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NASA has created another stunning video of the Apollo missions. This time, using high-definition imagery, experts have managed to reconstruct on video what the Apollo 16 astronauts saw during the…
Few people today have not heard of Darwin, but many people know about the theory of evolution only that, according to Darwin, man descended from apes. And it is difficult…
The Planck length and Planck time are often introduced as the smallest pieces of space and time that can exist. That is a useful shortcut for a first conversation, but…
Name and Budget Initially, the telescope bore the short but difficult to pronounce name NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope). In honor of Webb, who ran NASA in the 60s of…
Planetary scientists presented new results and images obtained during the long-term monitoring of the atmospheres of giant planets using the Hubble Space Telescope. It turned out that the equator of…
Everyone has heard the stories of secret technologies developed by the United States or Russia or various agencies around the world. Anti-gravity tech, for instance, has always been mentioned among…
On the gravel plains of the Namib Desert, Welwitschia mirabilis can look as though the wind has shredded it. The plant grows only two leaves throughout its life, yet some…
An international team of astronomers presented new research focused on the generation of energy around black holes and predicted that highly advanced civilizations could use so-called Dyson spheres around black…
Can you tell where our planet is in the universe? Of course, planet Earth is in the Solar System, which in turn is in the Orion Arm, the small galactic arm of the Milky Way. Well, our own galaxy then? Did you know that it is part of the Laniakeа Supercluster along with tens of thousands of other galaxies?
Although humankind has still not developed the necessary technology to travel to the outermost parts of our solar system, we have developed throughout the year’s many spacecraft that have pushed…
No matter where you live, it is unusual not to be aware of the monumental treasures that have glorified the Greek empire for more than 2,000 years. The richness of Greek…
Most of the universe is invisible to human eyes. The Chandra X-ray Observatory changes that by recording high-energy light from places where gravity, magnetic fields and stellar explosions push matter…
In 2021, it was announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope project began crafting the sixth mirror segment out of seven total. Once completed, the telescope will be one of several…
Plenty of discoveries have revealed incredible details about the industrial life in ancient Egypt. We wrote about the oldest industrial brewery in the world. Now, a team of archaeologists has…
Have you heard about SETA? SETA stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts, and scientists have proposed we should explore the surface of the Moon, for example, and search for extraterrestrial…
Humankind has been trying to find evidence of the existence of aliens for several centuries, but these attempts have so far been unsuccessful. There are assumptions that the American government…
What did Hubble’s images reveal about the universe? The telescope’s pictures are more than beautiful views: different filters expose hot gas, newborn stars, dust clouds, exploding stars and galaxies whose…
Journalists once again drew attention to the list of a number of advanced technological developments of the American army mentioned in the US Navy patents of the renowned aerospace engineer…
The testing of a new satellite imaging instrument at the West Virginia Green Bank Telescope recently produced a very detailed image of the Apollo 15 landing site on the moon.…
Andromeda is the closest neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. Located in the constellation with the same name, it can be observed easily when the sky is clear at night.…
Have you ever thought about Jupiter’s size and why it hasn’t become a star? If not, I suggest you open a comparison image with all the planets in the Solar…
Usually, when astronomers talk about “neighboring galaxy“, they mean the Andromeda Galaxy, which is only 2.5 million light-years distant from us. However, a little further is another spiral galaxy, the third-largest…
Scientists have found evidence of what exactly may have destroyed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The cause of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, which occurred in the Late…
An online survey of 2,561 people who have ever used DMT found that the experience of the “session” and its mental effects are similar to those of religious revelation and…