Scientists have discovered a rare object called the Blue Ring Nebula, a ring of hydrogen gas with a star at its center. The properties of this system suggest it is the remnant of two stars meeting their ultimate demise: an inward orbital dance that resulted in the two stars merging. The result offers a new window into the fate of many…
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Silk Road Bitcoins Worth $1 Billion Change Hands After Seven Years
A billion dollars worth of bitcoins linked to the shuttered darknet market Silk Road has changed hands for the first time in seven years, prompting renewed speculation about the fate of the illicit fortune. The Guardian reports: Almost 70,000 bitcoins stored in the account which, like all bitcoin wallets, is visible to the public, had lain untouched since April 2013. The…
How the world came to understand black holes
Earlier this month, Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez split the 2020 physics Nobel Prize for decades of work on black holes. Click here to learn more about their monumental achievement and about the history of our understanding of these exotic objects in space. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/nobel-prize-3-astrophysicists-black-holess-penrose-genzel-ghez…
Black Box review: Smart sci fi plays with identity, fate and death
Black Box is an intelligent and melancholy sci-fi film in which a man who loses his memory in a car crash takes extreme steps to get his life back, writes Simon Ings Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833050-600-black-box-review-smart-sci-fi-plays-with-identity-fate-and-death/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Late Lt. Col. hinted at fate of Project Blue Book
A new documentary has hinted at what could be the real reason the US government shuttered its UFO program. Carried out by the US Air Force between 195… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/340174/late-lt-col-hinted-at-fate-of-project-blue-book…
Tragic image of an orphan macaque wins wildlife photography award
This poignant image of an orphaned baby macaque awaiting its fate at a market in Bali won an award in the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833040-300-tragic-image-of-an-orphan-macaque-wins-wildlife-photography-award/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Testing a fiery reentry
What would a satellite look like as it burns up in the atmosphere? Researchers attempted to duplicate this fiery fate for a bulky satellite electronics box using a plasma wind tunnel. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-10-fiery-reentry.html…
A new interpretation of quantum mechanics suggests that reality does not depend on the person measuring it
Quantum mechanics arose in the 1920s, and since then scientists have disagreed on how best to interpret it. Many interpretations, including the Copenhagen interpretation presented by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, and in particular, von Neumann-Wigner interpretation, state that the consciousness of the person conducting the test affects its result. On the other hand, Karl Popper and Albert Einstein thought that…
Trump Cracks Down on Visas. Indian Firms May Benefit.
As the president clashes with the courts, some companies and investors say tougher limits on temporary work visas will help push jobs overseas. From a report: When President Trump suspended a raft of visa programs in June, including temporary permits for highly technical foreign workers known as H-1B visas, he portrayed the order as a victory for the American work force….
What is a galaxy?
We live in a galaxy called the Milky Way. But there is so much more to know about these grand and glorious star islands in space! Click in here, and prepare to have your mind expanded. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/definition-what-is-a-galaxy…