Thursday, 25 April 2013

Dead Sea Monument installed in Mount Everest region

Dead Sea Monument installed in Mount Everest region

Dead Sea Monument installed in Mount Everest region

Dead Sea Monument installed in Mount Everest region Kathmandu: A monument containing a stone from the Dead Sea in Israel has been placed in Nepal's Mount Everest region in a tourism initiative linking the lowest and highest points on Earth. The Dead ...
Debris in Earth

Debris in Earth's Orbit can be Hazardous; Urgent Need to Clear it: ESA

The European Space Agency (ESA) on 25 April 2013 during the 6th European Conference on Space Debris in Darmstadt, Germany announced that the Space Junk such as the debris of rockets should be removed from the orbit of the Earth.
Poorly Understood "Dark Lightning" May Often Precede Lightning Strikes

Poorly Understood "Dark Lightning" May Often Precede Lightning Strikes

Though it sounds like a necromancer spell in some B-grade RPG, dark lightning is actually a strange, ill-understood weather phenomenon that takes place deep within storm clouds. While it's invisible to the naked eye, a group of researchers using some ...
Comet

Comet's water still hanging around on Jupiter

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's multiple fragments left dark scars in Jupiter's upper atmosphere when it collided with the planet in 1994 (shown in this photo from July 1994). Now it turns out the planet has hung onto water that the comet provided. Credit: Hubble ...
Theory of Einstein

Theory of Einstein's Proved Right—Again

Scientists have subjected Albert Einstein's famous theory of gravity to its toughest real-world test so far—and it has prevailed. The theory, which was published nearly a century ago, had already passed every test it was subjected to. But scientists have been ...
Hubble telescope spies incoming comet ISON and Einstein

Hubble telescope spies incoming comet ISON and Einstein's theory passes ...

There are several great news on space front. Hubble telescope spies incoming comet ISON and Einstein's theory passes extreme gravity test. Earlier this month, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took a sneak preview of a comet that may be brighter than the ...
Dead stars may hold key to detecting life on other planets

Dead stars may hold key to detecting life on other planets

Scientists have demonstrated that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), set to be launched by NASA in 2018, should be able to detect signs of life in the planets that orbit dead stars. Since it has no source of energy, a dead star also known as white ...