Researchers created an image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A *, 25000 light-years away, which is at the center of the Milky Way. This was possible from data collected by the MeerKAT radio telescope, from South Africa, which has 64 satellite dishes scattered throughout the country. The Galactic Center is the brightest part (near…
After making numerous discoveries beyond Neptune's orbit, astronomer Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institute for Science, returned to the news with the announcement of the existence of 12 new moons around Jupiter. The communiqué was made today (July 17) by the International Astronomical Union. To make the discovery, Sheppard and his team used the telescope…
Analysis carried out with the Shroud of Turin (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Guarded by seven keys in the Italian Cathedral of Turin, a piece of linen with 4.5 meters long and 1.1 wide awakens a controversy that has lasted centuries: would the fabric have covered the body of Jesus after the crucifixion or would that be…
(Photo: Playback/Instagram) There is no lover of books that resist: A bookstore in Bordeaux, France, amuses its visitors and followers with jokes that mix the faces of the readers with the works for sale in the establishment. This is the Librairie Mollat, considered the first independent bookstore in the country. In your Instagram account,…
Jaguar Valerio was born in San Diego in 2015 and was transferred to New Orleans in October 2017 (Photo: reproduction/Facebook) Last Saturday (14), Valerio, an adult male Jaguar startled visitors and professionals from the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, in the United States. Upon escaping from his enclosure, he killed four alpacas, a fox,…
(Photo: Flickr/TVZ Design) Researchers have found that there are about a quadrillion of tons of diamonds more than 160 miles deep towards the center of the planet. The discovery happened after scientists used sound waves to estimate the composition of the upper mantle of the Earth. Published in the Geochemistry Journal, Geophysics, Geosystems, the…
One of the structures where the bread samples were found (Photo: Alexis pants) More than 14000 years ago, the population that lived in the region where Jordan was already eating bread. It shows a study conducted by researchers from Dinamaquesas and British universities published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.…
In a single advertisement, Jupiter gains a dozen new members, and number of natural satellites reaches 79! 12 new natural satellites were discovered orbiting Jupiter, being one of them quite unlike anything we've seen before… During a manhunt for planet X (a possible planet of the undiscovered Solar system that seems to be beyond Pluto)…
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab has just received an indication of the most important award on television–and it's no less… NASA's coverage of the Grand finale of the Cassini spacecraft on Saturn was so lauded that it resulted in an Emmy nomination. The Emmy Award is the largest and most prestigious award awarded to programs and…
How many are there, and what are the names of the arms of t he Milky Way? Observing the night sky, the stars, the nebulae, the planets, is indeed a striking experience. But what about that whitish, fuzzy cloud we see scratching the sky? That cloud that scratches the sky from end to end, is…