
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Further up, in the constellation of Aries is where Venus will be with a magnitude of -4.0, while strong binoculars are advised if you want to catch a glimpse of Uranus with a magnitude of 5.8 near to Venus.
Higher up in the sky, Mars will sit, near the first quarter Moon in the constellation Gem...
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- Is The JWST Captured Trace Of An Extraterrestrial Civilization? Dyson Sphere Or Gargantuan Blackhole
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- 6 months ago
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- Here is the full video link: https://youtu.be/9I_s1uERj7k
Is this strange golden-colored object a trace of Extraterrestrial Civilization Or could it be a gargantuan blackhole? what is this strange metallic-looking object? #shorts #dysonsphere #jwst
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- Is The JWST Captured Trace Of An Extraterrestrial Civilization? Dyson Sphere Or Gargantuan Blackhole
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- 6 months ago
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- @TheCosmosNews #thecosmosnews NASA has shared an image from the James Webb Space Telescope that could help astronomers one day answer longstanding questions about our universe. The capture you see in this picture shows WR 124, a star located in the constellation Sagittarius,
approximately 15,000 light years away from Earth. When the JWST first sighted WR 124 in June 2022, it captured the star undergoing a Wolf-Rayet phase. According to NASA, only some massive stars go through such a transition before they eventually explode. Those that do are among the largest and most luminous celestial bodies in the night sky.
In the case of WR 124, NASA estimates the star is 30 times the mass of the Sun and has so far shed about 10 Suns worth of material. Over time, the gas Wolf-Rayet stars expel will cool and form cosmic dust.
But isn’t only JWST that captured this pre supernova there is something else found in this picture if you look carefully.
In ...
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- Star On The Brink Of Going Supernova Spotted by James Webb Space Telescope@TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews NASA has shared an image from the James Webb Space Telescope that could help astronomers one day answer longstanding questions about our universe. The capture you see above shows WR 124, a star located in the constellation Sagittarius, approximately 15,000 light years away from Earth. When the JWST first sighted WR 124 in June 2022, it captured the star undergoing a Wolf-Rayet phase. According to NASA, only some massive stars go through such a transition before they eventually explode. Those that do are among the largest and most luminous celestial bodies in the night sky. In the case of WR 124, NASA estimates the star is 30 times the mass of the Sun and has so far shed about 10 Suns worth of material. Over time, the gas Wolf-Rayet stars expel will cool and form cosmic dust.
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- Massive Cloud Of Water Floating In Deep Space Discovered In Orion Nebula@TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Earth's Life-Nourishing Water Came From Interstellar Space, Scientists Find
Earth’s water originated in interstellar space more than five billion years ago, making it more ancient than the Sun, reports a new study that reveals fascinating insights about the evolution of water in budding star systems. The finding will inform efforts to find other water-hosting habitable planets.
Astronomers captured an unprecedented glimpse of water vapor surrounding the baby star V883 Orionis, located some 1,300 light years from Earth, enabling them to measure the ratio of two key versions of water for the first time in a developing star system. The results revealed that the composition of water in the V883 Orionis system is very similar to water content in many bodies of our own solar system, a discovery that adds weight to the theory that much of Earth’s water is sourced from interstellar dust grains that existed before the birth of the Sun.
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- Ningaloo Hybrid Total Solar Eclipse Of 20 April 2023 Where Will It Be Visible?@TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- @TheCosmosNews Here Is The Full Video Link: https://youtu.be/JJPJitQL5Z0
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#solareclipse
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- An Ultra Rare Hybrid Solar Eclipse is Coming in April 20-2023@TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews This year's first solar eclipse will occur on April 20 from 7:04 am till 12:29 pm IST - called as the ‘Ningaloo solar eclipse’ or ‘hybrid solar eclipse, people can view it through live telecasts from other countries. After this, only one more solar eclipse will occur this year on October 14.
What is a Hybrid Solar Eclipse?
A hybrid Solar Eclipse occurs when there is a combination of an annular eclipse and a total solar eclipse and is caused when the moon's shadow moves across Earth - making a transition to another. During this rare eclipse, the Sun forms a ring-like shape - known as the ‘ring of fire’ - for a few seconds.
Where will it be visible - Date and Time
The eclipse will be visible from Australia, East and South Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Antarctica, and the Indian Ocean, however, not in India. During the ‘annual ring of fire’ - it will be visible for a few seconds in the Indian and Pacific oceans. Meanwhile, the total e...
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- Newly Discovered Comet Could Outshine The Brightest Stars Next Year
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Here Is The Full Video Link: https://youtu.be/DNksV2GRRNU
For untold eons, a comet has been drifting through space, paying a visit to Earth every 80,000 years or so. This time, astronomers were on the lookout and gave it a name: C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). It’s a clunky moniker, but you ought to remember it. Next year, this object could become one of the brightest in the night sky as it passes close to Earth.
Astronomers discovered this long-period comet using the Purple Mountain Observatory in China and the ATLAS telescope in Hawaii (hence the name). The object initially appeared in data from January 2023, but its presence was not noticed until late February. Like many comets, it is in a long elliptical orbit that takes it to the solar system’s outer reaches before the sun’s gravity tugs it back. Its orbit is still in flux after its recent discovery, but astronomers calculate it completes one orbit every 80,660. Following its discovery, astron...
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- Approaching New Comet Will Outshine All the Stars in the Sky Next Year@TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Newly Discovered Comet Could Outshine The Brightest Stars Next Year
A comet visiting the inner solar system for the first time in 80,000 years – or possibly ever – should be the best for several years, putting 2023’s “green comet” in the shade.
A comet that will make a (somewhat) close approach to the Earth in September 2024 is already creating excitement among amateur astronomers. Comets are unpredictable beasts, and a great many have proven disappointing – but C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has many of the characteristics required to put on the best display for at least a decade.
Comets visit the inner solar system quite frequently, but few can be seen with the naked eye. Most are either regular visitors (short period) that have been slowly losing material on previous approaches to the Sun and don’t have enough left to be very bright. Others never get close enough to Earth to put on a show.
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS passes bot...
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- NASA tracking asteroid that may hit Earth on Valentine’s Day 2046 @TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- NASA is tracking an asteroid that may hit Earth on Valentine’s Day 2046
NASA is currently tracking the asteroid 2023 DW, which will closely approach Earth on February 14, 2046, and even presents a minor threat of crashing into our planet.
Here Is the Full Video link: https://youtu.be/Cw7j76OfNtA
#asteroids #shorts
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- Newly Found Asteroid Has Small Chance Of Hitting Earth On Feb 14-2046 @TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews NASA has discovered an asteroid that could hit Earth on Valentine's Day 2046.
The space agency said asteroid 2023 DW has "a very small chance" of impacting Earth.
The asteroid was first discovered in Chile at the end of February.
After a week’s worth of observations, NASA came to the conclusion it currently has a 1 in 560 chance of hitting Earth on February 14, 2046.
"Orbit analysts will continue to monitor asteroid 2023 DW and update predictions as more data comes in," NASA said.
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- Heartbeat Signal Detected From the Sun@TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews A team of researchers has made an unusual discovery: a series of "heartbeat"-like radio bursts emanating from a solar flare thousands of miles above the Sun's surface — and they're still trying to figure out what caused them.
As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the international team of scientists pinpointed the location of intense beating bursts of radio waves to a C-class solar flare, a strong eruption of electromagnetic radiation.
The research could help scientists make sense of the turmoil occurring on the Sun's surface.
"The discovery is unexpected," said Sijie Yu, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) astronomer, and corresponding author, in a statement. "This beating pattern is important for understanding how energy is released and is dissipated in the Sun's atmosphere during these incredibly powerful explosions on the Sun."
Yet plenty of questions remain.
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- JWST Shatters the Big Bang Theory 6 Galaxies Found Older Than Universe Itself @TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Here Is the Original Video Link: https://youtu.be/o0ggBZDmcTc
JAMES WEB SPACE Telescope Discovers Galaxies Almost Older Than Bigbang
"The End of the Big Bang Theory: What Does It Mean for Our Understanding of the Universe?"
"JWST Shatters the Big Bang Theory: Unveiling New Insights into the Origins of the Universe"
Six massive galaxies discovered in the early universe are upending what scientists previously understood about the origins of galaxies in the universe.
#jwst #bigbang #shorts
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- Webb Space Telescope Found Massive Objects That Shouldn't Exist In Deep Space@TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews
JAMES WEB SPACE Telescope Discovers Galaxies Almost Older Than Bigbang
"The End of the Big Bang Theory: What Does It Mean for Our Understanding of the Universe?"
"JWST Shatters the Big Bang Theory: Unveiling New Insights into the Origins of the Universe"
Six massive galaxies discovered in the early universe are upending what scientists previously understood about the origins of galaxies in the universe.
“These objects are way more massive than anyone expected,” said Joel Leja, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, who modeled light from these galaxies. “We expected only to find tiny, young, baby galaxies at this point in time, but we’ve discovered galaxies as mature as our own in what was previously understood to be the dawn of the universe.”
Using the first dataset released from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the international team of scientists discovered objects as mature ...
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- Incredible Video Of Mercury Transit Across Sun`s Face Captured by Solar Orbiter @TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Tuesday, the European Space Agency shared a stunning video its Solar Orbiter captured of Mercury moving across the horizon of the Sun. The video shared online puts the Sun's massive scope into full view, even thrusting some of us into a downright existential spiral. The video was captured using the Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), allow researchers to capture the first planet of the Sun just as it passed in front of the star's gaseous structures.
#shorts #mercurytransit
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- Incredible Video Of Mercury Transit Across Sun`s Face Captured by Solar Orbiter@TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Tuesday, the European Space Agency shared a stunning video its Solar Orbiter captured of Mercury moving across the horizon of the Sun. The video shared online puts the Sun's massive scope into full view, even thrusting some of us into a downright existential spiral. The video was captured using the Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), allow researchers to capture the first planet of the Sun just as it passed in front of the star's gaseous structures.
"It's not just looking at Mercury passing in front of the Sun, but passing in front of the different layers of the atmosphere," Miho Janvier, an official with the ESA said in a press release.
While the capturing of the video is wonderful enough in its own right, the event allowed the ESA to tweak its instruments aboard the Solar Orbiter to allow it to capture even better photos and images in the future.
"Most recently, transits have become the most successful way to find pl...
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- Weirdest Asteroid Ever Discovered? Nasa Pictured Very Long Oblong Shaped Object@TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- The full Video Link Is Here: https://youtube.com/shorts/CGgY4t02-vI
#thecosmosnews NASA Photographs One Of The Longest Asteroids Ever Found 1600-foot, an oddly shaped asteroid as big as Empire State Building tracked down by NASA
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has captured a detailed view of an elongated asteroid over a couple of days. Here's what has been revealed.
Imagine this hurtling through space: Scientists have found an asteroid with dimensions similar to the Empire State Building.
#shorts #asteroid
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- Strangest Asteroid Ever Discovered? Nasa Pictured Very Long Oblong Shaped Object@TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews NASA Photographs One Of The Longest Asteroids Ever Found 1600-foot, oddly shaped asteroid as big as Empire State Building tracked down by NASA
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has captured a detailed view of an elongated asteroid over a couple of days. Here's what has been revealed.
magine this hurtling through space: Scientists have found an asteroid with dimensions similar to the Empire State Building.
This asteroid, which recently sped past Earth, has caught the attention of NASA astronomers for its bizarre long shape. The space rock — which has perhaps whizzed by to set the record straight that not all asteroids are vaguely ball-like — is more than three times as long as it is wide.
To get a sense of its scale, scientists have estimated the rock is about 1,600-by-500 feet, roughly comparable to that of the world-famous landmark that looms over 100 stories above New York.
"Of the 1,040 near-Earth objects observe...
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- Leonardo Da Vinci's Forgotten Sketches Almost Decoded Gravity Centuries Ago @TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews #leonardodavinci full video link is here: https://youtu.be/b6AnSKbw1vA
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- Perfect Explosion: Merger of Neutron Stars Creates Perfect Sphere in Deep Space @TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Full video link is here: https://youtu.be/6mguKXs-w_U
#kilonova #supernova
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- Colliding Neutron Stars Created a Kilonova Sphere So Perfect It's Shocked Physicists@TheCosmosNews
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- 7 months ago
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- #thecosmosnews Perfect Explosion’: Merger of Neutron Stars Creates Spherical Cosmic Blast
When neutron stars collide they produce an explosion that, contrary to what was believed until recently, is shaped like a perfect sphere. Although how this is possible is still a mystery, the discovery may provide a new key to fundamental physics and to measuring the age of the Universe. The discovery was made by astrophysicists from the University of Copenhagen and has just been published in the journal Nature.
Kilonovae—the giant explosions that occur when two neutron stars orbit each other and finally collide—are responsible for creating both great and small things in the universe, from black holes to the atoms in the gold ring on your finger and the iodine in our bodies. They give rise to the most extreme physical conditions in the Universe, and it is under these extreme conditions that the Universe creates the heaviest elements of the periodic table, such as gold, pla...
