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…
Geography
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,…
Pharaoh’s Island
Pharaoh’s Island (Arabic: جزيرة فرعون Jazīrat Fir‘aun) is the name of an islet north of the Gulf of Aqaba on the eastern coast of Egypt’s…
Difference between Flora and Fauna
The term ‘flora’ is defined as all the naturally occurring native plants of a particular region. Fauna is all the animal life present in a…
Breccia – a rock composed of broken fragments of minerals
Breccia is a term most often used for clastic sedimentary rocks that are composed of large angular fragments. It is a rock composed of broken…
Menorca Island, Spain
Menorca (Catalan: məˈnɔɾkə, Spanish: meˈnoɾka) or Minorca (English: /mɪˈnɔːrkə/ min-OR-kə; from Latin: Insula Minor, lit. ‘smaller island’, later Minorica), an island of the Balearic Islands…
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