Half the moon always faces us. And half the moon is always lit by the sun. But, in the language of astronomers, there are no ‘half moons.’ Source: https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/is-it-a-quarter-or-a-half-moon…
Tag: heavy Metal
Listen to a bendy audio speaker made from liquid heavy metal
A loudspeaker made from heavy metal that works when bent brings us one step closer to audio devices that can be worn directly on the skin Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2225993-listen-to-a-bendy-audio-speaker-made-from-liquid-heavy-metal/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Revisited: Ronnie James Dio’s UFO encounter
The late heavy metal singer-songwriter had his own experience with a UFO at his house in New Canaan. One of the most interesting celebrity UFO encount… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/331276/revisited-ronnie-james-dios-ufo-encounter…
Meet WASP-121b, a hot ‘heavy metal’ exoplanet
For the first time, heavy metal gases like magnesium and iron have been detected floating away from an exoplanet, a planet orbiting a distant sun. Why? Because the planet – which is about as big as Jupiter – is orbiting perilously close to its star. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/wasp-121b-exoplanet-football-shaped-heavy-metal…
Dark matter search yields technique for locating heavy metal seams
A method for locating seams of gold and other heavy metals is the unlikely spin-off of Swinburne’s involvement in a huge experiment to detect dark matter down a mine in Stawell, Victoria. …
Distant ‘heavy metal’ gas planet is shaped like a football
The scorching hot exoplanet WASP-121b may not be shredding any heavy metal guitar riffs, but it is sending heavy metals such as iron and magnesium into space. The distant planet’s atmosphere is so hot that metal is vaporizing and escaping the planet’s gravitational pull. The intense gravity of the planet’s host star has also deformed the sizzling planet into a football…
How one fern hoards toxic arsenic in its fronds and doesn’t die
To survive high levels of arsenic, a fern sequesters the heavy metal in its shoots with the help of three proteins. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chinese-brake-fern-arsenic-fronds4…