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Scientists study the center of the Coma Veronica cluster using AstroSat
(ORDO NEWS) — Using the Indian spacecraft AstroSat, astronomers have explored the center of the Coma Berenices cluster. About 321 million light-years away, the Coma Cluster (also known as Abell 1656) is one of the richest and most well-studied galaxy clusters. It contains over 1000 galaxies, and at its center are two supergiant elliptical galaxies NGC 4874 and NGC 4889. To shed more light on the properties of this cluster,…
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Astrophysicists have proven that the childhood of stars affects stellar evolution
(ORDO NEWS) — Until now, classical models of stellar evolution have paid little attention to the early stages of stellar evolution. Scientists from the University of Innsbruck have proved that the early stage of stellar development largely affects the further biography of stars. The study was published in the journal Nature Communications. Thomas Steindl and Konstanze Zwinz, researchers at the University of Innsbruck, have presented a model that can be…
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New exoplanet detection program for citizen scientists
(ORDO NEWS) — The SETI Institute and its partner Unistellar are launching a new exoplanet discovery program that will involve citizen scientists around the world. Amateur astronomers will be invited to help test the exoplanet candidates identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The Unistellar Exoplanet Campaign provides professional mentorship and curation and can make a significant contribution to exoplanet research by engaging non-professionals and students in this exciting…
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United Arab Emirates plans to launch its first lunar rover in November
(ORDO NEWS) — Hamad Al Marzouki told The National that the Rashid rover, named after Dubai’s ruling family, will be launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida between November 9 and 15. The exact date will be announced next month. The lunokhod is due to be launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and delivered to the moon by Japan’s ispace spacecraft in March. “We have finished testing the rover…
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Methods developed to study the Earth’s climate help in the search for habitable planets
(ORDO NEWS) — The recently launched James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and future telescopes such as the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), or the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will soon be able to characterize the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets. However, without reliable models to interpret these observations, we will not be able to unlock the full potential of observatories. One method is to use 3D general…
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Chinese astronauts went into outer space from a new station
(ORDO NEWS) — Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Chen Dong took to space on Saturday from China’s new space station, which will be fully completed by the end of this year. China has begun building its own space station after being excluded from the ISS program due to China’s space program being run by the military. It was the second spacewalk in a six-month mission to monitor the completion of…
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Number of ancient Martian lakes was underestimated by scientists
(ORDO NEWS) — Drawing on a meta-analysis of years of satellite data on Martian lakes, Dr. Joseph MICHALSKY, a geologist in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, suggested that scientists may have grossly underestimated the number of ancient lakes that once existed on the Red Planet. Michalsky and an international team of scientists recently published their findings in Nature Astronomy. “We know about 500 ancient…
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Artemis I mission to the Moon : researchers send dummies to measure radiation
(ORDO NEWS) — When the Artemis I mission leaves for space, its crew will include Helga and Zohar, two mannequin models developed in collaboration with Duke University. The models, which scientists call “phantoms”, are made from materials that mimic human bones, soft tissues and organs. The dummies are equipped with sensors that will measure radiation exposure during the flight to and from the moon. Paul Segars and Ehsan Samey, researchers…
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An ancient moon may be responsible for Saturn’s rings and axial tilt
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers have long suspected that Saturn’s tilt is due to gravitational interactions with its neighbor Neptune, as Saturn’s tilt precesses like a top at nearly the same rate as Neptune’s orbit. But new simulations by MIT astronomers have shown that while the two planets may have once been in sync, Saturn was able to escape Neptune’s pull. What was responsible for this planetary realignment? The team has…
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NASA’s Perseverance rover explores the geologically rich terrain of Mars
(ORDO NEWS) — NASA’s Perseverance rover is successfully conducting its second science campaign, collecting rock samples in an area that scientists have long considered the most promising for searching for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. Since July 7, the rover has collected four samples from the ancient river delta in Lake Jezero Crater, bringing the total number of rock samples taken to 12. The 45-kilometer-wide Lake Delta contains…
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Pluto as seen by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft
(ORDO NEWS) — On July 14, 2015, the first and so far the last NASA spacecraft in history flew past Pluto “New Horizons” , which told us a lot of interesting things about such an amazing object of the solar system. As you know, in 2006, Pluto was unfairly - or rather erroneously - stripped of planet status , which turned it into a “dwarf planet.” However, the New Horizons…
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How did Albert Einstein’s attitude towards nuclear weapons change
(ORDO NEWS) — The name of Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955) is strongly associated not only with theoretical physics, but also with pacifism - the policy of refusing any wars. However, as historical documents show, Einstein did not come to unshakable pacifism until the end of World War II, when he saw the consequences of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But back to the…
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Features of Pluto’s mountains
(ORDO NEWS) — Pluto is the secondplace in the solar system after the Earth , where there are high mountains with white peaks, but these “caps”, contrary to expectation, are not made of snow. According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, the peaks of the Plutonian mountains are covered with a thin layer of methane frost In addition, the mountains themselves are composed mainly of water ice,…
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Jupiter’s moon Ganymede could be home to extraterrestrial life, scientists say
(ORDO NEWS) — If not for the fact that this celestial body is a satellite of the planet Jupiter, then because of its huge size it could well pass for a planet. The diameter of Ganymede is more than 5200 km, which is even larger than Mercury and only slightly smaller than Mars. In March 2016, the Hubble Space Telescope also made a surprising discovery that points to the existence…
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Wind rules the geology of Mars
(ORDO NEWS) — Based on research from NASA’s Curiosity rover and reviewed by an astronaut during her stay on the International Space Station (ISS), in what may be the first time in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, a new paper describes how vastly different the geology of Mars is from Earth’s. This paper is part of an ongoing effort to understand the rock cycle on the Red Planet, i.e. how rock…
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Storm of historic strength will bring waves up to 16 meters high to Alaska
(ORDO NEWS) — A large portion of Alaska’s west coast is now under flood and storm warnings as forecasters warn that the remnants of a Pacific typhoon could bring 16m waves and 140kph winds to the coast this weekend. Typhoon Merbok has developed into a historically powerful storm in Alaska in the Bering Sea,” the National Weather Service said Friday. “Significant, damaging high winds and storm surges are expected to…
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La Niña climate phenomenon could cause $1 trillion in damage to the world
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists have assessed the long-term effects of atmospheric processes that cause severe storms, floods and droughts across the Earth. By the end of 2023, natural disasters will cause about $1 trillion in damage due to the lingering impact of La Niña, a global climate phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing a study by the US Climate Prediction Center. La Niña is associated…
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In flooded Pakistan, tens of thousands of people fell ill with malaria and dengue fever
(ORDO NEWS) — According to the UN, the number of victims of the strongest flood in the country in southern Asia has exceeded 1.5 thousand people. In Pakistan, after a catastrophic flood, tens of thousands of people became infected with infectious diseases transmitted through water. The most vulnerable to disease were women and children, according to Reuters, citing data from the Pakistani government and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).…
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Almost three times as many people died in the EU from the heat last summer as from the coronavirus a year earlier
(ORDO NEWS) — Extremely high temperatures in European countries are causing more and more concerns among doctors and scientists. In July 2022, excess deaths in the European Union reached an annual high due to record heat. According to the EU statistics agency Eurostat, the figure was 16% of the annual average, according to Reuters. According to experts, 53,000 more people died in European countries in the middle of summer than…
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An almost complete skeleton of a tuatara relative found in North America
(ORDO NEWS) — Although today the beak-headed reptiles are represented by a single species: the New Zealand tuatara, once it was a large detachment, whose representatives lived all over the globe. About 150 million years ago, one of these reptiles lived in North America, side by side with stegosaurus and diplodocus. The history of beakheads, an unusual detachment of modern reptiles, is more than 200 million years old, and the…
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Scientists have plotted the change in temperature in Antarctica over 45 million years
(ORDO NEWS) — A team led by scientists from the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and Birmingham (UK) has plotted temperature changes in Antarctica over 45 million years. Research results indicate that the Earth is approaching a “tipping point” when ocean warming caused by atmospheric CO2 will cause catastrophic sea level rise due to melting ice sheets. The Earth is approaching the melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Few…
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Egyptologist Zahi Hawass said he will announce the discovery of the mummy of Queen Nefertiti next month, one of the main mysteries of Egyptology
(ORDO NEWS) — On December 9, 2021, an Egyptian archaeological mission led by prominent Egyptologist and former Minister of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, resumed searching for the tomb of Queen Nefertiti on the west bank of Luxor after years of debate over the location of her final resting place. These studies have begun to bear fruit. Renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass recently stated that he is confident that the mummy he is…
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Extraterrestrial intelligence is most likely artificial, not biological
(ORDO NEWS) — Human-level organic intelligence may only be a brief lapse in human history before machines take over. Is there intelligent life in the universe? This question has been debated for centuries, if not millennia. But only recently have we had a real chance to find out, thanks to initiatives such as SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), which use radio telescopes to actively listen to radio messages from alien…
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Olive oil consumption reduces risk of death from all causes
(ORDO NEWS) — Regular consumption of olive oil helps reduce the risk of death from all causes in the long term, including due to cardiovascular disease and cancer. This conclusion is contained in a study conducted by specialists from the Spanish University of Miguel Hernandez in Elche (Autonomous Community of Valencia). According to a post published Wednesday on the university’s website, “After analyzing the diet and lifestyle of more than…
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An important find in a cave that changed our understanding of the people of the Stone Age
(ORDO NEWS) — In one of the Indonesian caves, scientists have discovered “unusual” human remains that turn our understanding of the Stone Age, reports CNN. They once again convince us of how knowledgeable our ancestors were. Many of you probably know that Africa was the cradle of mankind. However, a series of amazing fossil and DNA finds made across Asia has forced scientists to radically rethink the history of the…
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Life is an accident in time and space
(ORDO NEWS) — Life in space is a rarity: only a small part of matter exists in its living form, writes The Atlantic. Life is also fast-paced in terms of time. Recent scientific studies have shown that our existence is just an accident, one roll of the cosmic dice. Like many other inhabitants of planet Earth, I looked with bated breath at the first images taken by the James Webb…
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Rock with ‘potential signs of life’ found on Mars
(ORDO NEWS) — Mankind has been trying for many years to find evidence that once upon a time life existed on Mars. There is hope for finding extraterrestrial life - there are traces of rivers and lakes on the surface of the Red Planet, and where there is water, there could be fish, mammals, bacteria and other life forms. Since 2021, the Perseverance probe, the most expensive and powerful rover…
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Mythical islands were discovered on the medieval map of Britain, but what kind of Earth is this
(ORDO NEWS) — Medieval geographical maps in terms of accuracy and reliability of information, for obvious reasons, cannot be compared with modern ones. However, sometimes their study allows scientists to learn a lot about the past of the Earth. As you know, the landscape of our planet changes over time, large islands or even entire continents go under water. Moreover, for serious changes, millions of years are not needed at…
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Australians have discovered the oldest hearts 390-370 million years old. These are the hearts of armored fish
(ORDO NEWS) — At the 390-370 million year old Gougou site in Australia, paleontologists have discovered fossils of ancient placoderm fish with well-preserved internal organs, including the oldest known hearts. As noted in an article for the journal Science, the find allows not only to reconstruct the structure of placoderms, but also to better understand the evolution of jawed teeth, including determining the moment when lungs appeared. Unlike bones, soft…
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Strongest magnetic storm in the last four years will cover the Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — A powerful flare occurred on the Sun, which by September 17, 2022 will bring a magnetic storm to Earth. According to scientists, the coronal mass ejection of the star was the most powerful in the last four years. Experts expect that geomagnetic disturbances will be no less strong in late September and early October. The Observatory spacecraft discovered the source of the strongest solar flare back on…
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New dating of the explosion of Santorini confused the death of the Minoan civilization
(ORDO NEWS) — One of the largest eruptions in terms of volume of ejected material in the last 10 thousand years was given by the Greek volcano Santorin. It was with him that the fall of the first highly developed European civilization was long associated. It looks like it wasn’t that easy. Since the beginning of the 20th century, archaeologists have believed that the Minoan civilization that arose in Crete…
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Biologists have identified the main hunting tentacles of octopuses
(ORDO NEWS) — By watching octopuses hunt for different types of prey, scientists have found that they use a different set of limbs, depending on the prey. But the second tentacle is always included in the work and the very first. Octopuses are the most developed of the molluscs. These animals demonstrate excellent cognitive abilities, controlled by eight flexible movable limbs. Their tentacles are not identical to each other: a…
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NASA is ready to cooperate with China in space
(ORDO NEWS) — During the International Astronautical Congress, which was held in Paris from September 18 to 20, 2022, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said that the possibility of cooperation with China in space “depends on China.” He noted that China and NASA have recently coordinated their actions on issues such as the orbits of Martian spacecraft, but added that the necessary openness and transparency of actions from the Chinese side…
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