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Breathtaking photos of the Blue Marble-like Earth surrounded by the black abyss of space were taken by the first ultra-high-resolution camera orbiting our planet. As a result, the footage shows a bright blue planet surrounded by blackness, the Daily Mail reports. The photo was taken using a 360-degree measurement launched into space by a private […]
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have witnessed a Russian cargo ship burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere, Space reports. The Russian Progress MS-23 cargo spacecraft lifted off from the ISS on November 29, carrying old equipment and household waste that is no longer needed on the station. Only 4 hours after Progress MS-23 […]
Despite centuries of research, the natural world never ceases to amaze scientists: every now and then they discover new species and learn something unusual about them. Researchers have discovered something surprising about another species that can be easily confused with a flower, Science writes. The orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatus) looks so much like a flower […]
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared the latest news from Mars. NASA’s Odyssey orbiter captured an unusual view of the Mars horizon with a camera. The department itself called the photos “stunning.” The images were taken from an altitude of approximately 400 kilometers above the surface of Mars, at about the […]
SpaceX has launched 23 more Starlink satellites into orbit, adding to its ever-growing Internet mega constellation, Space reports. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites was launched from Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida at 06:20 Kyiv time. The first stage of the Falcon 9 returned to Earth about 8.5 minutes after launch. It landed […]
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a picture of a glowing cloud surrounding a newborn star, Space.com reports. This is the so-called Herbig-Aro object, which is formed when stellar wind and gas jets burst out of newborn stars, causing shock waves. They crash at high speeds into the gas and dust from which the […]
Astronauts have problems with their finger nails during spacewalks. Space is not the most comfortable environment for humans. If there are no normal earthly conditions, including the usual gravity, then a person begins to experience health problems. First of all, it concerns the loss of bone and muscle density. Studies show that another disadvantage of […]
A team of Zaira rangers, a mammologist from the University of Melbourne, and a college professor from the National University of the Solomon Islands have taken the first and only photographs of the rare Wangunu giant rat. In their project, which is reported in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the group set camera traps with […]
The researchers did not expect the sea giants to ever return to the waters off the Seychelles after the mass killing by whalers, but it happened. The Seychelles is a dream destination for many, but it is unlikely that this includes the largest animals on Earth – blue whales. At the beginning of the 20th […]
Researchers from the Telescope Array have detected an ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) with an energy of approximately 244 exa-electron volts, or about 40 Joules. Gizmodo writes about it. According to the researchers, this is one of the highest energy levels ever observed for cosmic rays. It is about a million times higher than what […]