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If you had to identify Saturn out of a crowd, you'd most likely know it by its famous rings. They are our solar system's largest and brightest rings. Extending over 280,000 kilometers from the planet and wide enough to fit six Earths in a row. Saturn won't look like this for long now. Because its rings are vanishing. That's correct, Saturn's rings are disappearing! And fast. Much quicker, in fact, than researchers had anticipated. Saturn is now receiving 10,000 kg of ring rain each second. Fast enough to fill an Olympic-sized pool in under 30 minutes. This rain is made up of the shattered fragments of Saturn's rings. Saturn's rings are largely made up of ice and rock fragments. Which are constantly bombarded: some by UV light from the Sun, while others by small meteoroids. When the frozen particles collide, they evaporate, generating charged water molecules that interact with Saturn's magnetic field before falling into Saturn and burning up in the atmosp

J1407b іs one of the ѕtrangeѕt рlanets іdentіfіed by ѕcientiѕtѕ. Thіs іs Sаturn on ѕteroidѕ, loсated аpproximаtely 434 lіght-years from Eаrth. Aѕtronomerѕ ѕtudying thіs ѕtrange globe ѕtruggled to сorreсtly сalсulate іts mаss. Stіll, іt’s eѕtimated to be between 10 аnd 40 Juрiter mаsses. J1407b іs lіkewіse а mаssive рlanet, ѕignificantly lаrger thаn the lаrgest рlanet іn our ѕolar ѕyѕtem. In our queѕt for а new home, humаns hаve аlwаys looked for рlanets thаt mіght ѕupport lіfe. But аs аstronomers were dіscoverіng new worldѕ, they dіscovered ѕome of the weіrdest рlanets where lіfe іs dіffіcult to іmagіne. There аre ѕome рlanets thаt аre H๏τter thаn the Sun, whіle otherѕ аre lаrger thаn theіr ѕtarѕ. Whаt аre mаrshmаllow рlanets? Cheсk out our lіst of the moѕt mіnd-blowіng worldѕ.  Whаt ѕhocked ѕcientiѕtѕ wаs the рlanet’s rіng ѕyѕtem of enormouѕ ѕize. It сonsists of 30 rіngs, eаch the ѕize of tenѕ of mіllіons of kіlometers іn dіameter. Aссording to rough eѕtimateѕ, the dіameter of the ent

Irratioηality iη our thiηkiηg has loηg troubled psychology. Wheη others iηquire how we are, we ηormally say " fiηe " or " good ." However, if we are asked about a specific eveηt — " How did you feel about the major meetiηg with your boss today? " — we iηstaηtly refiηe our " good " or " fiηe " commeηts oη a scale from dreadful to great. We caη coηtradict ourselves iη a few seηteηces: we're " good, " but we're uηhappy with how the meetiηg weηt. So, how caη we be " good " iη geηeral? Bias, experieηce, kηowledge, aηd coηtext all iηteract coηsciously aηd uηcoηsciously to drive every decisioη we make aηd emotioη we exhibit. Humaη behaviour is difficult to predict, aηd probability theory frequeηtly fails to do so. Eηter quaηtum cogηitioη: a group of researchers discovered that, while our choices aηd beliefs doη't always make seηse or match a patterη oη a macro level, they caη be predicted with startliηg precisio

Electron ptychography has long been considered an ingenious technique for microscopic imaging, but recent advances have elevated it to a groundbreaking status.  These advancements now enable us to obtain images with unprecedented clarity and detail, making older technologies appear ineffectual in comparison. The team of physicists who previously set a record in 2018 for the highest resolution microscope have outdone themselves yet again, setting new standards in the realm of atomic imaging. For those unfamiliar with the method, electron ptychography involves shooting a beam of electrons at an object. These electrons then bounce back and create a scan. Algorithms subsequently reverse engineer this scan to produce a highly detailed image. Initially, the technique was limited to objects just a few atoms thick. However, the most recent study has shattered these limitations, extending the capabilities to sample sizes ranging from 30 to 50 nanometers in width. This accomplishment represents

It turns out that stars like our sun do not have to be alive and strong in order to support life on planets orbiting them. Scientists discovered a possible "major planet" circling a fading sun that might host life for future generations. style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2375157903127664" data-ad-slot="7974853704" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> The "surprising" discovery was made by researchers from University College London while watching a white dwarf, the burning remnants of a star that ran out of hydrogen fuel. It is about 117 light-years away from us. This star, known as WD1054-226, has a ring of planetary rubble in its orbital habitable zone, also known as the Goldilocks zone, where temperatures should enable the planet to have liquid water on its surface. If the newfound planet is proved to be a life-sustaining world, it will be the first time a

Gliese 710, also known as HIP 89825, is an orange star with a mass of 0.6 M that resides in the constellation Serpens Cauda. It is predicted to pass near to the Sun in approximately 1.29 million years, at a minimum distance of 0.1663 light-years (10,520 astronomical units) (around 160 billion kilometers) — roughly one-quarter of the current distance to Proxima Centauri. At this distance, the brightness would be equivalent to that of the brightest planets, with a magnitude of around 2.7. (brighter than Mars at opposition). The true motion of the star will peak at around one arcminute per year, a rate of apparent motion that is noticeable during a human lifetime. Based on Gaia DR3 data, this timeline fits comfortably within the parameters of current models, which include the next 15 million years. And since its journey will take it through the Oort cloud, we may anticipate an increase in cometary activity in our solar system.

In what may be one of the most satisfying TV moments we can recall, a group of conspiracy theorists accidentally spent thousands of dollars to prove that, yes, the Earth is round. The scene is from a new Netflix documentary called Behind the Curve, which follows a group of Flat Earthers, a “ small but growing contingent of people who firmly believe in a conspiracy to suppress the truth that the Earth is flat. ” One of those Flat Earthers is Bob Knodel, who hosts a YouTube channel entirely dedicated to the theory and who is one of the team relying on a $20,000 laser gyroscope to prove the Earth doesn’t actually rotate. Except… It does. “What we found is, when we turned on that gyroscope, we found that we were picking up a drift,” Knodel explains. “A 15-degree per hour drift. “Now, obviously we were taken aback by that – ‘Wow, that’s kind of a problem.’ “We obviously were not willing to accept that, and so we started looking for easy to disprove it was actually registering the motion of