FP TrendsJuly 22, 2020 08:58:31 IST To fill the massive gaps in our understanding of the Sun, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the Solar Orbiter mission on February 9, 2020. The spacecraft completed its first close pass of the Sun in …
Read More »SpaceX satellites ruin a perfectly good view of Comet NEOWISE
An image of the damaged NEOWISE comet by Starlink satellites.Photo: Daniel Lopez No place is safe from light pollution, not even space. On Wednesday, astrophotographer Daniel López shared a photo he captured of NEOWISE kite The day before in the Teide National Park in the Canary Islands. However, SpaceX’s Starlink …
Read More »Ancient East Antarctica Ice Loss paints the dark picture of what follows
A glacier crawls down a valley at the edge of the Ross Sea near McMurdo Station in Antarctica.Photo: Mark Ralson / AFP (fake pictures) A new document suggests that the East Antarctic ice sheet may not be as stable as we thought. Looking at ancient melting, the study finds evidence …
Read More »‘Essentially we cook’ if we don’t fix the air conditioning
We need more of these, but we need them to be climate friendly.Photo: Dirk waem (fake pictures) A new United Nations report shows why cleaning the air conditioner is crucial. In fact, the authors found that switching to climate-friendly, energy-efficient air conditioning units could save the world up to 460 …
Read More »The world needs more than new whoppers to solve its methane problem
We need less of these in the future.Photo: Justin Sullivan (fake pictures) Burger King has just released a Low methane whopper, made by changing the diets of the cows, with a super cringe ad campaign. It is intended to be a small solution to a serious problem: methane has a …
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