The image vividly captures the Moon’s shadow obscuring part of Earth’s surface. This shadow, moving at nearly 2,000 km/h 🌍🌑, creates a total solar eclipse only for observers located within the center of the dark circle. For others, the event offers a partial eclipse, where the Moon covers only part of the Sun’s disk ☀️. […]
The massive iceberg A23a, which calved from Antarctica’s ice shelf in 1986, has started moving north for the first time in decades. Covering an area of 3,800 square kilometers and standing 400 meters tall, the iceberg had remained stationary in the Southern Ocean for nearly 40 years. In 2020, A23a began showing signs of activity, […]
For the first time, American scientists have observed semi-Dirac fermions—quasiparticles with a unique property: they gain mass when moving in one direction but lose it in another. These fermions, theoretically predicted in 2008-2009, were discovered serendipitously in the crystal structure of the semimetal ZrSiS. The research, conducted using magneto-optical
A recent study suggests that the orbits of planets in the Solar System could have been disrupted by an interstellar object in the distant past. Researchers propose that the current slightly tilted and elongated planetary orbits, which should have originally been circular and aligned with the Sun’s equatorial plane, might have been altered by external […
Researchers at MIT have developed a metabolic imaging technique that triples the penetration depth of laser light into biological tissues. By employing multimodal optical fibers and adaptive laser control, they achieved a depth of up to 700 micrometers—far surpassing the previous limit of 200 micrometers. This noninvasive approach allows for real-time
Astronomers have identified a unique galaxy, nicknamed “Firefly Sparkle,” that formed just 600 million years after the Big Bang. Despite its ancient origins, this galaxy bears a striking resemblance to the Milky Way in terms of mass and structure. The discovery was made possible through the James Webb Space Telescope and the gravitational lensing effect, […