Surprisingly, NASA reports that auroras, storms, high temperatures, and strong winds are currently agitating conditions on Jupiter. The James Webb Space Telescope‘s pictures may provide scientists with an overview of the gas giant’s conditions. A NASA Imke de Pater, a planetary astronomer and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, stated, “To be…
At a Sotheby’s New York auction on Wednesday, Pablo Picasso’s 1932 painting “Femme à la montre” went for more than $139 million, making it the most valuable piece of art to be sold at an auction this year worldwide. The piece is a highlight of the autumn art auction season in New York City and…
It’s sanctioned. Astronomers gaping at the atmosphere of Venus have directly detected clear signs of infinitesimal oxygen in daylight, hanging about above the earth’s poisonous shadows. infinitesimal oxygen is known to live in the earth’s atmosphere, according to theoretical models, and has indeed been directly detected directly on Venus’ nightside; but the dayside discovery means we’ve new sapience into the dynamics of the Venusian atmosphere, and the rotation patterns therein, say a platoon led by physicist Heinz- Wilhelm Hübers of the German Aerospace Center( DLR). Venus is a world that scientists are itching to study in lesser detail. It’s analogous to Earth in numerous ways; but hugely, hellishly different in others. Its mass and composition are like Earth’s, but where Earth is lush, green, wet, and crawling with life,…
On the eve of midnight, SpaceX launched the first of two scheduled Falcon 9 launches in less than 48 hours, launching 23 Starlink satellites. Pad 40 was lifted off at 12:05 a.m. EST (0505 UTC). The weather for the planned launch of 23 more satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink internet service was almost ideal. On Monday,…
British public officers are given a board game to play when they first learn about the legislative process. The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, which writes laws for the government, came up with the phrase “Legislate?!” As they maneuver legislation through Parliament and around Whitehall, the players roll dice and move counters. They flip over…