Huaynaputina Volcano
Huaynaputina (/waɪnəpʊˈtiːnə/ WY-nə-puu-TEE-nə; Spanish: wajnapuˈtina) is a small volcano situated 26 kilometers south of Ubinas volcano in southern Peru. It is the result of the…
Geography
Madidi National Park, Bolivia
Madidi (Spanish pronunciation: maˈðiði) is a national park in Bolivia’s northeastern region, along the Amazon River’s upper reaches. The park occupies a total area of…
Kurile Lake, Kamchatka, Russia
Kurile Lake (Russian: Кури́льское о́зеро, romanized: Kuríl’skoye Ózero) is a crater lake located in the territory of the South Kamchatka Sanctuary, Russia, on the south…
Evidence For Planet Nine May Rely On Selection Bias
Challenging the premise of a larger “Planet Nine” claim, a team of scientists has claimed that it created using unrepresentative data. However, those who argue for…
Algae Could Be Grown On Mars Sustain Human Life
The protagonist Mark Watney rightly said in Martian language that our ambitions to establish a human base on the Red Planet would depend entirely on our…
Dying Stars Caught Snacking On The Vaporized Crusts Of Earth-Like Planets They Destroyed
Astronomers have identified the vapor remnants of Earth-like planetary crusts in the atmosphere of four nearby white dwarfs, the final stage of evolution for stars…
Peculiar Congregation Of Black Holes Found Lurking At The Center Of A Stellar Cluster
Black holes come in three shapes: the size of a star, something that can be formed by a supernova to go to a star; Billions…
A Curious Galaxy That Is Very Young But Looks Very Old Is Puzzling Astronomers
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that challenges our theory of how galaxies formed and evolved. The light from BLSS 073.1 comes to us just 1.2…
Kuril Islands, North-western Pacific Ocean
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (/ˈkʊərɪl, ˈkjʊərɪl, kjʊˈriːl/; Russian: Кури́льские острова́, tr. Kurilskiye ostrova, IPA: kʊˈrʲilʲskʲɪjə ɐstrɐˈva or Russian: островá Тисима, tr. ostrova Tisima),…
Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (/əˈluːʃən/; Russian: Алеутские острова; Aleut: Unangam Tanaa, literally “Land of the Aleuts”, possibly from Chukchi aliat, “island”), a chain of small islands…
Commander Islands, Russia
The Commander Islands, also known as the Komandorski Islands, or the Komandorskie Islands (Russian: Командо́рские острова́, Komandorskiye Ostrova) are known for their large colonies of…
Death Valley, Kamchatka, Russia
The official history of Kamchatka’s Death Valley, Russia, starts several years after the emergence of the reserve. Nobody knew about it for a long time,…
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