[ It’s shadow time, baby! Soon, people living in North America will get to experience their first solar eclipse in almost a decade. Even though the last solar eclipse in North America happened in 2017, the next one isn’t expected until August 2044, so seizing this moment is critical. More than just a peculiar shadow, … Read more
[ In other anecdotes, onlookers have reported birds that stop singing, crickets that stopped chirping, or bees that return to their hive, reduce their foraging, or suspend their flight during total darkness. But there are also studies that deny that some of these behaviors occur or can be attributed to the eclipse. Therefore, NASA scientists … Read more
[ If you live in the US and missed the last total solar eclipse in 2017, good news! You’re about to get another chance. There will be a total solar eclipse passing through Texas and the Midwest states on April 8. Remember that in a solar eclipse, the moon’s shadow falls on the Earth. If … Read more
[ It’s shadow time, baby! Soon, people living in North America will get to experience their first solar eclipse in almost a decade. Even though the last solar eclipse in North America happened in 2017, the next one isn’t expected until August 2044, so seizing this moment is critical. More than just a peculiar shadow, … Read more
[ It is currently the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world are practising a period of fasting and religious devotion. But soon the dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan will draw to a close, and then it’s time for Eid al-Fitr. This roughly translates as “festival of breaking the … Read more
[ Sushant Singh Rajput, the late actor, was known for his profound interest in science, particularly in Physics and astronomy. His passion for space led him to acquire one of the most advanced telescopes in the country. Notably, he would bring this telescope to the sets of ‘Sonchiriya‘ and make his co-actors witness the beauty … Read more
[ A total solar eclipse is coming to North America on April 8. The Great North American Eclipse, as it has been dubbed, will be visible across 13 US States, plus parts of Mexico and eastern Canada. But it will not look the same for everybody. For those living along the path of totality—the projection … Read more
[ But the solar system contains more than two masses. In fact, it started as a big cloud of dust without any planets and without the sun, and every speck of dust had an attractive interaction with every other speck. That’s a lot of complicated stuff going on, but there’s a trick we can use … Read more
[ Illustration: Rhett Allain You can see that we have a right triangle with the hypotenuse equal to the distance from the observer’s eyes to the center of the Earth (R + h), with the other two sides being just R and the distance to the horizon (s). Using the Pythagorean theorem, we can solve … Read more
[ After the collapse of the world’s second-largest radio telescope in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, China’s massive 500 metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope ( FAST) is now the only giant, single-dish telescope in the world – but it will not open to global scientists until next year. The Arecibo Observatory, suspended by cables connected to … Read more
