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by Kerry SHERIDAN MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A $1.1 billion NASA spacecraft called Juno must dodge debris and extreme radiation Monday as it attempts to orbit Jupiter, on a high-stakes mission to probe the origin of the solar system. Juno is expected to arrive late Monday in the vicinity of the largest planet in our cosmic neighborhood, five years after the unmanned solar-powered observatory launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. “We are barrelling down on […]
Sa patuloy ng paglalayag ng National Aeronautics and Space Administration o NASA gamit ang Juno spacecraft, uumpisahan na bukas, July 4 ng NASA ang pakikipagtulungan sa mga nangungunang amateurs at mga professional astronomers sa buong mundo. Kabilang dito ang Pinoy amateur astronomer mula sa Cebu na si Christopher Go, isang leading planetary imager na mahigit labindalawang taon nang nagsasagawa ng obserbasyon sa planetang Jupiter.
By Aimee V. Mendoza Have you been in an expedition this summer? Summer is short but you can make the most out of it. Like what I did. I went to Italy, Scotland, King’s Bay in Madagascar and even in the legendary free colony that was built by pirates and the pirate Captain Avery – Libertalia. I had climbed mountains, had seen breathtaking sceneries, faced near-death jumps on cliffs, rode on a 4×4 off-road on muddy […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Pedestrians glued to their smartphones were given something else to look at this week, as officials in Seoul launched a safety campaign to keep them from walking into busy traffic. Smartphone related collisions between pedestrians and vehicles in South Korea have more than doubled in five years to around 1,000 reported incidents in 2014, according to the Transportation Safety Authority. The problem is especially acute in a country where smartphone […]
As part of its Project Premonition research program, which seeks to detect emerging infectious diseases, Microsoft has been deploying a new prototype mosquito trap in Houston, Texas. The trap is designed to collect only the specific type of mosquito a researcher wants to analyze and the company hopes it will help in the tracking of the mosquito-borne Zika virus. The current Zika outbreak was first detected last year in Brazil and has been linked to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Astronomers announced Monday the discovery of the youngest planet ever found outside our solar system, lending new insight into how planetary systems form. The 11 million-year-old exoplanet, named K2-33b, swiftly orbits around its star — K2-33 — in just 5.4 days. The exoplanet’s existence suggests that planets can quickly finalize their orbital distances after forming. Astronomers have published details of their findings in the Astronomical Journal, a scientific review published […]
Jeff Bezos’ space transportation company Blue Origin on Sunday (June 19) successfully launched and landed for the fourth time a suborbital rocket capable of carrying six passengers. The New Shepard rocket and capsule blasted off from a launch site in West Texas and landed minutes later back at a landing pad. The capsule, which was flying autonomously, parachuted to a nearby site. “Successful mission,” Bezos declared on Twitter. The founder of Amazon.com has said that […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — A three-man crew, including British astronaut Tim Peake, landed in the Kazakh Steppe on Saturday after completing a six-month mission at the International Space Station (ISS). Peake, the first British astronaut on the ISS, Russia’s Yury Malenchenko and NASA’s Tim Kopra parachuted down to Earth in their Soyuz capsule at 0915 GMT after spending 186 days in orbit. Video footage from the landing site, southeast of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan, […]
REUTERS — A Soyuz TMA-19m capsule with three Expedition 47 crew members aboard undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and began its return to earth on Saturday (June 18). The separation occurred at 0552 GMT Saturday and the capsule slowly moved away from the space station. The Soyuz capsule contained Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA’s U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Briton Tim Peake, and is expected to touch down […]
by Laurence COUSTAL Mariëtte Le Roux PARIS, France (AFP) — First postulated more than 230 years ago, black holes have been extensively researched, frequently depicted, even featured in sci-fi films. We’ve all seen the artists’ impressions and read of their ravenous star-gobbling feasts. But here’s the thing… science is still not 100 percent sure what they look like, how they behave or even that they exist. Telescopes have never seen a black hole, and the […]
by Rob Lever NATIONAL, HARBOR, United States (AFP) — A new maker of self-driving vehicles burst onto the scene Thursday in partnership with IBM’s supercomputer platform Watson, and it’s ready to roll right now. The vehicle — a 3D-printed minibus called “Olli” capable of carrying 12 people — was unveiled by Arizona-based startup Local Motors outside the US capital city Washington. Olli was designed as an on-demand transportation solution that passengers can summon with a […]
LOS ANGELES , United States (AFP) — Wizards duel and players transform into tribal warriors and fierce jaguars — welcome to the world of virtual reality at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game industry gathering. Virtual reality games got very real at E3 this year as studios show off titles tailored for Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, and Galaxy Gear VR headsets. “It feels like VR is everywhere and dominating the industry right […]
