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NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) has published a remarkable video that depicts Earth in ways you’ve probably never seen before. The video is a time-lapse model of a category-4 typhoon that formed off the coast of China in 2005. Throughout the visualization, the seven-day period is replayed multiple times. The volume-rendered clouds in the simulation were created using data from NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5). This simulation, known as the 7km GEOS-5 Nature Run (7km-G5NR), was performed on a supercomputer. This brief visualization generated Pet abytes of output and made use of roughly a terabyte of brickmap data. According to the SVS website, the goal of videos like the above is to provide the public with a clearer picture of our planet and our own place within it, as well as give people an idea of what NASA is all about: “The SVS works closely with scientists in the creation of visualisations, animations, and image...

Scientists may have discovered a method for people to breathe on Mars in the future. Space travel is difficult for a variety of reasons, but one of the most significant is the absence of oxygen in space. Bacteria might be the solution to all of our space breathing issues. According to Mashable, scientists may use cyanobacteria to figure out how humans might quickly acquire oxygen in space . Cyanobacteria convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. Cyanobacteria are found in extremely difficult settings on Earth, thus it is predicted that they would be able to live on Mars. Some scientists have proposed transporting the bacterium to Mars to test whether it can produce oxygen for future people who could end up there. Experiments have previously demonstrated that cyanobacteria can flourish in a Martian environment. Cyprien Verseux, an astronomer, previously worked on one of these trials. He explained: “Here we show that cyanobacteria can use gases available in the Martian...

With a greater focus on asteroids and objects from deep space, as well as the possibility of a collision with Earth, astronomers have arrived for the first time at a planet that may have lost its atmosphere as a result of a collision with a massive object. A team of astronomers has discovered an Earth-like planet that may have lost some of its atmosphere owing to a collision 200,000 years ago. Astronomers from MIT, the National University of Ireland Galway, and Cambridge University uncovered evidence of the massive collision in a neighboring star system, only 95 light-years away from Earth. The star, known as HD 172555, is roughly 23 million years old, and astronomers believe its dust shows indications of a recent collision. According to the study published in the journal Nature, massive impacts are what cause planets like the early Earth to reach their ultimate mass and attain long-term stable orbital arrangements. One significant prediction is that these impacts will generat...

A group of astronomers has discovered a ‘barrier’ in the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. It is currently unclear how is works or why it even exists. An artist’s impression of the Milky Way’s center , using data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. (Image credit: NASA Goddard) Recent research published in Nature Communications describes the finding of a massive “barrier” at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The study’s researchers from the Chinese Academy of Science s in Nanjing examined a map of gamma-rays in our galaxy. According to Space.com, gamma-rays are the most energetic kind of light in the cosmos and may be produced when high-speed particles known as cosmic rays hit with the matter. The map revealed to researchers that something in the centre of the Milky Way is boosting the speed of particles, with some approaching the speed of light. Furthermore, the map revealed a substantial amount of cosmic and gamma rays near outs...

According to data released by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies(CNEOS), astronomers will be able to observe a roughly 4,000 foot-wide. According to the NASA database, the asteroid is 2001 CB21, and it is expected to be up to 3,940 feet in diameter. It will make its nearest to Earth on March 4 at 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time. During its safe but close approach to Earth, the asteroid is expected to move at 26,800 miles per hour and will be around 3 million miles from Earth, or approximately 12 times the distance between the moon and Earth. As the asteroid gets closer, Gianluca Masi, an astronomer with Italy’s Virtual Telescope Project, photographed the space rock on February 23, when it was around 6.2 million miles from us. Due to ever-increasing technical advancements that come with space telescopes, the number of “near-Earth objects” is increasing. Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (138971) 2001 CB21: a time-lapse – 23 Feb. 2022. 2001 CB21 orbit...

In this view of Venus acquired by an infrared camera aboard Japan’s Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter, dark higher-altitude clouds hide the lighter mid-altitude clouds. Phosphine gas found in temperate mid-latitude clouds is tantalizing scientists with the possibility of a biological signature. FALSE-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / DAMIA BOUIC According to experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the sky of Venus may hold signs of extra terrestrial life. The second planet from our Sun has long been overlooked in the quest for extra terrestrial life. It’s simple to understand why: the Venusian surface may reach temperatures of over 800 degrees Fahrenheit; its dense atmosphere exerts over 100 times more pressure on things than Earth’s atmosphere; and the planet rains sulfuric acid, a corrosive substance that can inflict severe burns in people. As a result, most scientists have concentrated on discovering evidence of ancient alien life on M...

According to worrying new research, scientists have identified a strong new strain of fact-resistant people that are endangering the Earth’s capacity to support life. The University of Minnesota study finds a virulent strain of individuals that are practically impervious to any type of verified information, leaving experts baffled as to how to counter them. “These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information,” Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said. “And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive. As facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.” While scientists do not have a strong understanding of the mechanisms that prevent fact-resistant individuals from absorbing facts, they speculate that the strain may have gained the capacity to intercept and reject information e...

A team of researchers has uncovered evidence for yet another exoplanet circling Proxima Centauri, our nearest neighboring star at a distance of little over four light-years. The planet, known as Proxima d, is the third discovered in the system. According to a press statement, it’s also rather small, weighing only a fifth of the mass of Earth, making it one of the lightest exoplanets ever discovered. João Faria, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço in Portugal and lead author of the study published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, said in the statement: “The discovery shows that our closest stellar neighbor seems to be packed with interesting new worlds, within reach of further study and future exploration,” The small planet circles its star at a distance of around 2.48 million miles, less than a tenth of the distance between Mercury and the Sun, and completes a full cycle in under five days. Even more interesting, its orbit f...

When it comes to space exploration, the Chinese space agency has made History and continues to innovate. They have not only become the first country in human History to land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, but they have also grown the first plants on the moon’ s surface, paving the way for the settlement of Earth’s natural satellite. Chinese scientists began documenting the surroundings surrounding their robotic explorers after ensuring that the lander, rover, and the satellite circling the moon, which serves as an intermediary between the lander, rover, and scientists on Earth, are in good working order. After landing inside the Von Karman Crater in the Aitken basin, our solar system’s largest impact crater, the Change 4 mission deployed its lunar rover Yutu-2 onto the Moon’s surface.   What were the outcomes? Stunning photographs and movies of a completely alien landscape that have never been seen by human eyes before. China’s Yutu-2 Rover has successfully...

In what may be one of the most enjoyable TV moments we can recall, a bunch of conspiracy theorists unintentionally spent thousands of dollars to show that, yes, the Earth is round. A scene from Behind the Curve, a new Netflix documentary that follows a group of Flat Earthers, a “small but rising faction of people who firmly believe in a conspiracy that the Earth is flat.” Bob Knodel is one of those Flat Earthers. He runs a YouTube channel dedicated to the theory and is part of the team using a $20,000 laser gyroscope to prove the Earth doesn’t rotate. However, it does. Knodel explains: What we found is, when we turned on that gyroscope, we found that we were picking up a drift,” Knodel explains. “A 15-degree per hour drift. “Now, obviously we were taken aback by that – ‘Wow, that’s kind of a problem.’ “We obviously were not willing to accept that, and so we started looking for easy to disprove it was actually registering the motion of the Earth.” What we found is, when...

Off the coast of Australia, search operations have started for a “crashed extraterrestrial space craft.” Astrophysicist Avi Loeb is sure that a meteor that crashed in 2014 came from outside our solar system and had ET technology. The £1.9 million operation to recover the “UFO” that is submerged in the Pacific Ocean has been completely financed. According to NASA, the meteor traveled through the sky close to Papua New Guinea at a speed of more than 100,000 miles per hour before colliding with the Earth near Manus Island. According to US Space Command authorities, the meteor, which was about 1.5 feet wide, “was certainly an interstellar object.” Loeb said: “Our discovery of an interstellar meteor heralds a new re search frontier. “The fundamental question is whether any interstellar meteor might indicate a composition that is unambiguously artificial in origin. Better still, maybe certain technical elements might withstand the impact....

One of the most awaited events in modern astronomy, according to astronomers, may soon be upon us. According to research, fluctuations in light measurements from the galaxy SDSS J1430+center 2303’s point to the possibility of a major collision between two supermassive black holes with a total mass of about 200 million Suns. A supermassive black hole collision in real-time The collision, coupled with the first black hole image taken by the Event Horizon Telescope, may rank among the greatest modern astronomical event s if the scientists’ interpretation of the data is right. In this situation, according to the scientists’ data, the black holes will merge within the next three years , which is a very short period of time in the context of scientific studies. The research results are available on the pre-print server ArXiv and have been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Due to the gravitational waves that the first black h...

Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf with unprecedented characteristics. It is simultaneously the smallest and most massive white dwarf ever observed by astronomers.     Astronomers at the Zwicky Transient Facility, which operates at the Palomar Observatory at California Institute of Technology , have discovered an extremely unusual white dwarf star with an extreme magnetic field nearly one billion times more powerful than the one of our Sun. The unique celestial object is both the smallest and most massive white dwarf discovered to date. Everything you need to know about the smallest white dwarf with the most powerful magnetic field Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf with unprecedented characteristics. It is simultaneously the smallest and most massive white dwarf ever observed by astronomers. White dwarfs are dense, collapsed remnants of stars that were once about eight times more massive than the Sun. They form when stars literally shed their o...

Astronomers have dis cover ed a new exoplanet that is slightly larger than Earth and orbits a red dwarf star 66.5 light-years away. It’s a good prospect, scientists think, to help cover our massive information vacuum regarding our Milky Way galaxy’s small, rocky planet population. Since the initial dis cover y of an exoplanet in 1992, our detection capabilities and understanding of exoplanets has almost exploded. Over 4,100 exoplanets have been confirmed in our galaxy as of this writing, and we now have a far better knowledge of planetary systems and how they develop and evolve. However, because we’re seeking for small, dim, or dark objects that are difficult to view from afar, the vast majority of verified exoplanets are chonkers – ice and gas giants the size of Neptune and larger. The Kepler and TESS exoplanet-hunting missions have increased the number of detections of smaller exoplanets: those with masses similar to Earth and Venus, and so likely to ...

In a galaxy next to our Milky Way, astronomers have discovered what they are calling a cosmic “needle in a haystack” – a dormant black hole that seems to have been formed without the explosion of a dead star. Researchers said on Monday that this black hole differs from all others known in that it is “X-ray quiet” – not generating tremendous X-ray radiation suggestive of devouring surrounding matter with its enormous gravitational attraction – and that it was not formed in a supernova. Black holes are extremely dense objects whose gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. This one was discovered in the Tarantula Nebula area of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy and is around 160,000 light years from Earth. A light year is 5,9 trillion miles, the distance light Travel s in one year (9.5 trillion km). A blue star with a mass around 25 times that of the sun circles around this black hole in a stellar union. The name of this so-ca...

The block universe theory  says that our universe may be looked at as a giant four-dimensional block of spacetime, containing all the things that ever happen, explained Dr. Kristie Miller, the joint director for the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney. There is no “now” or “now” in the block universe. Within the three spatial directions and one temporal dimension, all moments exist only in relation to one another. Your experience of the present is simply a reflection of where you are in the block world at the time. The “history” is simply a slice of the world at a different time, whereas the “future” is at a different time. So, is time just an elaborate mind trick? And more importantly – is time travel possible? Dr. Miller’s answer to that is “yes”. Of course, just hypothetically, since we’d need to figure out first how to Travel at “some reasonable percentage of the speed of light”. Going to the past would entail using wormholes, like “short cuts through space-time”....

Last year, Kip S. Thorne collected a Nobel Prize (along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish) for his work on gravitational waves. Now, Thorne may have made a new breakthrough: a theoretical method for Travel ing through time. It involves black holes, a wormhole, and the stretching of space and time. The idea involves creating a wormhole whose two ends are respectively situated near Earth and the surface of a black hole. Because black holes stretch and distort space-time, time moves much more slowly there. According to Thorne, this is the key: “If you have wormholes then if you move the mouth of one wormhole down near the surface of a black hole time flows very slowly there compared to the rate of flow of time back here on earth. So the two mouths get out of sync. The mouth of the wormhole sits down the surface of the black hole and it sits there with only a few hours passing while up here on Earth a billion years pass.” By entering the wormhole here on Earth and Travel ing t...

Don’t miss the Orionids meteor shower and the Full Moon Blue Moon. October has proven to be quite a month for skygazers. The Month started with the Full Hunters Moon and Mercury at the greatest Eastern Elongation. We saw the Draconids Meteor shower peak on October 7 and  Mars  at opposition just a week ago, on October 16. With plenty of time left in October, there are quite a few astronomical events to look out for. Tomorrow, October 21, and a day later, on October 22, the  Orionids Meteor Shower  is set to peak as Earth crosses the trail left behind by  Halley’s comet . The meteor shower is expected to peak on the night of October 21, just around dawn, with as many as 20 meters visible each other. Although the Orionids meteor shower is not the most spectacular one, it is characterized by its extremely bright “shooting stars.” NEWSLETTER Never miss a news release from the Curiosmos team. On the night of October 22, the Moon, Saturn, and Jupiter will offer skygazers anothe...

The far side of the moon is anything but similar to the near side. Astronomers have obtained new clues that help unravel the mysteries surrounding the strange asymmetry present on the far side of the Moon. The different distribution of radioactive elements after the catastrophic moon formation collision may help explain the strange asymmetry in the lunar sides’ composition. Earth’s Moon exists in such a way that it has a ‘near side’ that is perpetually oriented towards Earth and a ‘far side,’ which always points away from Earth. The composition of the near side of the Moon is strangely different from its far side. Earth’s Moon is a cold body and features a limited amount of water and little tectonic processes beneath the surface. NEWSLETTER Never miss a news release from the Curiosmos team. Scientists currently believe that the Earth-Moon system was formed when a body the size of Mars nicknamed Theia, who in Greek mythology was the mother of Selene, the goddess of the Moon...

When the Big Bang happened, about 13.8 billion years ago, all the matter in the cosmos exploded from a singularity to produce the universe that we know today. But what existed before then? What existed before the start of time and everything? Professor Stephen Hawking says he might know just what existed. In a very recent TV interview, the famous physicist says that ‘nothing was around before the Big Bang’. Stephen Hawking claims that time and space was there in a ‘bent state’ that was distorted with another dimension. Sharing his views on the newest episode of the National Geographic show ‘Star Talk’, which was broadcasted on Sunday evening, Hawking, 76, explained the beginning of the universe. The physicist says that the Big Bang was the creation of what we now refer as time because the event broke down the laws of physics as we know it. This means that anything that come first cannot be applied to our current understanding of time and existence. Stephen Hawking uses the ide...