Lady Musgrave Island is a 14 hectares (35 acres) coral cay on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, with a 1,192 hectares (2,950 acres) surrounding reef. The island is the second island in the Great Barrier Reef chain of islands (with the first being Lady Elliot Island), and is most easily reached...
Santorini Greece in the Cyclades, Aegean, has one of the most spectacular landscapes in Greece and in the world. The traditional villages of the island, built on tall cliffs, offer a breathtaking view over the submerged volcano. They represent the beautiful Greek cliche you have always dreamed about! Among them you...
Astronomers have found a galaxy turning gas into stars with almost 100 percent efficiency, a rare phase of galaxy evolution that is the most extreme yet observed. The findings come from the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer in the French Alps, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and NASA’s Hubble Space...
SN 1006 The new SN 1006 image represents the most spatially detailed map yet of the material ejected during a type Ia supernova. By examining the different elements in the debris field — such as silicon, oxygen, and magnesium — the researchers may be able to piece together how the...
After preliminary tracking of a recently discovered asteroid, one Italian astronomer is making the case for a close flyby in 13 years. The new data suggest asteroid 2013 GM3, which is roughly 65 feet in diameter, will pass “dangerously close” to Earth on April 14, 2026. Francesco Manca of the Sormano Astronomical Observatory (OAS) near Milan, Italy,...
Cassini spots a huge hurricane swirling at Saturn’s north pole. The hellish red hurricane at the center of this picture may look like a harbinger of destruction, but it is stuck in place with nowhere else to go. The storm has been swirling in the north for who knows how...
Sir Isaac Newton is one of the most influential scientists of all time. He came up with numerous theories and contributed ideas to many different fields including physics, mathematics and philosophy. NAME: Isaac Newton OCCUPATION: Philosopher, Mathematician,Astronomer, Physicist BIRTH DATE: January 04, 1643 DEATH DATE: March 31, 1727 EDUCATION: The King’s School, University of Cambridge, Trinity College PLACE OF...
At the edges of the visible universe, 45 billion light-years away, sit some of the oldest known galaxies. How they formed and developed is a mystery, but a spectrograph installed on Chile’s Very Large Telescope—functional since March—should help astronomers find answers. The six-foot-wide, three-ton instrument contains 24 motorized robotic arms....
Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist who helped open the eyes of the world to a new way of thinking about the workings of our solar system and astronomy in general. NAME: Galileo OCCUPATION: Astronomer BIRTH DATE: February 15, 1564 DEATH DATE: January 08, 1642 EDUCATION: Monastery school at Vallombrosa, near Florence, University of Pisa...
Learn about the man credited with the invention of the first practical telephone with our Alexander Graham Bell facts for kids. Find out about his life growing up in Scotland, his move to Canada, his study of sound and his many experiments and inventions. Read on and enjoy our range of interesting facts and...
The first steps towards interstellar travel have been taken, but the stars are very far away. Voyager 1 is about 17 light-hours distant from Earth and is traveling with a velocity of 0.006 percent of light speed, meaning it will take about 17,000 years to travel one light-year. Fortunately, the...
“Portals” – great gaps in time or space that can send people away in time or space. Well, it seems to be real, and a NASA researcher has found the way to be discovered. Jack Scudder is a physicist at the University of Iowa, which identified “spatial portals hidden in...
Vasili Arkhipov – Soviet submariner who prevented World War III. It was 1962, when American families were gathering supplies and building bomb shelters and the tension between USA and USSR escalated. Both countries were equipped with nuclear bombs strong enough to destroy each other. When four Soviet submarines left the motherland only...
People Think Candy Bars With Green Nutrition Labels Are Healthier I see what you’re trying to do there, Snickers bar No matter how smart we think we are, humanity continues to be fooled by simple marketing tricks. Various experiments have found wearing the color red is more likely to get...
A Rubik’s cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible combinations With 6 colored sides, 21 pieces and 54 outer surfaces, there’s a combined total of over 43 quintillion different possible configurations. To put that into perspective: if you turned the Rubik’s cube once every second it would take you 1400 trillion years to...
