This year, the competition received 49,000 entries from photographers from all over the world. The population of the animal is threatened by hunters, poachers and loggers, which has also affected their prey mostly deer and wild boar. Sergey knew the chances of getting the tiger on his lens was not an easy task. It took Gorshkov more than 11 months to capture the image using hidden cameras in Rus... [Full Article...]
He was born in Milwaukee, but considers Cedar Falls, Iowa, his hometown. The SpaceX Crew-3 mission will be launched to the ISS likely in September 2021 for a six-month stay in outer space. Williams has spent 322 days in space on two missions and ranks second on the all-time USA endurance list for females. Their mission will slightly overlap with Crew-2, which is expected to launch in spring 20... [Full Article...]
What's more unusual is to spy a pairing up of the two slowest moving naked eye outer planets, Jupiter and Saturn . But that year, the conjunction was too close to the sun to view it. How can we see it? Saturn is the sixth planet out, the farthest planet we can easily see with the naked eye and makes an orbit of the Sun every 30 years of so. [Full Article...]
Prince Harry , 36, is committed to advancing conservation efforts around the world - something close to the hearts of dad Prince Charles and brother Prince William as well. Harry's appearance came shortly after Meghan announced the family had suffered pregnancy loss. According to The Sun , The Crown - which is confirmed for two more seasons - could be extended to cover the adult lives of Pr... [Full Article...]
This month it dropped off a capsule containing the samples, which created a fireball as it entered the Earth's atmosphere, and landed in the Australian desert before being transported to Japan. An initial inspection at a quick check facility in Australia detected unidentified gases from the capsule, a sign they are related to solar wind or samples from Ryugu. [Full Article...]
The orbiter-returner combination entered the moon-Earth transfer orbit on Sunday. The other country to bring back moon rocks is the US, which collected several lunar samples during the Apollo program before it ended in 1972. China's space program has a series of ambitious missions underway, including a probe en route to Mars. The Chang'e 5 lunar mission is China's first-ever sample return miss... [Full Article...]
The United States and its partners might be using the Artemis space program as a shield to cover military projects on the Moon, Sergey Saveliev, the deputy director general for worldwide cooperation at Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, said on Monday. [Full Article...]
It means that in 2020 fossil Carbon dioxide emissions are predicted to be approximately 34 GtCO2, 7% lower than in 2019. Chris Field, director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, thinks emissions will increase after the pandemic, but said "I am optimistic that we have, as a society learned some lessons that may help decrease emissions in the future". [Full Article...]