Earth May Have Had Two Moons

Two Moons

Most of us will say earth had one moon as we see today. But according to a new hypothesis that is wrong. The journal Nature suggests the existence of more than one moon. This new idea has tried to solve a mysterious puzzle of the difference in the near and far sides of moon. So, when and how did Mother Earth lose its companion ?

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Black Hole holds Universe's Biggest Water Supply

An Active Galactic Nucleus

Two pairs of astronomers have been successful in discovering in the largest and farthest water reservoir in the world until now. 12 billion light years away from the earth this reservoir holds upto 140 trillion times more water  than all the oceans of the earth constitute.

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Unraveling the mystery of Magnetars

Artist's Concept of a Magnetar

A recently discovered stellar body with an extremely powerful magnetic field and highly dense mass with great rotational speeds, emitting high energy electromagnetic radiations in the form of X-rays and gamma rays. Yep, its a Magnetar !

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THE JOURNEY THAT IS STILL GOING ON

When you travel for some hours you feel much tired. Even our machines get heated and performance quality gets degraded if we make it run for longer time. Now imagine of a machine that is doing it’s work for 30 years in the same perfect and correct condition and still has not stopped. Yes my friends, this machine is the most distant unmanned man-made spacecraft from earth, The Voyager 1. It Started its journey in Sept. 5, 1977 and now is the most distant spacecraft from earth.

That small pale blue dot is us, yes its the Earth as viewed from Voyager 1, 4 billion miles away

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LOOKING BACK AT PAST

History was created on 14^th February when the first ever close-up flyby of its kind was made. This history was made the STARDUST-NExt probe that flew within 112 miles(181 kilometers) of the comet Temple 1 at 11:39 p.m. EST or 4:39 GMT(15^th February 2011). It snapped photos and made measurements all at the same time.

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