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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently shared an "intriguing" daylight sight of a bright dot in the middle of a desert on Earth. "A bright dot in the Negev desert...so unusual to see human-made lights in day passes!" European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti tweeted while sharing three photos showing a distant white speck against a brown landscape. In the caption, Ms Cristoforetti explained a bit about its origin. "It's a concentrated solar power plant, one of the…

In the Darkverse, criminals use the metaverse to launder money using overpriced virtual real estate and NFTs. Security researchers predict that a kind of darknet structure could emerge there, similar to today’s Internet. The machinations of the cyber gangsters could even take place in protected rooms that can only be reached from a specific physical location and via valid authentication tokens. This would make their underground marketplaces inaccessible to law enforcement agencies. In fact, it could be years before the…

The first-ever picture of a black hole was captured using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in 2019. Located at the centre of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy, the black hole was seen with gas swirling around it and other features that were theoretically predicted by astronomers. While the photo was hailed as historic, it was quite blurry and did not offer intricate details of the black hole. Now, astronomers have remastered the image to reveal the black hole's photon ring that could not be seen earlier.The black hole in the…

A global view of Earth assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite.NASA Specifications in the current proposal provide a starting point for planning, including a color temperature cutoff of 3,000 K in line with Pittsburgh’s dark-sky ordinance, which passed last fall. However, Martinez says that is the maximum, and as they look for consultants, they’ll be taking into account which ones show dark-sky expertise. The city is also considering—budget and infrastructure…

Anne Heche dies at 53, family says ‘we have lost a bright light'(Photo Credit–Instagram) US actress Anne Heche is dead but will remain on life support to allow for a possible organ donation, her representative has said. The 53-year-old had been in a coma for a week after crashing her car into a house in Los Angeles, reports the BBC. “Today we lost a bright light, a kind and most joyful soul,” Anne Heche’s family said in a statement on Friday. Heche appeared in films including ‘Volcano’, ‘Donnie Brasco’…

Nothing initially advertised the Phone (1) as being capable of reaching a maximum peak brightness of 1,200 nits, only in certain HDR video scenarios. We don't test for those, so all we got for our review of the phone was 663 nits in Auto brightness mode, with 466 nits in manual brightness mode. This didn't seem out of the ordinary, as all of the currently advertised 1,200+ nit peak brightness rates, for all smartphones, are not achievable in general day to day use, only in some HDR content. But you would expect a phone…

Following quickly on from “Good Life” and “Searchin”, fraternal Essex trio Rayowa are back with “Remember”, their third single in as many months.A mix of R&B, pop, funk and disco that’s won them the support of Nile Rodgers, it’s bright and airy music purpose-built for warm summer nights and, judging by their new video, taking a road trip through the Spanish countryside in a vintage Mustang.As is becoming increasingly, and understandably, popular, escapism is the central theme here. Sharing some of their thoughts on…

Once a year, from mid-July to late August, Earth passes through a cosmic junk heap that pelts our planet with thousands of tiny space rocks no wider than a grain of sand. We call this annual event the Perseid meteor shower – or simply the Perseids.  This year, the Perseids peak in the dark hours between 11 August and 12. Unfortunately, the fact that there's a bright full moon around the same time will dampen the show.You may be able to see 10-20 meteors per hour during the peak, according to NASA – down from the 50 to 60…

The James Webb Space Telescope has only been watching the sky for a few weeks, and it has already delivered a startling finding: tens, hundreds, maybe even 1000 times more bright galaxies in the early universe than astronomers anticipated. “No one was expecting anything like this,” says Michael Boylan-Kolchin of the University of Texas, Austin. “Galaxies are exploding out of the woodwork,” says Rachel Somerville of the Flatiron Institute. Galaxy formation models may now need a…

The rising popularity of electric vehicles in recent times has brought all the attention of the world towards them. Even while they are in motion, they catch a lot of glances and eyeballs, due to their extreme silent powertrains making no sound. However, apart from EV badges on the exterior, there is nothing much which differentiates them from their petrol-powered counterparts, for example in the case of the Tata Nexon EV. However, a Tata Nexon EV owner tried to make his SUV look stand apart from the crowd by giving it…