The US-European Solar Orbiter mission caught footage of a coronal mass ejection bursting out of the sun’s atmosphere during the spacecraft’s first close pass by our star.
A “four-legged fossil fish” predating dinosaurs has been recently rediscovered by groups hunting sharks with deep-sea nets.
The Ocean Cleanup’s Boyan Slat talks about upgrades and future plans for deploying more Interceptors designed to catch plastic and debris in rivers all around the world.
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Circa 2017 o,.o.
Ninety-three days, 4600 miles, and almost 2 million strokes. That’s what it took Chris Bertish to paddle across the Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddle (SUP) board.
“It was pretty radical, pretty incredible, driven by a passion and a purpose greater than yourself—and that powered me to get through everything, day in and day out,” said Bertish in a Skype interview with National Geographic.
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May.14 — Martin Indyk, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, expects a cease fire soon in the latest Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip. He appears on “Balance of Power.”
Circa 2019
While we’ve seen plenty of runners propose postmarathon (or even, dare we say it, in the middle of a marathon), few have gone the extra mile—or in this case, the extra 100-plus miles—before popping the question.
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In a new study from the California Institute of Technology, experts have discovered that fruit flies can fly up to 15 kilometers in a single journey. This distance is the equivalent of the average human traveling over 10000 kilometers, or more than 6200 miles.
The record for the longest distance by a human was set in 2005, when an ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes ran continuously for 80 hours over 350 miles – roughly 324000 times his body length. The Caltech study has found that fruit flies can travel up to six million times the length of their body.
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Rather than relying on Hollywood-like budgets to produce games, videogame company Roblox outsources the development to its mostly young players. WSJ meets a gamer making money from his creations and helping the publicly traded company attract new players. Photo: Roblox.
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Within the Milky Way, there are an estimated 200 to 400 billion stars, all of which orbit around the center of our galaxy in a coordinated cosmic dance. As they orbit, stars in the galactic disk (where our Sun is located) periodically shuffle about and get closer to one another. At times, this can have a drastic effect on the star that experience a close encounter, disrupting their systems and causing planets to be ejected.
Knowing when stars will make a close encounter with our Solar System, and how it might shake-up objects within it, is therefore a concern to astronomers. Using data collected by the Gaia Observatory, two researchers with the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) determined that a handful of stars will be making close passes by our Solar System in the future, one of which will stray pretty close!
The study was conducted by Vadim V. Bobylev and Anisa T. Bajkova, two researchers from the Pulkovo Observatory’s Laboratory of Galaxy Dynamics in St. Petersburg, Russia. As they indicated, they relied on astrometric data from the Gaia mission’s Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), which revealed kinematic characteristics of stars that are expected to pass within 3.26 light-years (1 Parsec) with the Solar System in the future.
