Just around the corner from the Easter holiday, you may be wondering which stores are open and what are closed on Easter Sunday this year? Many large stores will close their doors to give leave to their front workers. Target, Sam Club, Costco and Messi are among the dozens of …
Read More »Friday’s jobs report will be released on the closed stock market – the only 12 times since 1980
Good Friday is next week and the markets will be closed as usual. What is unusual, however, is that the U.S. And with financial exchanges closing in some other parts of the world, the government is preparing to release a major report on employment amid the epidemic. Why is the …
Read More »Earth’s second ‘moon’ will take the final lap before we fly bye-bye for good
Earth’s second moon will approach Earth before going into space next week, never to be seen again. “Which other moon,” you ask? Astronomers call it 2020 SO – a small object that orbited Earth between our planet and the Moon in September 2020. Temporary satellites like these are known as …
Read More »Yes, 2020 was difficult. But here are 5 things we are relieved that did not happen
It has been twelve months since we counted the last minutes of 2019 and we have shouted ‘Happy New Year’ with joy. We were happily unaware of what was in store for us in the following days. For those who have lost their livelihood, their health or, most tragically, their …
Read More »The asteroid Apophys has a slim chance of hitting us in 2068. Scientists are making plans
It is comforting to imagine that trained in the universe on both space- and earth-based telescopes, we could find asteroids of any dangerous size a mile away on our way, which would have plenty of time to color them white or explode them. . But every asteroid we see coming …
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