Tag Archives: Mysterious

Lightning has long terrified and fascinated scientists and non-scientists alike. For something so relatively common, the precise atmospheric events that give rise to a lightning strike have been shrouded in mystery, but new research is offering some tantalizing clues. A team of engineers and meteorologists believe they’ve cracked the curious case of how lightning forms in the cloudtops, and their …

There’s no pill or instant fix for jet lag. But with more than 20 hours of flight time from New York to Australia on my horizon, I was eager to unearth any solution in a bid to make the most of my 10-day trip.  Friends had suggested everything from the prescription anti-anxiety drug Xanax (alprazolam) to melatonin supplements to pack …

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped some spooky looking photos of our solar system’s newest interstellar invader on the run. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted careening through the outer limits of the Sun’s domain earlier this month, and appears to be a comet. Upon closer inspection, its speed was found to be so incredible that there could be …

NASA’s Sahara Shock: The Desert’s Mysterious Greening Sparks Fierce Battle Between Climate Optimists, Deniers, and Geopolitical Hawks  Rude Baguette Source link

When NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sailed past Jupiter in 1979, it recorded a stunning and unusual phenomenon—plasma waves as it crossed the planet’s bow shock. This haunting sound, captured 46 years ago, is a striking reminder of the vast and mysterious world that lies at the heart of our solar system. The recording, which is not quite Holst’s The Planets …

A team of astronomers from Taiwan has uncovered promising evidence suggesting the existence of Planet 9, a hypothesized planet beyond Pluto in the far reaches of our Solar System. This new potential discovery, based on data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and AKARI, a Japanese infrared satellite, could mark a significant step in confirming the existence of this elusive …

When the JWST began science observations in July 2022, it flung open a whole new window on the Universe. The JWST looked further back in time than any other telescope, and it revealed several surprises. One of them was the Little Red Dots (LRD); ancient, faint objects that the powerful space telescope detected as far back as only 600 million …

Scientists Strip Cells of Mysterious Organelles To Reveal Hidden Secrets  SciTechDaily Source link

Mysterious Object Orbits the Sun Once for Every 10 Neptune Orbits—But Why?  SciTechDaily Astronomers discover strange solar system body dancing in sync with Neptune: ‘Like finding a hidden rhythm in a song’  Yahoo Home Newly Discovered Space Rock Is Caught In A Unique 10:1 Dance With Neptune  IFLScience Mysterious object found dancing with Neptune  ScienceDaily Astronomers Just Unveiled a Mysterious Object in the Outer …

In the center of our galaxy, gigantic, balloon-like structures of high-energy radiation extend thousands of light-years above and below the Milky Way’s plane. Known as the Fermi bubbles, the massive lobes may have been the result of a violent outburst in our galaxy’s recent past. A new discovery of cold hydrogen clouds embedded inside the bubbles adds another level of …