• Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 6 months, 3 weeks ago

    In A World-First, Astronomers Have Witnessed A Supermassive Black Hole “Waking Up” And Brightening In Real-Time. Located 360 Million Light-Years Away In Galaxy SDSS1335+0728, The Black Hole Has Shown Increased Luminosity Since 2019, But Its Activation Cause Remains Unknown. Similar Activation Could Occur With Sagittarius A* In Our Galaxy.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 7 months, 3 weeks ago

    Astronomers Discovered WASP-193b, An Exoplanet 50% Larger Than Jupiter But Only 14% Of Its Mass, Making It The 2nd Lightest Known Planet After Kepler 51d. Located 1,200 LY Away, The “Puffy Jupiter” Is Likely Comprised Mainly Hydrogen & Helium, And Its Extended Atmosphere Is Ideal For Studying Its Planetary Formation With Tools Like JWST.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 9 months ago

    Astronomers Observed, For The First Time, The ‘Glory Effect’ (GE) On An Exoplanet, WASP-76b, Similar To Earth’s & Venus‘s. It Features Concentric, Colorful Rings Of Light Caused By Light Reflecting Off Clouds Made Of A Uniform Substance. Extreme Conditions—Scorching Dayside, Nightside Iron Rain—Permit GE, Offering Insights Into Alien Atm.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 1 year, 2 months ago

    Geophysical Findings Reveal Deniliquin, A 520km-Wide Impact Structure Submerged Beneath NSW, Australia, Surpassing The Largest Known Impact Crater (IC), South Africa’s Vredefort Crater. Sediment Analysis Suggests An Impact 440-500 Myrs Ago. Rock Sample Recovery Is Crucial To Confirm Its Meteoritic Origin. Most IC Are Less Than 200 Myrs Old.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of EducationEducation 1 year, 4 months ago

    Harvard University Inaugurated Claudine Gay As Its First Black And Second Female President. Gay, The 30th President In Harvard’s History, Is A 1998 Distinguished Harvard Alum And Accomplished Political Scholar. Gay’s Tenure Follows Her Role As Dean Of The Faculty Of Arts And Sciences And Founding Chair Of The Inequality In America Initiative.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 1 year, 7 months ago

    Scientists Found 50 Tiny Microscopic Sphere Fragments Of A Mysterious Meteor, From Outside Our Solar System, Which Crashed Into The Pacific Ocean, Near Papua New Guinea, In 2014. Further Testing Is Required To Determine If These Spheres, Made Of A Unique Metallic Substance, Are Natural Or Of Technological Origin, Which Could Signify Alien Life.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of OtherOther 2 years, 9 months ago

    Prof. Avi Loeb, A Controversial Scientist, Is Stating That The Object He Identified As Interstellar, Which Crashed Into The Pacific In 2014, Could Be An Alien Craft. Prof. Loeb’s Speculation Comes After A US Space Command Report Indicated The Object To Be A Meteor. Prof. Loeb, Recently, Is Focused On The Possibility Of Life Beyond Earth.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 2 years, 11 months ago

    Researchers Have Discovered, In NE China, The Largest Impact Crater That Formed On Earth In The Last 100000 Years. The Crescent-Shaped Crater, Called “Yilan Crater,” Is The Second Impact Crater Discovered In China. The Crater, ~46,000 To 53,000 Years Old, Is ~1.15 Miles Across. The Meteor Crater In Arizona Previously Held The Record.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of AnimalAnimal 3 years, 3 months ago

    Researchers Found, In A 16 Myr Old Dominican Amber, A Third Known Fossil Of A Tardigrade. The Fossil, Called Paradoryphoribius Chronocaribbeus, A New Species & Relative Of The Living Tardigrades Isohypsibioidea Species, Is The First From The Cenozoic Era (Began ~66 Mya). A Tardigrade Fossil Find Is Said To Be A Once In A Generation Event.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of OtherOther 3 years, 8 months ago

    Ganymede, The Largest Moon In Our Solar System, Larger Than Mercury And Pluto, Will Experience Its First Closest Encounter In 20 Years, Since Galileo Spacecraft Approached It At ~502 Miles In May 2000. NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Will, On 06/07/2021, Approach Ganymede At ~645 Miles To Enable Researchers Better Understand Its Composition.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of AnimalAnimal 3 years, 8 months ago

    Tardigrades, Aka Water Bears Or Moss Piglets, Are One Of Nature’s Toughest/Indestructible Critters And Can Survive Being 1) Frozen For ~30 Years, 2) Inside A Volcano, 3) In Space, And 4) About A Mile Underground In The Antarctic Lake. However, Researchers Have Discovered That Tardigrades Die When Shot Out Of A Gun At Speeds Of More Than 2000 MPH.…

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 3 years, 10 months ago

    Researchers, Based On NASA’s Chandra Observatory Snapshots In 2002 And 2017, Have For The First Time Discovered X-Ray Activity From Uranus, With Most X-Rays Scattered From The Sun. But Other X-Rays Are Unaccounted For, As Researchers Think Uranus Rings, Like Saturn’s Rings, Could Be An X-ray Source. The X-Rays Could Broaden Our Understanding Of Uranus.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 3 years, 12 months ago

    2 Types Of Unidentified Stationary Animals Were Unexpectedly Found Attached To A Boulder, ~2,860 Ft Beneath Antarctica’s Filchner-Ronne Ice Sheet, In Frigid Temp. With Lack Of Light And Food Conditions Thought Incapable Of Supporting Life. One Of The Animals Seem To Have long Stalks, While The Other Looks Like A Round Sponge-Like Animal.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 4 years ago

    Researchers May Have Discovered The Oldest Rocky Planet, TOI-561b, In Our Galaxy. The Planet, Same Density As Earth But 1.5X Earth’s Size, Orbits Its 10 Byr-Old Sun Every 12 Hrs Due To Their Closeness, Giving TOI-561b A Surface Temp. Of Over 1,700 °C. TOI-561b Indicates Rocky Planets Were Forming Since The Universe Inception 14 Byr Ago.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 4 years, 3 months ago

    Researchers Have Discovered Another Strange Planet, K2-141b, Where It Rains Rocks On Its NightSide. The Temperature Of The Planet On The Dayside Can Reach 5,400 ℉. The Planet’s Molten Lava Ocean, Atmosphere, And Surface Are Said To Comprise The Same Rock Ingredient. All Rocky Planets, Including Earth, Were Once At This Molten Stage.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 4 years, 5 months ago

    Researchers May Have Determined That The Largest Jupiter’s Moon And One Of The 10 Largest Bodies In Our Solar System, Ganymede, Is The Site Of The Biggest Impact Crater (~4,850 miles Radius) In Our Solar System. They Realized This By Studying The Images From Previous Probes That Passed Jupiter And Its Moons, And Also Via Computer Modelling.…

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 4 years, 7 months ago

    Scientists, Using Gravitational Wave Detectors In The US And Italy, Have Made A Major Discovery That Questions The Ideas For How Neutron Stars And Black Holes Form. The Discovery Is An Object Scientists Are Calling “Black Neutron Stars,” Which Is More Massive Than Collapsed Stars, Aka “Neutron Stars,” But Has Less Mass Than Black Holes.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 4 years, 11 months ago

    An Exoplanet, WASP-76b, 640 LY From Earth, Is Said To Rain Liquid Iron. Researchers, Using The European Very Large Telescope (VLT), Observed That On The Side Of The Planet Permanently Facing Its Sun, Temperature Exceeds 2,400 °C, Vaporizing Iron. While It Rains Iron On The Night Side Of the Planet, Where Temperature Cools To About 1,500 °C.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 4 years, 11 months ago

    Wow! An Exoplanet, Called NGTS-10b, Which’s ~20% Bigger Than Jupiter And Twice Its Mass Has Been Found To Yearly Revolve Around Its Sun Every 18 Hours Due To Its Closeness To The Sun (~27X Closer Than Mercury Is To Our Sun). Also, One Side Of The Planet Perpetually Faces Its Sun And Reaches About 1,832F On The Surface.

  • Kandice Tirado posted an update in the group Group logo of OtherOther 5 years, 1 month ago

    This Statement From Dr. Helen Sharman, 56, Who Is The First British Astronaut To Go Into Space, Heavily Gives Support To The Hypothesis That Space Aliens Already Live Among Us, On Earth, And That They May Be Invisible. She Said This Given The Billions Of Stars Out There, Which Increases The Possibility Of Other Existing Life Forms.

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