China Plans to Build Earth-Orbiting Power Plants
Hopefully this becomes something positive rather and something for ‘power’ advantage. via sputniknews: Earlier this year, the country’s space program already made space exploration history by achieving humanity’s first-ever successful soft landing on the far side of the Moon. China has ambitious plans to construct a series of space-based solar farms, The Sydney Morning Herald has reported, citing China’s Science … Continue reading
Astronomers Seek Help to Capture Unusual Stellar Blackout
A rare and fleeting stellar blackout is being hailed by astronomers as the perfect opportunity to ask budding stargazers for help in accurately plotting the brightest object we can see from Earth. A 2.8-mile-wide (4.6km) asteroid called Jurgenstock will pass in front of the double star system Sirius on Monday night, briefly blocking its powerful shine and casting an eclipse-like … Continue reading
Earthquake Echoes Hint at ‘Lost World’ of Mountains Hidden Below
Unbelievably ‘alien’ world may exist below us! via unexplained-mysteries: Vast mountains that could be taller than Mt Everest are thought to exist hundreds of miles beneath the ground. The remarkable discovery was made by a team of geophysicists from China and the US who used the echoes of a major earthquake to piece together what the subterranean topography is actually … Continue reading
China’s Pyramids May be Astronomical Aligned
Much like Egypt’s pharaohs, the emperors of China’s Western Han dynasty had a thing for being buried inside pyramids – although less recognisable than the iconic ones we know from places like Giza. Scattered along the outskirts of Xi’an along the banks of China’s Wei River, the sides of these burial mounds align with the cardinal points. At least, some … Continue reading
Time Does Not Mend a Broken Heart; Scientists Find Condition Causes Long-Term Damage
Songwriters, poets and novelists have long mused over whether time truly heals everything. Charles Dickens toyed over whether the bitter Miss Haversham would ever recover from being jilted at the altar, and for many historians, Queen Victoria’s black dress came to symbolise her irreparable suffering over Prince Albert’s death. But a new study has apparently put their agonising to bed … Continue reading
Unknown Physical Phenomena in Earth’s Atmosphere Picked up by Russian Satellite
Discovery of previously unknown phenomena like this seems like just part of the battle, we would also have to find out if they are natural or being caused by our own activities or perhaps activities of those not of our world. via Sputniknews: An ultraviolet telescope installed on the Russian satellite Lomonosov has registered light “explosions” in the planet’s atmosphere, … Continue reading
NASA Says ‘This Time We Will Stay’, Wants to Send More Astronauts to the Moon
NASA is planning to take the “next giant leap in deep space exploration” as it looks to send astronauts to the moon who are able to stay there. The space agency’s administrator, Jim Bridenstine, called for American firms to help develop human lunar landers – “reusable systems for astronauts to land on the moon” – as he said scientists had … Continue reading
Space Agency Ups Possibility of Space Rock Colliding with Earth
One of the World’s foremost watchdogs for monitoring the threat giant space rocks pose to our planet has upped the risk level for a recently discovered asteroid. It’s the plot of numerous sci-fi novels and more than a few Hollywood blockbusters. Humans seemingly have a deeply ingrained fear of a big rock from space crashing into Earth and wiping out … Continue reading
Machine Causes Light to Behave in ‘Impossible’ Ways
Physicists have built a ring in which pulses of light whip circles around each other and the normal rules that govern light’s behavior no longer apply. Under normal circumstances, light displays certain kids of physical symmetry. First, if you were to play a tape of light’s behavior forward and then backward, you would see it behave in the same way … Continue reading
Supermassive Black Hole May be Pointed ‘Directly at Earth’
Astronomers have discovered that a radio jet from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way could be pointed almost directly towards the Earth. By incorporating the world’s most powerful telescope, Alma, into an array of sky-scanning antennae, astronomers have managed to pinpoint the radio emission to a smaller region of space than previously thought. The Alma … Continue reading
