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Rocket expected to crash into moon tied to China, not SpaceX
A rocket expected to crash into the far side of the moon next month was incorrectly linked to a 2015 mission by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and is actually Chinese in origin, officials confirmed this week. Astronomy experts initially believed the object, referred to as WE0913A, that will impact the moon on March 4 was the…Read…
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Planet Found in the Habitable Zone of a White Dwarf
Most stars will end their lives as white dwarfs. White dwarfs are the remnant cores of once-luminous stars like our Sun, but they’ve left their lives of fusion behind and no longer generate heat. They’re destined to glow with only their residual energy for billions of years before they eventually fade to black. Could life…
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Ocasio-Cortez laments ‘sh– show’ of Congress
(The Hill) – After three years on Capitol Hill, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has formulated a gloomy assessment of Congress and its inner workings, characterizing Washington’s legislative process as “a sh–show” of missed opportunities and badly laid plans. In a long and wide-ranging interview with The New Yorker’s David Remnick, Ocasio-Cortez — the most prominent voice of the far-left…
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Leo Terrell on ‘woke’ school board facing recall in San Francisco: The kids have been damaged
As the San Francisco school board is facing recall, Fox News contributor and former schoolteacher Leo Terrell told “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday that “the damage has been done” to kids by politicians who play politics “at the expense” of school children.Read original article here.Written by: Fox News Staff
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50 Black actors who made entertainment history
Whether it’s a Hollywood film, prime-time television, Broadway, or another form of talent, Black people in the entertainment industry have worked to break barriers. According to the 2018 Hollywood Diversity Report, Black people made up 12.5% of Hollywood roles—a percentage close to a proportionate representation in the U.S. Yet, many Black characters reinforce stereotypes and…
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The far-right playbook to take down Texas public schools is ‘sheer destructive chaos,’ pastors claim
‘This is the new moral swamp of Texas politics,’ said Fort Worth-based Pastors For Texas Children. ‘Public education should not be a divisive issue.’Read original article here.
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FTX.US boss predicts ethereum and altcoins will eat away at bitcoin’s market dominance, thanks to their proof-of-stake system
“Over time, we’re just going to see less and less of the total market share come from just one asset, from bitcoin alone,” FTX.US’ president Brett Harrison said.Read original article here.
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Want to use the James Webb Space Telescope? Here’s how scientists book time with the giant observatory.
The hottest commodity in astronomy these days is time — specifically, time using NASA’s brand-new, ultra-powerful observatory.Read original article here.
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Scientists discover how galaxies can exist without dark matter
In a new Nature Astronomy study, an international team led by astrophysicists from the University of California, Irvine and Pomona College report how, when tiny galaxies collide with bigger ones, the bigger galaxies can strip the smaller galaxies of their dark matter—matter that we can’t see directly, but which astrophysicists think must exist because, without…
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Hubble’s Law
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You’ll expand your horizons with today’s topic: Hubble’s Law! In 1929 astronomer Edwin Hubble made a remarkable measurement. Earlier in that decade, he had discovered that the Andromeda Nebula was not a nebula at all, but an entirely different galaxy completely separated…