Author: Daniel Tom

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of “How to Die in Space.” He contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. White dwarfs are some of the strangest objects in the universe. The leftover cores from sunlike stars, white…

The Boeing Co., Mesa, Arizona, was awarded a $32,577,153 modification (P00082) to contract W58RGZ-16-C-0023 to incorporate a directed change order for the remanufacture of twelve Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and six-part numbers for the tail rotor blades. Work will be performed in Mesa, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 1, 2024. Fiscal…

This supercomputer simulation depicts one of the most powerful events in the universe: two neutron stars colliding, merging, and becoming a black hole. A neutron star is the compact core left behind when a star with between eight and thirty times the mass of the sun explodes as a supernova. The mass of a neutron…

A black hole had a stellar spaghetti feast, which astronomers witnessed from 215 million light-years away in a spiral galaxy in the Eridanus constellation. Using telescopes at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, astronomers witnessed the light of a star being consumed and ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. Although it may appear to…

I have to admit you should have included more boats in the video, most of those are ships also most of them are quite similar. You should have included ships the the visby-class from Sweden, Karkut-class from Russia and Hamina-class from Finland. You could have even put in corvettes like the Gowind-class and the new…

Russian battlecruiser Pyotr VelikiyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is the fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy. Initially named Yuri Andropov for Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, the ship’s name was changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russian designation for the type is “heavy missile cruiser”, but…

Why did people think cannibalism was good for their health? The answer offers a glimpse into the zaniest crannies of European history, at a time when Europeans were obsessed with Egyptian mummies. Driven first by the belief that ground-up and tinctured human remains could cure anything from bubonic plague to a headache, and then by…

Welcome back to Daily Aviation for a feature on one of the busiest strategic military airlift aircraft designed to operate from virtually anywhere, exceeding 4 million total flight hours in 2021. As a loadmaster for 20 years, I have had the privilege of flying these wonderful planes. You’ve been to some great places around the…

The National Geographic Society has not discovered ancient giant humans, despite rampant reports and pictures. A digitally altered photograph created in 2002 shows a reclining giant surrounded by a wooden platform—with a shovel-wielding archaeologist thrown in for scale. By 2004 the “discovery” was being blogged and emailed all over the world—”Giant Skeleton Unearthed!”—and it’s been enjoying a…

This curious artefact was found in London, Texas, USA in 1934. The hammer was embedded in the rock and has been many theories about its origin, and most importantly its incredible age. So how did the hammer end up being stuck in the rock? Well, to finish the hammer inside the rock it had to be…