On Saturday, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin approved the proposals, extending the agreement until the end of 2030. According to a missive from officials, it will underwrite “the exploration and the use of outer space for peaceful purposes” for the best part of the coming decade. “This document is one …
Read More »Nearest star cluster to Earth is being RIPPED APART by something massive we can’t see
Astronomer Tereza Jerabkova and her colleagues from the European Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory pored over the information contained in Gaia Data Release 2.5 (DR2.5) and DR3. The Gaia space observatory maps the Milky Way galaxy in three dimensions with the highest degree of detail that current-generation technology …
Read More »A distant star just exploded, went nova and is visible from Earth right now
Nakamura observed the stellar explosion on March 18, 2021 using his 135-millimeter lens and a 15-second exposure. He reported the magnitude-9.6 glow to the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), which deployed a series of powerful telescopes to make observations which confirmed that it was indeed a classical nova, which …
Read More »As Elon Musk speaks of ‘MULTIPLANETARY’ vision, Bernie Sanders tries to drag him back down to earth with scheme to tax the rich
A Twitter row between the self-described ‘democratic socialist’ senator and the ‘self-made billionaire’ began on Thursday, when Sanders complained that Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans. “That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral,” he said, “it is unsustainable.” Notwithstanding …
Read More »NASA warns of STADIUM-SIZED asteroid headed towards Earth
When not keeping a close eye on its Perseverance rover, which touched down on Mars this week, NASA is busy monitoring the sky for potential threats to life on Earth – namely asteroids. And this week is no exception, as five such space rocks are due to buzz the planet …
Read More »Pandemic will be with us until EVERYONE on earth given Covid-19 vaccine, says Merkel after G7 summit
Speaking to reporters, Merkel said she had stressed in her remarks to the group that the “pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated,” adding: “Everyone must participate.” “The [coronavirus] pandemic in particular has shown how much we are diverging from one another, worldwide.” On …
Read More »NASA’s TESS discovers new ‘Earth-sized’ exoplanets floating in a ‘river of stars’
The three hot worlds, each slightly larger than our own, were detected orbiting a much younger version of our sun called TOI 451, located some 400 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The star boasts 95 percent of our Sun’s mass, despite being 12 percent smaller and emitting 35 percent …
Read More »Trump once had a strategy for China. Now it’s turned into a scorched earth policy
The Trump administration is on its last legs. It’s been deplatformed almost universally across social media, it’s been impeached again, and it’s got a week to go – yet that still has not stopped an endless spree of utterly reckless and bizarre measures against China that serves no purpose other …
Read More »‘Most inoculated place on Earth’? Disneyland to become Covid vaccination ‘super site’ in Anaheim, California
Orange County announced on Monday that its first large coronavirus vaccination center would be housed at the iconic theme park. Described as a “super POD” (point-of-dispensing), it will be able to vaccinate “thousands” of residents each day, county officials said. “Coronavirus has brought both a public health crisis and economic …
Read More »Happiest place on Earth? Disney axes 32,000 jobs as Covid-19 pandemic leaves theme parks empty
According to the company’s filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the layoff of 32,000 workers, which is 4,000 more than Disney had earlier announced, will happen in the first half of its fiscal year which began in October. Earlier this month, Disney announced plans for additional redundancies from …
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