As tragic as it is, engulfment of a planetary object by its stellar parent is a common scenario throughout the universe. But it doesn’t have to end in doom. A team of astrophysicists have used computer simulations to discover that planets can not only survive when their star eats them, but they can also drive its future evolution. Models of the formation of planetary systems have shown that many planets often end up being consumed by their parent star. It’s simply a matter of orbital dynamics. Random interactions among newly forming planets and the protoplanetary disk that surrounds a young star can…
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NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is fully operational after the mission team successfully reset the spacecraft on March 2. Back on February 18, IBEX experienced a flight computer reset during a planned contact and the spacecraft went into contingency mode. While fight computer resets have happened before, this time the team lost the ability to command the spacecraft during the subsequent reset recovery. The team also was unsuccessful in regaining command capability by resetting ground systems hardware and software. Flight software still was running, and the spacecraft systems appeared to be functional. However, while uplink signals are reaching the spacecraft,…
In 1935, Egypt was still the main draw for archaeologists digging for answers. It was hardly more than a decade since the British Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen on November 4, 1922, that had lain nearly undisturbed for over 3,000 years. Yet that is another amazing story still to be investigated. However, right now, our attention is focused on the latest attempt to hide the real ancient history of an unknown civilization that left us with great wonders both above and below the sands of the Giza Plateau. The moment Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamun ( public domain )…
The Los Angeles Lakers are certainly better than last year, although that isn’t saying too much. The 2021-22 NBA season was an utter disaster in terms of their lofty expectations, as they fell to only 33-49 despite having one of the most impressive trios of all time featuring LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and Russell Westbrook. Their championship aspirations were over as soon as the All-Star break arrived because they lacked defensive grit, and Russell Westbrook was not the answer for them at point guard. Finally, the Lakers found a way to move Russell Westbrook and somehow come close to a…
There is no question that professional athletes in a lot of American sports generally make a lot of money. Of course, the best of the best are often given endorsement deals, which further increase their earnings. Recently, Joe Pompliano shared a chart that featured the highest-paid athletes of all time. Michael Jordan topped the list with $3.3 billion in “inflation-adjusted career earnings,” and what is remarkable is that Jordan’s shoe earnings alone would have put him at No. 3. Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James was on the list as well, coming in at No. 6. Nikola Jokic Gets Real About Him Potentially Winning ThreeMVP Awards…
Ja Morant has been in the news very frequently as of late, due to an incident where the young point guard was on Instagram Live with a firearm in his hand. There is no doubt that this situation has caused a lot of speculation among analysts and fans, as many are waiting to see what the league does about the matter. Nikola Jokic Gets Real About Him Potentially Winning ThreeMVP Awards In A Row The Top 10 Highest-Paid Athletes Of All Time: Michael Jordan Leads With $3.3 Billion Amidst all the controversy and media noise, Patrick Beverley sent some support to Ja Morant on…
LeBron James has another reason to flaunt his latest piece of jewelry — a custom gold chain with a lion rewarded by his team and the league for surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the leading run-scorer in NBA history. The chain, designed by Elliante is as detailed as it can get. On the top of the box is an inscription that reads, ‘The Kid from Akron’ and the pendant is a massive lion’s head with a crown on top. James’ jersey numbers 23 and 6 are engraved as are the teams he’s played for at the back of the pendant. The best part…
The Golden State Warriors have struggled an awful lot this season but they have shown some signs of life recently. The Warriors have looked like their old selves, but Nick Wright believes they have no shot at defending their title. The co-host of FS1’s First Things First believes even the Los Angeles Lakers have a better chance than Golden State. “The Warriors have a zero percent chance of winning the title,” Wright said. “So every team that I think could do it has a better chance and the Lakers, however unlikely, we know the path. Now I could go pro political ad and tell…
This is truly a heartbreaking moment. This tale will break your heart apart because the mother’s anguish over her dead kid claims it all.In the video, a canine mother attempts to revive her deceased youngster by digging it out from the grave! Sadly, Kookie, a three-year-old lab mix, lost one of her baby after being born in a cub litter in Zamboanga, Philippines. On Monday morning, Kookie got up her owner Kaye de Luna and her family by barking ominously about a dead puppy. The dog was buried in the garden, so when their mother was taken for a walk…
Broddick’s tale was heartbreaking and moving to the bone. Some hounds chased the poor dog, and while running, he fell into a river and got stuck in it. He had many bruises and swellings on his neck, head, ears and face. His left eye was damaged and was fifty percent closed. No words could describe how desperate he took a look at that moment. A good Samaritan reached six in the early morning and took him to the emergency veterinarian. The doctor started treating Brodick’s spinal block since his herniated discs were giving him a lot of pain and trouble.…
According to The GoGo Rescue Chanal, they got a call about a poor canine collapsed on the street. Everything was bad when they came. Her stomach is puffy. They initially mistook it for a massive tumor. They hurried her to the veterinarian. As a result of the ultrasound, she has 2 babies in her stomach. She was in pain and was attempting to cling to life for her puppies. She needed immediate surgery. Although the surgery succeeded, simply one puppy was saved. The Mama canine is still very weak and in treatment at Vet and also the puppy is being…
Astronomers made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting a dormant stellar-mass black hole, the closest one to Earth yet found in the Milky Way. This first unambiguous detection of such a black hole presents an exciting opportunity for study, as it is only 1,600 light-years away and can provide insights into the evolution of binary systems. Gemini North Telescope on Hawaii reveals first dormant, stellar-mass black hole. Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth, the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. Its close proximity to Earth, a mere 1,600 light-years away, offers an intriguing target…
Never-Before-Seen Spacecraft Collision Yields Unexpected Surprises In 2022 NASA embarked on a bold experiment to see if they could change an asteroid’s velocity by smacking it with a ballistic probe – kind of like hitting it with a hammer. This experiment was to test a potential technique to someday deflect an asteroid on a collision course to Earth. Perhaps, for the first time in the history of the universe, an intelligent planetary species sought ways to avoid its own potential extinction by threats from outer space (something the dinosaurs, who were wiped out 65 million years ago by a rogue asteroid, never evolved to…
The Next full moon is the Crow, Crust, Sap, Sugar, or Worm Moon; the Lenten, Chaste, or Death Moon, the full moon of Purim; the full moon of Holi; Māgha Pūjā and Medin Poya; Mid-Sha’ban; and the Pothole Moon. The next full moon will be Tuesday morning, March 7, 2023, appearing opposite the Sun in Earth-based longitude at 7:40 AM EST. This will be on Wednesday morning from Kamchatka and Fiji Time eastward to the International Date Line. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Sunday evening through Wednesday morning (and possibly early Wednesday evening).…
About 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called Theia catastrophically struck Earth, throwing out a ring of material that eventually accreted into the Moon NASA’s Ames Research Center Hi folks, tune in every week of 2023 for the best in astronomy from Astronomy Editor Dave Eicher, brought to you by Celestron. https://youtu.be/DSEqoFuTgvs This week, we’ll discuss the formation of Earth’s only natural satellite, the Moon! When we look up at the night sky, it’s easy to see the Moon and assume it’s always been there. But that’s not the case. About 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called…
At the end of this season, the Los Angeles Lakers will have some decisions to make about their roster, as a number of their players could potentially hit free agency and will have the opportunity to go elsewhere. There are obviously some players that the Lakers should let go due to their performances this season, but there are others that they absolutely need to retain if they are to be a competitive team going forward. The Lakers have built up a solid young core after their moves at the trade deadline, and extending some of their young free agents makes…
The NBA Draft is the ultimate lottery draw displayed on national television in front of hundreds of thousands of fans. With every selection, a franchise’s future could hang in the balance as every one of them seeks their new franchise player. Sometimes, the pick works out and the team ends up with a great player who steered their franchise in the right direction for years to come. Other times can be a disaster, setting the franchise back at least a year. You never know where in the draft a future superstar may lie which is what makes the entire process…
The Phoenix Suns may have been dubbed genuine title contenders after they landed Kevin Durant in a blockbuster trade, but an NBA analyst believes they do have two massive concerns. “Following the addition of Durant, the largest looming concern for Phoenix for the rest of the season is health,” wrote CBS Sports’ Michael Kaskey-Blomain. 3 Crucial Players The Lakers Need To Keep Past ThisSeasonRead More He also added that Phoenix would struggle in the absence of a key contributor. “As currently constructed, they’re just not built to survive a sustained absence from a key contributor, and therein lies Phoenix’s second biggest…
LeBron James and Michael Jordan are widely considered to be the only two players that are in contention for the NBA GOAT honor. The two have dominated at the highest level during their careers, and the debate about which of them is the better player is never-ending. Recently, we saw LeBron James reveal through a Tweet that he had a dream about facing off against Michael Jordan. James’ former teammate Kyle Kuzma hilariously reacted to the Tweet, stating “LeSweetDreams”, clearly a play on the superstar’s name. This is a hilarious post from Kyle Kuzma, as he is trying to troll his…
There was a lot of concern about how the Los Angeles Lakers would cope with LeBron James’ absence and they have gone 2-2 so far. There is some confidence within the fanbase now, as they debated on Reddit whether the team can win its next 5 games against the Grizzlies, Raptors, Knicks, Pelicans, and Rockets. “I think we go 4-1, we should go 5-0 but maybe something is gonna go wrong like some scrub gonna have 11 3s at halftime.” said a fan who thinks they’re only going to lose once. “I’m most worried about the Knicks. If we get DLO back…
The Golden State Warriors were supposed to be heading into the 2023 season following a championship, their 4th in their ranks. The Warriors got the job done thanks to their core of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green, although Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins had invaluable roles as well and deserve their credit. It was certainly an impressive title run by the team last year, especially since they took down a talented Boston Celtics side led by Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown in the NBA Finals. But instead of challenging this season, the Warriors are not as dominant as…
The Big Bang may have not been alone. The appearance of all the particles and radiation in the universe may have been joined by another Big Bang that flooded our universe with dark matter particles. And we may be able to detect it. In the standard cosmological picture the early universe was a very exotic place. Perhaps the most momentous thing to happen in our cosmos was the event of inflation, which at very early times after the Big Bang sent our universe into a period of extremely rapid expansion. When inflation ended, the exotic quantum fields that drove that event…
The search for extraterrestrial life has been a topic of scientific inquiry and public fascination for decades. Scientists use various methods, such as studying other planets and moons in our own solar system, analyzing signals from distant stars, and searching for biosignatures in the atmosphere of exoplanets, to try to answer the question of whether we are alone in the universe. Despite ongoing searches and discoveries, the question of whether there is life beyond Earth remains one of the greatest mysteries of our time and continues to inspire and intrigue scientists and the general public alike. Deep learning techniques uncovered…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off the pad at Launch Complex 39A at 12:34 a.m. EST on March 2, 2023, carrying the Dragon spacecraft Endeavour for NASA’s Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station. Aboard Dragon are NASA astronauts, Stephen Bowen, spacecraft commander, and Warren Hoburg, pilot, along with mission specialists Sultan Alneyadi, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut, and Andrey Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut. Credit: NASA Crew members assigned to NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission are in orbit following their successful launch to the International Space Station (ISS) at 12:34 a.m. EST Thursday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The international…