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Asteroid Only Gets Detected After Close Flyby
While the asteroid swept past our planet at a distance smaller than the one between Earth and the moon, astronomers only noticed the space rock two days later. It turns out that our planet had an unannounced visitor last week, when asteroid 2020 LD whizzed past Earth at about 80 percent of the moon’s distance, EarthSky reports. According to the … Continue reading
A Ring Of Fire Eclipse Will Darken Skies After The Summer Solstice
Fans of eclipses rejoice: 2020 has several lunar eclipses and two solar eclipses coming up. The first one will be an annular solar eclipse on June 21, the day after the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The path of totality will go from Central Africa, through the Arabian Peninsula, India, China, Taiwan, and finally the Pacific. A partial eclipse … Continue reading
FIVE More Space Rocks Headed Towards Earth, Highlighting Need for Planetary Defense Initiatives
NASA’s planetary defense network is warning of yet another barrage of five asteroids due to enter Earth’s backyard this week, in the latest test of our early-warning systems and preparedness in the face of space-based threats. The opening salvo will consist of two asteroids, 2013 XA22 and 2020 KZ3, measuring 310 feet and 64 feet, which will pass Earth at … Continue reading
Mystifyingly Recurrent Pattern of Cosmic Radio Bursts Picked Up From Parallel Galaxy
Five-year in-depth monitoring with the help of a brand-new UK-based telescope has led scientists to conclude the origins of landmark FRBs could potentially be traced through analysis of how regularly they pop up on Earth’s radars. After one of the cosmic studies prompted astronomers to reconsider the theory that FRBs are one-off events, the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, which … Continue reading
Astronomers May Have Found ‘Mirror Image’ of the Sun & Earth in the Depths of Space
The scientists warned that they still require more data to confirm that their discovery is indeed a planet and not some “statistical fluke or a systematic measurement error”. A massive exoplanet that orbits a star located some 3,000 light years away from our world was discovered by scientists who suggest that it may be potentially habitable, Fox News reports citing … Continue reading
Scientists Engineer Human Cells to Have Transparent Abilities
Octopuses, squids and other sea creatures can perform a disappearing act by using specialized tissues in their bodies to manipulate the transmission and reflection of light, and now researchers at the University of California, Irvine have engineered human cells to have similar transparent abilities. In a paper published today in Nature Communications, the scientists described how they drew inspiration from … Continue reading
Strongest Solar Flares in Years Coincide with Riots, A Reminder Solar Activity and Unrest Historically Linked
With so many dramatic and consuming events taking place in our world, it’s easy to forget that as human beings we are deeply affected by all of the cosmic events taking place in the universe around us. We are beings of frequency in a universe made of energy. Major civil unrest, protesting and rioting began to foment in the United … Continue reading
Earth 2.0? Proxima b More Earth-Like Than Previously Thought
The closest known extrasolar planet may also be one of the most Earth-like worlds ever discovered. Situated only 4.2 light years away in orbit around the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the terrestrial planet Proxima b, which was first discovered back in August 2016, could be a genuine Earth 2.0. Previous studies had suggested that this neighboring world was around … Continue reading
Incredible Material Could be Used to Make a Liquid Metal Robot
Maybe this could be the humble beginings of the T-1000 robots from the Terminator movies. via Physics World: A liquid metal lattice that can be crushed but returns to its original shape on heating has been developed by Pu Zhang and colleagues at Binghamton University in the US. The material is held together by a silicone shell and could find … Continue reading
Which Country Will Make First Contact with ET ?
It would seem China is about to take the lead in the global effort to detect an alien signal. via unexplained mysteries: When we think of what a first contact situation might be like, we tend to imagine either a global collaborative effort, or the stereotypical ‘UFO landing on the White House lawn’ type scenario. The same perception of global … Continue reading
