The EU’s Sentinel-2 satellite captured a stunning image this week, of the intensifying volcanic eruption on the island of La Palma.
The 20,000-mile satellite view of the La Palma volcanic eruption is in a word – terrifying.
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Colossal “Windcatchers” placed in the ocean aim to blow away outdated single-turbine wind-generation designs.
Wind Catching Systems (WCS) have introduced a spectacular new design that they say will revolutionize wind generation. Called “Windcatcher grids”, these massive wind turbine arrays look like something out of a science fiction movie – and can generate five-times as much energy as a normal wind turbine!
Are tardigrades really indestructible? Evil scientists fire one from a gun to find out.
Scientists wondered if tardigrades could survive hitching a ride on a comet to another planet. To survive such a trip, the tardigrade would have to survive shock pressures like the ones an asteroid produces. So they fired some out of a gun to find out.
The peculiar large frogmouth bird of Malaysia is terrifying! No wait… It’s laughably goofy.
Meet the terrifying large frogmouth, or Batrachostomus auritus, a bird native to Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Brunei. It’s menacing jagged shape and brown camouflaged feathers make it look like some sort of jungle stealth fighter looking for a fight. And don’t even think about getting near its baby (look closely at the picture above). It’s…
Check out the video of NASA’s historic first flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on Mars! Post-processed ZOOM too!
During the wee hours of April 19, 2021, NASA became the first to fly an object on the surface of another planet. It’s the equivalent of the historic first flight of the Wright Brothers!
Scientists discover “space hurricane” for the first time in the magnetosphere above North Pole.
Until now, scientists were not sure they even existed – a plasma hurricane in outer space called a “space hurricane”. The space hurricane, a flowing swirl of plasma similar to a real hurricane. was recorded on August 20, 2014 in the magnetosphere above the North Pole.
Archaeologists discover an intact Roman chariot near the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
We know what Roman chariots looked like from the many painting and drawings that exist from the Roman era. But last month, archaeologists discovered a new intact Roman chariot buried in the ground near the ancient city of Pompeii.
Wow! Check out NASA’s high-res video of Perseverance parachute/rocket landing on Mars.
Perseverance’s landing sequence was anything but easy. The landing involved several steps, each of which had to be executed perfectly for a safe landing. Here is a video breakdown of the landing.
And just like that, the newest iconic NASA photo is born.
A selfie photograph snapped by the Perseverance Mars rover, moments before it landed on the red planet, is being called one of the most iconic images ever taken by NASA in space.
How many black holes does it take to fill a galaxy? Apparently, a lot more than we thought.
See the “stars” in the picture above. Well, those aren’t stars. They’re supermassive black holes.
