Written by Mounis Hawass Monday, April 15, 2024 01:00 AM Scientists conducted a little digging inside UranusAnd they found something surprising, as they believe that there is a lot more methane than we thought. The idea that Uranus is full of gas may not come as a surprise to many – but what is strange … Read more
On Wednesday, March 27, a paper by the geophysicist appears in the prestigious scientific journal “Nature”. Duncan Agnew (Duncan Agnew) from the University of California with the somewhat strange title: “Melting ice solves leap-second problem – for now”, immediately making the rounds of the world. With dozens of reports and analyzes on the Internet. But … Read more
How and when will Ukrainians see a solar eclipse and comet? A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and briefly covers the entire disk of the luminary. At this point, the Sun’s thin, almost white outer atmosphere, called the corona, is visible. Phases of a solar eclipse … Read more
Scientists from Yale University conducted research in search of planets that may be suitable for life. In multistellar systems, where multiple stars orbit a common center of mass, exoplanets are subject to strong gravitational perturbations. This can cause planetary orbits to become unstable and planets to fly out of the system or collide with other … Read more
The shape of our planet is round. That is a proven fact. However, it has recently been discovered that this was not always the case and that, at its creation, the Earth was slightly different. According to the findings of a group of researchers from the British university UCLan (University of Central Lancashire), in the … Read more
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN)– Discover Astronomy scientists A “super-Earth,” or a world larger than our planet, orbits a star about 137 light-years away. It is also possible that there is another planet, believed to be similar in size to Earth, orbiting the same star. The outer “super-Earth”, known as TOI-715b, orbits a red dwarf … Read more
“Asteroid 2008 OS7 will be closest to Earth today (Friday, February 2). The time of the closest flyby, calculated relative to the center of the Earth, will occur at 15:40 CET,” Petr Pravec from the Interplanetary Matter Department of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic confirmed for Novinky. This … Read more
The researchers relied on analyzing the chemical composition of “iron meteorites”, which represent rich stores of information about the first period of the history of the solar system. Iron meteorites are rich stores of informationCourtesy of D. Grewal Enlarge image What is the source of ground water? Where did he come from? How was he … Read more
Since Voyager 2 blew by in 1986 around Uranus and the year 1989 around Neptune and took detailed portraits of them along the way, astronomers wondered why the two planets—extremely similar in most respects—had such strikingly different colors, the server recalls Science Alert. New research has revealed the true colours of some of our Solar … Read more
Kohoutek emigrated to Germany in 1970 after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops. She reported on his death on Friday, January 5 website Czech Astronomical Society. “It is a great loss of one of the most hardworking and painstaking Czech astronomers of the 20th century, who spent a record 290 shifts at the … Read more