Lurking Cosmic Cloud Found That Is Bigger Than Entire Milky Way
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – In the yawning vacuum of intergalactic space, something large is lurking.
Supermassive Black Holes Could Host Giant, Swirling Gas 'Tsunamis'
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Could gas escaping the gravitational grasp of supermassive black holes be forming "tsunamis" in space?
5,000-Year-Old Plague Bacteria Found in Skull Unearthed in Latvia
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An ancient skull discovered along a river in modern-day Latvia may hold clues to how the bubonic plague wiped out tens of millions of people across Europe in what would become the world's deadliest pandemic.
Scientists Say There's No Life on Venus But Jupiter Has Potential
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – It turns out the clouds of Venus aren't made of the right stuff to support life — so now, scientists are turning to Jupiter instead.
Engineers Design Mask That Detects COVID-19 in Less Than 2 Hours
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – MIT and Harvard University Engineers have designed a novel face mask that can diagnose the wearer with COVID-19 within about 90 minutes.
Comet Strike 13,000 Years Ago Might Have Changed Human Civilization
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Could a devastating comet impact in Earth's distant past have forever changed human civilization?
Discovery of Tiny Bones, Teeth Reveals Multiple Dinosaur Species Lived, Nested in Arctic
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – In the 1950s, researchers made the first unexpected discoveries of dinosaur remains at frigid polar latitudes.
Scientists Find 29 Planets Where Aliens Could Be Watching Us
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Scientists have identified 1,715 star systems where aliens could have discovered Earth by observing our planet’s transit — and within that, 29 planets could be habitable and are uniquely positioned to watch us and pick up on our broadcast transmissions.
James Webb Space Telescope to Use Quasars to Unlock Secrets of Early Universe
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Quasars are very bright, distant and active supermassive black holes that are millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun.
Iran to Manufacture Imaging Satellite with 1-Meter Accuracy: Minister
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi unveiled plans for the production of a homegrown imaging satellite offering one-meter resolution.
Galaxy’s Lack of Dark Matter Surprises Astronomers
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Back in 2018, astronomers used Hubble to observe a relatively nearby galaxy and found it presented a baffling mystery: It appeared to have little or no dark matter.
Hubble Snaps Radiant Galaxy Lit Up by Very Active Black Hole
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Hubble Space Telescope captured a brilliant image of spiral galaxy NGC 3254, which has a particularly luminescent and active core emitting as much energy as the rest of the galaxy combined.
New Fossils Reveal One of Largest Land Mammals Ever Found
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – About 25 million years ago, giant rhinos more than 16 feet tall roamed the Earth. They are considered the largest land mammal that ever lived — but their evolutionary history and dispersal across Asia have left scientists puzzled.
Earth Tipped Over on Its Side 84 Million Years Ago, Righted Itself, New Study Finds
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – If you'd been able to stare at Earth from space during the late Cretaceous, when Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops roamed, it would've looked like the whole planet had tipped over on its side.
Study Points to A Seed Black Hole Produced by A Dark Matter Halo Collapse
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, are black holes with masses that are several million to billion times the mass of our sun.
Largest Rotating Structures in Universe Discovered
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – By mapping the motion of galaxies in huge filaments that connect the cosmic web, astronomers found that the long tendrils of galaxies spin on the scale of hundreds of millions of light years.
Gigantic 'Blinking' Star Presents A Cosmic Mystery
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – For a period of several months, a huge star located more than 25,000 light-years from Earth got increasingly dimmer before eventually returning to its usual brightness. An obstruction of some kind likely caused this strange effect, but astronomers aren’t exactly sure what it is.
Iran Authorizes Emergency Use of Homegrown Vaccine
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The emergency use of an Iranian coronavirus vaccine financed by the Barakat Foundation has been authorized, Health Minister Saeed Namaki said.
