Author: Daniel Tom

Malick Ndiaye made a telescope with the few tools he had because he was interested in space and had spent hours reading the book The Whole Universe. The boy from Senegal, who was only 12 years old, made his own telescope out of his father’s old high-magnification glasses, a camera lens, wire, paper, cans, and…

The pair of glowing clumps are Herbig-Haro objects in the constellation Orion, around 1,250 light-years from Earth. These clumps surround newborn stars and were created when jets of gas from the stars collided with surrounding gas and dust at breakneck speed. Learn more about these colorful Herbig-Haro objects: https://go.nasa.gov/3eKT3DD Image credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B.…

On November 5, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 joined its sister aircraft Voyager 1 beyond the heliosphere, ‘the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by our Sun’. Considered a ‘watershed moment in our exploration of space’, five new research papers have been published in the journal Nature Astronomy documenting what’s happened since the spacecraft…

On November 5, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 joined its sister aircraft Voyager 1 beyond the heliosphere, ‘the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by our Sun’. Considered a ‘watershed moment in our exploration of space’, five new research papers have been published in the journal Nature Astronomy documenting what’s happened since the spacecraft…

Scientists have discovered a large reservoir of water hidden within Mars’ gigantic ‘Grand Canyon.’ A group of scientists using the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Orbiter identified a significant deposit of water immediately beneath the Valles Marineris Martian canyon system, which is ten times longer and five times deeper than our own Grand Canyon. The scientists…

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The exoplanet, which orbits a relatively benign red dwarf star, is “the best candidate for habitability that we know right now.”   As depicted in this artist’s concept, exoplanet K2-18 b orbits a red dwarf star and has an extended atmosphere containing at least some water vapour. Another exoplanet in the system is closer to…

In every war known to the world, ships have been a vital asset. A warship is more than a vessel; it’s a symbol of prestige and dominance. The race of competitions among the countries who will manage to build the largest and most powerful ship of the Navy led to the fact that giants of…

There are up to 5 layers of coffins, classified by materials: stone, wood, copper, silver, and gold. Among them, the appearance of the golden coffin has attracted great attention from everyone.   More than ten years ago, a golden coffin was unearthed in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, China. Although we all know that the ancients…

The 3,400-year-old royal city was built by Amenhotep III, abandoned by his heretic son, Akhenaten, and contains stunningly preserved remains. Three thousand four hundred years ago, a contentious ancient Egyptian king abandoned his name, his religion, and his capital in Thebes (modern Luxor). Archaeologists know what happened next: The pharaoh Akhenaten built the short-lived city…