How india’s Chandrayaan 3 will reach the Moon India’s space agency has released the first images of the Moon taken by the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit on Saturday. The images show craters on lunar surface getting larger and larger as the spacecraft draws closer. Chandrayaan-3’s lander and rover are due to reach the surface on 23 August. If successful, India will be the first country to perform a controlled “soft landing” near the south pole. It will also become only the fourth to achieve…
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NASA James Webb Space Telescope Captures Cosmic Clouds
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Captures Never Before Seen Cosmic Clouds A stunning image of cosmic beauty, consisting of an ethereal hourglass of orange and blue dust being thrown out from a newly emerging star at its core, was recently photographed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope has revealed the once-hidden features of the protostar within the dark cloud L1527, providing insight into the beginnings of a new star. These blazing clouds within the Taurus star-forming region are only visible in infrared light, so they had never been…
Ukraine Grain Exports Halted After Russia Suspends Participation In Deal
Ukraine Grain Exports Halted After Russia Suspends Participation In Deal Kyiv: Ukraine’s maritime grain exports were halted Sunday after Russia suspended its participation in a landmark agreement that allowed the vital shipments, blaming drone attacks on its ships in Crimea. The July deal to unlock grain exports signed between Russia and Ukraine and brokered by Turkey and the UN, is critical to easing the global food crisis caused by the conflict. The agreement had already allowed more than nine million tonnes of Ukrainian grain to be exported and was due…
Bees Order Numbers From Left To Right Claims Study
Bees Order Numbers From Left To Right, Claims Study A new study has revealed that bees order numbers in increasing size from left to right. This has now further backed up the claim that this is the direction inherent in all animals including human beings. The study was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and explored the numeric sense of honey bees. It showed that after being trained to associate numbers with a sucrose reward, the bees order numbers not previously experienced from left to…
After Being Fired Twitter CFO Ned Segal
After Being Fired, Twitter CFO Ned Segal Changes His Bio, Says “Current Fan Of Twitter” Billionaire Elon Musk completed the Twitter takeover battle and became the head of the social media platform whose “tremendous potential” he has promised to unleash. Soon after, he fired Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal and head of legal affairs Vijaya Gadde, according to several US media outlets. Recently, the former financial officer changed his bio on the social media platform. It now reads, “Former CFO and current fan of…
Elon Musk Twitter Roils With Hate Speech As Trolls Test New Limits
Elon Musk’s Twitter Roils With Hate Speech As Trolls Test New Limits Twitter has long wrestled with how to enforce content policies fairly on its platform in order to appease the advertisers, users and powerful world leaders that use its service. Elon Musk, a self-styled “free speech absolutist,” has taken over ownership of Twitter. In the wake of Elon Musk buying Twitter Inc., a tide of slurs and racist memes swelled on the platform, sparking concern that the site is entering an era of hateful speech. Twitter has…
Lucy Mission Snaps Stunning Views Of Earth
NASA’s Lucy Mission Snaps Stunning Views Of Earth And Moon On Its Way To Jupiter NASA’s Lucy probe is the first mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids – two swarms of space rocks that share the giant planet’s orbit. NASA’s Lucy probe, a mission to a group of asteroids near Jupiter, flew past Earth on October 16 and took some stunning photos of our planet and the moon before retreating to deep space. Earlier this week, the American space agency released the images Lucy’s cameras took of the Earth and Moon as it…
As InSight lander nears end, NASA details meteorite strike on Mars
As InSight lander nears end, NASA details meteorite strike on Mars InSight’s mission, which has helped reveal the internal structure of Mars and its seismic activity, originally was planned for two years but was extended to four. Washington: The InSight lander, perched on the surface of Mars since 2018, will run out of power and stop operations within four to eight weeks, NASA said on Thursday, even as scientists detailed a big meteorite strike it detected that gouged boulder-sized chunks of ice surprisingly close to the planet’s equator. Dust has…
Focus On Economic Issues: Rishi Sunak On Not Attending COP27 Summit
Focus On Economic Issues: Rishi Sunak On Not Attending COP27 Summit The COP27 UN climate change conference takes place in Egypt on November 7-8, two weeks after Sunak became prime minister. London: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday defended his decision not to attend next month’s COP27 climate change summit, saying he had to focus on “pressing” economic problems. In an interview with Sky News a day after Downing Street announced he was skipping the summit, the prime minister stressed he was “very personally committed” to environmental issues. “I…
Russia Threatens Europe After Putin Predicts
Russia Threatens Europe After Putin Predicts “Dangerous Decade” : Germany Russia-Ukraine war: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is from a wing of Germany’s Social Democrats that long argued for closer economic ties to Moscow, said the Feb.24 invasion had ruptured those hopes. Kherson: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has plunged Europe into an era of insecurity, Germany said on Friday, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin predicted a “dangerous” decade ahead. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is from a wing of Germany’s Social Democrats that long argued for closer economic…