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Isro’s MOM filmed Mars’ largest Phobos Phobos
The Mars Color Camera (MCC) on the ISRO Mars Orbiter mission captured the closest and largest image of Mars on the Mars. The image was taken on July 1, when the MOM was about 7,200 kilometers from Mars and 4,200 kilometers from Phobos. “The spatial resolution of the image is 210 m. This is a composite image generated from 6 …
Read More »The “White Moon” eclipse occurred on July 4. Don’t expect to see too much.
In the past week, I have seen many websites promoting eclipse Full moon On the evening of July 4th during the American holiday. One website even lists Lunar eclipse Among the top ten celestial bodies that can’t be missed in 2020. USA Today says: “If the fireworks display was canceled on July 4 this year due to coronavirus, then there …
Read More »The star suddenly disappeared without a trace
According to new research published on Tuesday, a very bright star disappears into the mystery of cosmic stars. Royal Astronomical Society Monthly. Related article: The story of how to capture the first photo of a black hole The superstar disappeared without a trace A stellar object inside the Kingman dwarf galaxy disappeared from view. According to astronomical observations that took …
Read More »The threat of climate change to tropical plants
Credit: Shutterstock Researchers at the University of New South Wales have found that tropical plants near the equator are most threatened by climate change, because it is expected that within the next 50 years, tropical plants will become too hot to germinate. Their research analyzed nearly 10,000 records of more than 1,300 species from the Kew Gardens Global Seed Germination …
Read More »Gaia revolutionizes asteroid tracking
Gaia draws the stars in the Milky Way. Image source: ESA / ATG medialab; Background: ESO / S. Brunier ESA’s Gaia Asia Pacific Observatory is an ambitious mission to construct a three-dimensional map of our galaxy by making high-precision measurements of more than 1 billion stars. However, in the process of mapping the distant sun, Gaia is completely changing the …
Read More »Quantum fluctuations can shake animals on the human scale
Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have observed that LIGO’s 40 kg mirror can move in response to tiny quantum effects. In this photo, LIGO optical technician inspected a mirror of LIGO. Image source: Matt Heintze / Caltech / MIT / LIGO Lab research shows LigaoThe 40 kg mirror can move in response to tiny quantum effects, thus revealing …
Read More »NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in the middle of SpaceX mission
On May 30, the couple became the first NASA astronauts to launch to the station using a commercial rocket and took a vehicle made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX (not NASA). The day after takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center, the “Dragon” spacecraft named “Endeavour” automatically docked with the station, astronaut Chris Cassidy of NASA and Russian astronauts Anatoly Ivanisin and …
Read More »The absolute monster of this black hole eats the equivalent of the sun every day
It turns out that one of the largest black holes in the universe has an appetite to satisfy its huge scale. New measurement results indicate that this is an absolute bottleneck, and its clock quality is about 34 billion times the mass of the sun-engulfing the mass of almost a sun every day. This makes it the fastest-growing black hole …
Read More »ESA shares the incredible, unprecedented sight of the cold Mars Canyon (VIDEO)-RT World News
The European Space Agency shared an incredible footage, after a difficult reconstruction, showing Mars’s powerful Korolev crater. If we get there, it may be the future water source for human colonizers. The excellent video is actually a moving mosaic that combines scanning of the planet’s surface with terrain data and is captured by a high-resolution stereo camera on the Mars …
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