The Cosmos News
Scientists Finally Confirm What's Inside The Moon@TheCosmosNews
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- Scientists Finally Confirm What's Inside The Moon@TheCosmosNews
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- 12 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews News Update:https://youtu.be/bqjMJPJKfpo
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
Ian Sample
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 ...
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- Second Giant Hole Appears on Sun X-class solar flare EXPLODES spark blackouts in Asia@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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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- 1 year 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...
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- Leonardo Da Vinci's Forgotten Sketches Almost Decoded Gravity Centuries Ago@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews 500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Sketches Show Him Grappling With Gravity
Da Vinci fiddled with gravity as a type of acceleration and got close to calculating the gravitational constant.
Da Vinci's Forgotten Experiments Almost Decoded Gravity Centuries Ago
Before Galileo, Newton and Einstein, there was a man named Leonardo da Vinci.In 1907, Albert Einstein presented the world with a startling truth about our universe. Gravity, he realized, isn't quite as strange and mysterious as it feels.
Rather, it's kind of the same thing as acceleration -- a force we're very used to thinking about on the regular. He called it the equivalence principle, and soon, this eye-opening concept would blossom into the mind-bending theory of general relativity. The rest, as they say, is history.
On Monday, however, engineers with the California Institute of Technology revealed a fascinating new plot point to the story of humanity's gravitational musin...
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- Mysterious Spokes Moving Along Saturn's Rings Captured by Hubble: What Makes Them?@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews NASA Spots Mysterious Spokes Moving Along Saturn's Rings NASA and ESA's Hubble Space Telescope is investigating a "fascinating magic trick of nature."
There's something unusual happening in a new Hubble Space Telescope image of scenic ringed planet Saturn. The view is spectacular on its own, but zoom in on the left side of its rings and look for a couple of dark, shadowy spots. Those are "spokes."
The enigmatic spokes appear and disappear seasonally. Saturn experiences four seasons, but it takes a long time to work through them, with each season lasting about seven years. The planet is crawling toward autumnal equinox in its northern hemisphere in early 2025, but it's already entered into what NASA calls "spoke season." It's prime time for Hubble observations to investigate the spokes.
Hubble is a joint project from NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA released a video to go along with the new Hubble image. It includes footage showing...
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- Huge Asteroid Rushing Towards Earth On Valentine's Day At 12341kmph@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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On February 14, which is widely celebrated as Valentine's Day, a huge asteroid will come very close to Earth. US space agency, NASA, which keeps an eye on the asteroids coming close to the Earth, confirmed that a giant asteroid will be making a very close approach to Earth. This huge space rock named Asteroid 2023 CP will rocket past Earth at a distance of just 4.09 million miles, NASA has calculated the approximate size of the asteroid at around 110 feet, almost as big as an airplane. Though this may seem quite far away, the distance is not that much in terms of the vastness of space, hence NASA has flagged it as a 'close approach'.
Danger of asteroid on Valentine's Day
The near-Earth asteroid 2023 CP was discovered on February 08, 2023, and belongs to the Amor group. With an orbital period of 624 days, it makes one complete orbit around the Sun. The asteroid's aphelion, which is its farthest point from the Sun, lies at a distance of 275...
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- A Part Of Sun Breaks Off, Forms A Strange Vortex; Baffles Scientists@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews The sun’s surface material breaking off and creating a tornado-like whirl around its northern pole has perplexed scientists.
Something Strange Is Happening on the Sun, and We've Never Seen It Before
Dr Tamitha Skov, a space weather forecaster, tweeted about the phenomenon that was captured by NASA using the James Webb Space Telescope.
“Talk about Polar Vortex!” she wrote last week. “Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star. Implications for understanding the Sun’s atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!”
Unusual activity typically occurs at the sun’s 55 degree latitudes once every 11-year solar cycle, according to experts, but this incident is stumping researchers.
According to specialists, unusual activity usually occurs near the sun’s 55 degree latitudes during per 11-yea...
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- Dwarf Planet With An Impossible Ring Found And Scientists Unsure How It Exists@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews There’s a Ring Around This Dwarf Planet. It Shouldn’t Be There.
Quaoar, which orbits the sun in the distant Kuiper belt, is the latest small object shown to have a ring like the ones around Saturn.
A small icy world far beyond Neptune possesses a ring like the ones around Saturn. Perplexingly, the ring is at a distance where simple gravitational calculations suggest there should be none.
“That’s very strange,” said Bruno Morgado, a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Dr. Morgado is the lead author of a paper published in the journal Nature on Wednesday that describes the ring that encircles Quaoar, a planetary body about 700 miles in diameter that orbits the sun at a distance of about four billion miles.
Quaoar (pronounced KWA-wahr, the name of the creator god for the Indigenous Tongva people who live around Los Angeles) is a little less than half the diameter of Pluto and about a third o...
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- Scientists Find Strange, Unidentified Structure Hidden Under Earth’s Tectonic Plates@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #theccosmosnews The new Layer found hidden under the earth’s crust could shed light on tectonic plate movement, according to the researchers.
A long-running controversy over how tectonic plates move may finally be resolved thanks to the discovery by scientists of a new layer of partially molten rock under the Earth’s crust.
Patches of melt have previously been found by researchers at a comparable depth. However, a recent research headed by The University of Texas at Austin showed the layer’s global size and role in plate tectonics for the first time.
The findings were published in the journal Nature Geoscience today.
The asthenosphere, which lies in the upper mantle under the Earth’s tectonic plates, contains the molten layer, which is roughly 100 miles from the surface. As a relatively supple border that permits tectonic plates to migrate through the mantle, the asthenosphere is crucial for plate tectonics.
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- Green Comet ZTF Set for 'Cosmic Meeting' With Mars in Sky This Week@TheCosmosNews
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- Full Video Link Is Here: https://youtu.be/7QMiNY0akG0
#greencomet #cometztf #mars #comet #nakedeyecomet #comet2023
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- Green Comet ZTF Set for 'Cosmic Meeting' With Mars in Sky This Week @TheCosmosNews
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- #thecosmosnews The green comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is set for a "cosmic meeting" with Mars in the sky this week—and here's how you can watch the celestial event live from the comfort of your own home.
The comet was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)—an astronomical survey conducted by the Palomar Observatory, near San Diego in California—on March 2, 2022.
Comets are astronomical objects made up of frozen gases, dust and rock that orbit the sun. Sometimes referred to as "cosmic snowballs," these objects are blasted with increasing amounts of radiation as they approach our star, releasing gases and debris.
This process forms a glowing atmosphere around the comet's nucleus, known as a coma—which, in the case of C/2022 E3 (ZTF), appears green. There are also two vast tails of gas and dust.
The cosmic snowball has already made its closest approach to both the sun and Earth—on January 12 and February 1, 2023, respectively. It is now ...
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- Neanderthals Hunted Massive Elephants @TheCosmosNews
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Full Video Link: https://youtu.be/09R-Dy3Yub4
Some 125,000 years ago, enormous elephants that weighed as much as eight cars each roamed in what’s now northern Europe.
Scientifically known as Palaeoloxodon antiquus, the towering animals were the largest land mammals of the Pleistocene, standing more than 13 feet (4 meters) high. Despite this imposing size, the now-extinct straight-tusked elephants were routinely hunted and systematically butchered for their meat by Neanderthals, according to a new study of the remains of 70 of the animals found at a site in central Germany known as Neumark-Nord, near the city of Halle. #antropology #neanderthal
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- Neanderthals Hunted Massive Elephants That Once Roamed Northern Europe@TheCosmosNews
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- #thecosmosnews Some 125,000 years ago, enormous elephants that weighed as much as eight cars each roamed in what’s now northern Europe.
Scientifically known as Palaeoloxodon antiquus, the towering animals were the largest land mammals of the Pleistocene, standing more than 13 feet (4 meters) high. Despite this imposing size, the now-extinct straight-tusked elephants were routinely hunted and systematically butchered for their meat by Neanderthals, according to a new study of the remains of 70 of the animals found at a site in central Germany known as Neumark-Nord, near the city of Halle.
The discovery is shaking up what we know about how the extinct hominins, who existed for more than 300,000 years before disappearing about 40,000 years ago, organized their lives. Neanderthals were extremely skilled hunters, knew how to preserve meat and lived a more settled existence in groups that were larger than many scholars had envisaged, the research has suggested.
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- Incredible Video Shows Exoplanets Circling a Star 133 Light-Years Away@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews Scientist Releases Amazing Video of Exoplanets Orbiting Distant Star
In 2008, HR8799 was the first extrasolar planetary system ever directly imaged. Now, the famed system stars in its very own video.
Using observations collected over the past 12 years, Northwestern University astrophysicist Jason Wang has assembled a stunning time lapse video of the family of four planets — each more massive than Jupiter — orbiting their star. The video gives viewers an unprecedented glimpse into planetary motion.
“It’s usually difficult to see planets in orbit,” Wang said. “For example, it isn’t apparent that Jupiter or Mars orbit our sun because we live in the same system and don’t have a top-down view. Astronomical events either happen too quickly or too slowly to capture in a movie. But this video shows planets moving on a human time scale. I hope it enables people to enjoy something wondrous.”
An expert in exoplanet ima...
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- Mars Bear? ‘Bear face’ discovered on the surface of Mars in the new satellite photo@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews Astronomers Just Discovered a 'Bear' on Mars Facial pareidolia is the human tendency or illusion of seeing facial structures in everyday objects – such as seeing the "man in the Moon," or the face of Jesus on a piece of toast.
But here's a newly found crater on Mars that might be a case of 'bear-adoilia.'
There's no denying, the crater looks like a bear's face. We've seen some crazy craters on Mars over the years from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) – like the famous smiley face, or an elephant and a bird.
But what could possibly create the weird feature in the middle of the crater that is shaped like a bear's snout?
"There's a hill with a V-shaped collapse structure (the nose), two craters (the eyes), and a circular fracture pattern (the head)," said HiRISE principal investigator Alfred McEwen. "The circular fracture pattern might be due to the settling o...
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- Earth’s Inner Core Just Stopped Spinning And Then Flipped Its Direction@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews Deep in the center of the Earth is the inner core, which spans roughly 746 miles and is composed of primarily pure, solid iron, NASA explains. Though we’ve long believed – and research has shown – that the inner core rotates, a new study suggests it may have “paused” its spin and could even have reversed.
The liquid outer core that surrounds the inner core causes Earth’s magnetic field. According to NASA, as the molten iron and nickel in the outer core move, they create electrical currents that result in a magnetic field. The outer core also allows the inner core to spin on its own, Nature explains.
Though scientists can’t track the core directly, they can analyze seismic waves caused by earthquakes – and Cold War-era nuclear weapon tests – as they reach the core. That’s what study co-authors Yi Yang and Xiaodong Song, seismologists at Peking University in Beijing, did for their new research, which was published in the Natur...
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- Gigantic Undersea Volcano Near Santorini Island Reawaken 'Poses Serious Threat'@TheCosmosNews
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- #thecosmosnews 2023 Magma Rising in Kolumbo Underwater Volcano Chamber Threatens Santorini
Surprise magma chamber found under Mediterranean Sea volcano near popular tourist destination
Magma chamber found beneath submarine Kolumbo volcano just miles from Santorini
A new study has uncovered a previously undetected magma chamber beneath Kolumbo, an active submarine volcano in the Mediterranean Sea near Santorini, Greece.
A group of international researchers used a novel imaging technique for volcanoes that produces high-resolution images of seismic wave properties, according to a Jan. 12 release from the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
The study was published in the AGU journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, and the authors noted that the presence of the chamber "poses a serious hazard as it could produce a highly explosive, tsunamigenic eruption in the near future."
Researchers are recommending real-time hazard mo...
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- Best Bet For Alien Life:NASA’s TESS Discovers Planetary System’s Earth-Size World@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews Meet TOI-700’s exoplanets: Our best bet for alien life
Red dwarf stars were supposed to be inhospitable. But TOI-700, now with at least two potentially habitable worlds, is quite the exception.
Somewhere out there, likely right within the Milky Way lies the very first inhabited planet that humanity will discover. Although we don’t know which world it is or how long it will take us to find those critical, unambiguous biosignatures, we fully expect that progressively better and more suggestive observations will pave the road toward its discovery. After all, the ingredients for life are found all throughout the Universe, and each new stellar system that forms with rocky, terrestrial planets around it must be considered as a chance for something quite remarkable and unique to emerge.
Since 1990, we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets: planets in orbit around other stars. Many are approximately Earth-sized; many orbit their parent stars at the...
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- Russia Says It Shot Down a UFO @TheCosmosNews
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- #thecosmosnews Russia Claims Shooting Down UFO; Not The 1st Time Extraterrestrial Activity Reported Over Rostov Oblast
On January 3, a mysterious object that multiple news sources called a “UFO” was taken down by the Russian anti-aircraft weapons in the Rostov region of southern Russia.
The UFO, which witnesses defined as a “small-size object in the shape of a ball,” was spotted flying over the village of Sultan Sala at a distance of roughly one and a half miles.
Vasily Golubev, the governor of Rostov Oblast, first announced the news on his Telegram channel.
Golubev posted on Telegram that a “small-size object in the shape of a ball” had been observed flying “in the wind” at an altitude of about one and a half miles. After spotting it, local air defenses targeted the object and shot it down.
“I urge everyone to remain calm. To ensure security, all forces and means are involved. The sky is covered with anti-air...
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- Green Comet Last Seen By The Neanderthals 50.000 Years Ago Approaches Earth Again on February 2023
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- @TheCosmosNews #thecosmosnews A Green comet last seen by the Neanderthals is approaching Earth and could be seen by the naked eye sometime at the end of January and the beginning of February 2023.
The green comet, dubbed “C/2022 E3 (ZTF)” was discovered by astronomers in February 2022. It is currently too dim to be seen without a telescope.
The comet is estimated to complete an orbit of the Sun once every 50,000 years, meaning the last time we saw the comet was in the Upper Paleolithic period when humans began to expand throughout Asia and Europe.
The comet is currently on its approach to perihelion (its closest approach to the Sun), which will occur on January 12. It will be closest to Earth – known as at perigee – on February 1.
It will safely pass the Earth at a distance of about 44 million kilometers (27 million miles).
Around this point, it may be visible to the naked eye, though Sky at Night points out it w...
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- Happy New Year 2023:James Webb Space Telescope's Best 10 Images Of 2022@TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy.
Launched on December 25 last year and fully operational since July, the telescope offers glimpses of the universe that were inaccessible to us before. Like the Hubble Space Telescope, the JWST is in space, so it can take pictures with stunning detail free from the distortions of Earth’s atmosphere.
However, while Hubble is in orbit around Earth at an altitude of 335 miles (540 km), the JWST is 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) distant, far beyond the Moon. From this position, away from the interference of our planet’s reflected heat, it can collect light from across the universe far into the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
This ability, when combined with the JWST’s larger mirror, state-of-the-art detectors, and many other technological advances, allows astronomers to look back to the universe’s ear...
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- Using HAARP Scientists Hit An Asteroid With 9.6 Million Radio Waves @TheCosmosNews
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- 1 year ago
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- #thecosmosnews An Asteroid Is Passing Earth Today, so Scientists Are Shooting It With Radio Waves
Scientists plan to hit an asteroid with more than 9.6 million radio waves from HAARP
A 500-foot-wide asteroid called 2010 XC15 will pass by Earth on December 27. While it has no intention of hitting us, it’s us who will hit the asteroid with a radio pulse.
Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and NASA want to examine the 2010 XC15 space rock to test their preparation against Apophis.
This dangerous asteroid might hit our planet in 2029. It is believed that on April 13, 2029, Apophis will be 10 times closer to Earth than the moon.
The researchers will use the HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) array to shoot 9.6 megahertz radio waves at the 2010 XC15 asteroid.
HAARP is a government-funded research program that generally studies the ionosphere (part of Earth’s atmosphere at 50 t...
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- The Best Photos From Mars in 2022:Alien Doorway & Flying Spaghetti Monster@TheCosmosNews
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- #thecosmosnews The Best Photos From Mars in 2022
The coolest images of (and on) the Red Planet taken in the last year show craters, funky rocks, and human trash.
The Red Planet is desolate, freezing, and has an atmosphere 1% as dense as our own. Its winds blow in great gusts that kick up global dust storms that make and break Mars missions that rely on solar energy for power.
Thankfully, spacecraft on and above Mars keep us Earthlings up-to-date on the Martian weather and the best sightseeing of Martian wanderlust. Whether through the zoomed-in oculus of Perseverance’s WATSON camera or the all-seeing eye of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, these are the best images from Mars released this year.