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Planet Vulcan: The Lost 19th Century World Einstein “Erased” From Our Solar System

In 1,846, astronomer and mathematician Urbain Le Verrier sat down and attempted to locate a planet that had never been seen before by humans. Uranus (grow up) had been moving in unexpected ways, as predicted by the Newtonian theory of gravity.

Though the discrepancies were small, there was a difference between the observed orbit of Uranus and the way Newtonian physics predicted its orbit to be. In July, Le Verrier proposed that the difference could be explained by another planet beyond Uranus, and made predictions as to the orbit of this previously unknown body.

Being a mathematician first and an astronomer second, he wasn’t really interested in finding it with a telescope now that he’d found it in maths, and the task of searching for it was left to German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. On September 23, 1846, Galle looked at the spot Le Verrier had predicted the planet would be, and found to be within 1 degree of the spot… the planet Neptune.

Violent Neutron Star Collisions: Unlocking the Origins of Gold and Other Heavy Elements

The gold that makes up your most precious jewelry may have been forged in a violent cosmic collision millions or billions of light years away between two neutron stars. New research seeks to better understand this process.

There is only a single confirmed site in the Universe capable of generating conditions extreme enough to initiate the production process for many of the heaviest elements in the Universe, including gold, platinum, uranium – neutron star.

A neutron star is the collapsed core of a large (between 10 and 29 solar masses) star. Neutron stars are the smallest and densest stars known to exist. Though neutron stars typically have a radius on the order of just 10 — 20 kilometers (6 — 12 miles), they can have masses of about 1.3 — 2.5 that of the Sun.

The Lunar Codex Will Archive the Work of 30,000 Artists—on the Moon

When Samuel Peralta contacts artists about putting their work on the moon, they don’t always believe him.

“I say, ‘I’d like to put your art on the moon,’ and they think this is some sort of a scam,” the semiretired physicist and author tells the New York Times’ J. D. Biersdorfer.

But it’s true. Peralta is the mastermind behind the Lunar Codex, a series of time capsules containing the work of 30,000 artists from 157 countries that will journey to the lunar surface. Peralta wants the project to honor artists after the difficulties they faced during the pandemic, he tells the Toronto Star’s Kevin Jiang.

Cygnus space freighter arrives at space station with 8,200 pounds of cargo aboard

The Cygnus NG-19 cargo freighter arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, Aug. 4, after a two-day space ride with 8,200 pounds (3,700 kilograms) of supply, experiments and new technology aboard.

The craft, built by U.S. aerospace giant Northrop Grumman and named after astronaut Laurel Clark who perished during the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003, was the last to launch on a version of the company’s Antares rocket using a first stage built in Ukraine.

Cygnus Solar Arrays Successfully Deployed

The solar arrays have successfully deployed on Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft that is on its way to deliver more than 8,200 pounds of scientific investigations, cargo, and supplies to the International Space Station after launching at 8:31 p.m. EDT Sunday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

🌎 SIMULATED Journey from EARTH to the END of the UNIVERSE ✨

journey breaks several laws of physics in order to reach the known limit of the universe, using a spacecraft capable of travelling at any speed.
distance and speed are approximate, giving us an idea of how fast the spacecraft has to travel to move through the vast expanses of the universe.
the way, an AI will explain some important elements of the journey, to give us a more complete picture of what we are seeing.

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(Youtube Library)
Hydra — Huma-Huma.
Eureka — Huma-Huma.
Atlantis — Audionautix.
Reflections — MK2
Angelic Forest — Doug Maxwell_Media Right Productions.
Landing On a Dark Planet — Doug Maxwell_Media Right Productions.

Moon — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon.
Solar System — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System.
Kuiper Belt — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt.
Oort Cloud — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud.
Heliopause — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#Heliopause.
Alpha Centauri — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri.
Local Interstellar Cloud — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Interstellar_Cloud.
Local Bubble — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Bubble.
Orion Arm — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Arm.
Milky Way — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way.
Andromeda Galaxy — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy.
Local Group — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group.
Laniakea Supercluster — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laniakea_Supercluster.
Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisces%E2%80%93Cetus_Supercluster_Complex.
Observable universe — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe.

Voice — voicemaker.in (Kendra)
Voice — voice.ai.
Numbers sound effect by Rho 2023 — https://youtu.be/hQf2VhYuaXc

Earth’s most ancient impact craters are disappearing

Earth’s oldest craters could give scientists critical information about the structure of the early Earth and the composition of bodies in the solar system as well as help to interpret crater records on other planets. But geologists can’t find them, and they might never be able to, according to a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.

Geologists have found evidence of impacts, such as ejecta (material flung far away from the impact), melted rocks, and high-pressure minerals from more than 3.5 billion years ago. But the actual craters from so long ago have remained elusive. The planet’s oldest known impact structures, which is what scientists call these massive craters, are only about 2 billion years old. We’re missing two and a half billion years of mega-craters.

The steady tick of time and the relentless process of erosion are responsible for the gap, according to Matthew S. Huber, a planetary scientist at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa who studies impact structures and led the new study.

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