Five thousand known worlds. That is the next, most ballyhooed milestone in the ongoing hunt for exoplanets, the confirmed total of which presently tallies just a few hundred shy in our catalogues. More remarkable than these sheer numbers, however, is the diversity they reveal.
The latest bizarre exoplanet to challenge our preconceptions and reinforce just how much we still have to discover is GJ 367b, a world so strange it seems more suited for a heavy-metal album cover or the pages of a pulpy sci-fi story rather than reality.
Elon Musk Tweets About His Car Orbiting Mars, Gets Corrected by a Harvard Professor | Tech Times
Spiders' motion on a web studied as electrons orbiting a nucleus
While the details of the precise physics ultimately diverged from both atomic and cosmic levels, the concept proved useful.
Just as the smaller planets have their own gravitational pull, the males also attract one another— initially approaching the perceived rival. The males also start to repel each other as they get closer and closer, in this way behaving much more like electrons around a nucleus.
Do you still orbit your ex's world? - Hindustan Times
In the era of social media, you are bound to bump into your ex. Most probably, they remain in your social media circle.They might retweet your latest meme, like your insta posts and go through your Snapchat stories, and that too after a breakup. This behaviour is called orbiting.
"I met this guy on a dating app. He was in Paris studying at University and I was in Delhi. We hit it off well as we were the alumni of the same school. We met for a couple of days but it soon fizzled out. The funny fact is that he still views my stories on Instagram.
Astronomers discover that a galaxy orbiting the Milky Way is home to a supermassive black hole -
Astronomers have recently discovered that a small satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way is home to an unusually massive black hole.
According to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal, the central region of the galaxia enana Leo I it has a supermassive black hole, compared to the mass of the galaxy. This has around 3.3 million solar masses , about 16% of the total mass of the galaxy.
Space station dodges space debris from decades-old Pegasus rocket | Space
The International Space Station dodged a fragment of a decades-old rocket body early Friday morning, continuing a stretch of space debris threats to the orbiting laboratory.
On Friday (Dec. 3) at around 3 a.m.
In a tweet posted on Wednesday (Dec. 1), Roscosmos flagged the risk posed by the rocket fragment, which it said was estimated to pass as close as 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) to the space station.
What were those strange lights in the sky? Experts say SpaceX satellites | WETM - MyTwinTiers.com
ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – If you looked up on Saturday, you may have noticed a strange string or lights or orbs floating across the night sky.
You’ll see them within four or five days after they initially shoot up the rocket,” Tracy Sink of the Wings of Eagles Discovery Center in Horseheads said.
Dan Hart, President and CEO of Virgin Orbit
Throughout his career, Dan Hart has put purpose at the forefront of what he does. Having joined Sir Richard Branson's innovative commercial space firm, Virgin Orbit , in 2017, he uses orbiting assets to enable better communication, navigation and understanding of our planet.
"My passion and purpose in my career has always been developing new capabilities to broaden humanity's abilities to understand ourselves through looking to the heavens," he shares.
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