Author: Daniel Tom

We live in a cosmic shooting gallery, with our planet the inevitable target of incoming space rocks. According to the Giant Impact Hypothesis, 4.5 billion years ago, a planetesimal the size of Mars, dubbed Theia, slammed into Earth. The debris ejected by the impact entered orbit around our planet, eventually forming the Moon. Ron Miller…

While size does matter, it is not necessarily always a measure of aviation power. However, this did not stop gifted engineers, who have, for decades now, been designing vehicles of such magnitude that their very ability to leave the ground was already impressive.   Today we are going to take a look at 10 of…

In 1971, NASA sent a map into space developed by astrophysicists Carl Sagan and Frank Drake. This map aimed to help any Aliens who may come across it find their way to Earth. Now, 50 years later, the map is being re-done to make it more fool-proof. (1) NASA Sent A Map Into Space For…

Ancient sculpture remnants reunited after 3,000 yearsThe archeology team confirmed on Thursday that a newly unearthed bronze statue at China’s famous Sanxingdui Ruins has been successfully matched with another piece of bronze ware from which it was split about 3,000 years ago.   The sophisticated bronze sculpture depicts a human head and snake body figure…

In 1971, NASA sent a map into space developed by astrophysicists Carl Sagan and Frank Drake. This map aimed to help any Aliens who may come across it find their way to Earth. Now, 50 years later, the map is being re-done to make it more fool-proof. (1) NASA Sent A Map Into Space For…

Originally predicted by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, black holes are the most extreme object in the known Universe. These objects form when stars reach the end of their life cycle, blow off their outer layers, and are so gravitationally powerful that nothing (not even light) can escape their surfaces. They are also of interest…

The aftermath of the star being “spaghettified” is like nothing astronomers have ever seen   Three years after a black hole shredded and devoured a small star, the cosmic titan is lighting up the night sky with violent emissions as it burps out material from its messy stellar meal.   In October 2018, the black…

The detection marks a new level of detail previously unmatched by other observatories. WASP-39 b is a hot Saturnlike exoplanet caught in an extremely close orbit to its host star. NASA, ESA, CSA, and J. Olmsted (STScI) The James Webb Space Telescope wowed the world with its first science images release on July 12, which…

Astronomers think GRB 221009A represents the birth of a new black hole formed within the heart of a collapsing star. In this illustration, the black hole drives powerful jets of particles traveling near the speed of light. The jets pierce through the star, emitting X-rays and gamma rays as they stream into space. Credit: NASA/Swift/Cruz…

Liquid heat rises in waves, twisting and turning morphing the parked T-37 Tweety Birds into caricatures more like reflections in a fun house than the small jet trainers that introduced countless thousands of potential pilots to jet-powered flight. I could almost feel the rubber soles on my boots beginning to melt. Okay, that’s a bit…