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An international team of researchers discovered 18 tidal star destruction events (TDEs) by supermassive black holes that had previously gone unnoticed due to dust in space. These phenomena occur approximately once every 10,000-100,000 years in each galaxy and are accompanied by a huge release of energy. According to scientists, due to dust that hides radiation […]
SpaceX plans to launch a new batch of its Starlink Internet satellites into orbit on February 9, if weather conditions are favorable, says Space. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink satellites is scheduled to launch no earlier than 02:56 Kyiv time from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. SpaceX will broadcast the launch live […]
Scientists have analyzed the fragments of a meteorite that fell near Berlin on January 21, 2024 They came to the conclusion that the celestial body belonged to a very rare type of asteroid – achondrites (aubrites). The study published on the official website of the SETI Institute for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. The found […]
NASA has shared an image of the Ingenuity helicopter standing alone on a Martian dune – it broke down during its last flight and will never rise above the surface of the Red Planet again. The rover will move further and further away from him until the connection is broken. The Ingenuity helicopter became the […]
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed an ancient river that flowed across the surface of Mars billions of years ago. The image was published in NASA’s Planetary Photo Journal. The photo shows the ridges in the Aeolis Planum region, which are the embodiment of an ancient river that once flowed across Mars in an era […]
Rocket Lab USA has successfully launched its first Electron mission in 2024, dedicated to solving the problem of space debris. As part of the Four Of A Kind mission for clients Spire Global and NorthStar Earth & Space, the Electron rocket delivered four Space Surveillance Awareness (SSA) satellites into Earth orbit. These satellites will be […]
Astrophotographer Jeff Dye captured an extremely rare phenomenon on camera – the swirling of the northern lights over a crater lake in Iceland. Typically, auroras occur when solar particles excite gas molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere, emitting bright light. However, the northern lights are a unique form of this phenomenon, caused by huge storms in […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a unique discovery by capturing two exoplanets orbiting white dwarfs, which are the last stage of a star’s existence. The discovered exoplanets resemble the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn in their characteristics and allow us to speculate on what the solar system might look like after the […]
Scientists suspect that at least one king penguin has died from the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in the Antarctic, The Guardian reports. If the scientists confirm this information, it means that the disease can spread and affect entire penguin colonies, as the birds are now gathering together for the breeding season. King penguins […]
On February 3, China launched 11 Geely-02 satellites belonging to the Chinese car manufacturer Geely Holding Group into orbit, English.News reports. These satellites are designed to provide accurate navigation data to the company’s self-driving cars. Using a Long March-2C launch vehicle, 11 Geely-02 satellites were launched from the Chinese Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 1:37 […]