With a piping-hot surface temperature of 430 degrees Celsius, Gliese 486b is too hot to support human life. But studying its atmosphere can help the scientists of Earth to understand the atmosphere which is suitable for Alien life.
In 1986, the National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC) asked the Government to pronounce February 28 as National Science Day. The first National Science Day was celebrated in 1987.
National Science Day 2021: The Indian National Satellite System or the INSAT is India’s very own domestic communication satellite. India is one of the only few countries to have such a satellite.
Sir Raman, on the same date, had invented the Raman Effect in the year 1928. For his contribution in the field of science, Sir Raman was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
The giant space rock will be followed shortly after by 2020 BV9 (23 meters), which will pass at a distance of 5.6 million kilometers, and 2021 CC5 (40 meters), which will pass at roughly 6.9 million kilometers.
A PhD from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Swati Mohan was the guidance and controlled operations lead for NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission.
The selfie is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on February 18.
Engineers at NASA’s mission control in California erupted with joy when confirmation of touchdown came through, the BBC reported on Thursday.
As per the sources, the mission carries the sophisticated fossil-hunting rover Perseverance, and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which therefore referred as the first chopper to fly on another planet.
The DART project is currently working with SpaceX and NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) to identify the earliest possible launch opportunity within this secondary window.
The planets were discovered in images taken by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) between October and December 2018.
The most special thing about SKAO will be its sensitivity, which will be a sight to behold as this telescope would be able to detect an airport radar on a planet tens of lights years away.
Massive wildfires scorched Australia, Siberia, and the US west coast — and many of the fires were still burning during the busiest Atlantic hurricane season on record.
According to NASA, four if the asteroids are relatively small. However, the remaining two are bigger than the Eiffel Tower. The biggest one 2008 AF4 is nearly 500 metres in diameter.
The professor describes the object that entered our solar system on October 19th, 2017 as Oumuamua. He also explained further how this is not simply a piece of rock.
Of the newly discovered stars, 43 may escape the gravitational constraints of the Milky Way galaxy in the future and fly into intergalactic space.
Scientists have discovered that there is a type of brain cell that can track how far we have travelled and remember where things are, which are added to our memory map of the places we have been.
Two solstices occur annually, around June 21 and December 21. In many countries, the seasons of the year are determined by reference to the solstices and the equinoxes.
“The snow-covered Himalayan Mountains are in splendid view in this enhanced, long-exposure image taken by a crew member aboard the @iss.,” NASA said in the caption accompanying the photo.
