Have you ever tried looking at the stars but can’t happen to spot any? There are definitely stars in the sky but the reason you can’t see them is light pollution. Light pollution, or artificial light at night, is the reason behind you not being able to see the stars. The excessive use of artificial light disturbs the natural pattern of wildlife and results in increased production of carbon dioxide in the environment, interferes with the human sleep pattern, and lastly, obscures the stars in the sky. What Are Dark Sky Reserves? With this problem at hand, scientists created Dark Sky Reserves that are either public or private land that is free of any artificial light....
Just a few days into its scientific operations, NASA's James Webb Space Observatory has already piqued scientists' interest. They did that in a region of early galaxies. Those that had been beyond the reach of any other telescope. The things we perceive are entirely novel. "Webb is telling us that there's a rich cosmos beyond what we thought," said Tommaso Treu, principal investigator on one of the Webb initiatives from the University of California, Los Angeles. Yet again, the cosmos has taken us by surprise. In many respects, these early galaxies are exceptional. What Is Taking Place? There are now two studies in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, led by researchers Marco Castellano of the National Institute...
On April 12, 1961, the world watched on in amazement as the USSR launched Yuri Gagarin into space aboard the Vostok 1. He had only been informed of his historic mission some three days before the launch, which was quite dramatic and eventful, to say the least. However, Yuri returned safely to the USSR as a national hero but the space war between the U.S. and the USSR would not end there as both sides would compete to develop aerospace capabilities, artificial satellites, human spaceflights, and human space probes. Many believe this race ended in a victory for the U.S. when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969. The Space race also came to an...