UN tops NASA’s interstellar playlist Before launching into space in 1977, the United States space agency, NASA, asked the UN to provide materials for a playlist to record an album – the “Golden Record” – to be sent to the stars. In fact, the first words on the vinyl record itself are those of the…
NEOs are asteroids or comets that come relatively close to the Sun, to about 50 million kilometres from Earth’s orbit. Some of them, ‘potentially hazardous objects’ (PHOs), come even closer – in interstellar terms – with a minimum distance of less than 7.5 million kilometres. Measuring more than 140 meters across, the PHOs have the…
Cairo: In a tomb in Egypt, such items of Pharaoh’s era have been discovered, which were used for mummification in that era. According to Urdu News, the Antiquities Authority in Egypt has unveiled on Saturday the workshop and ancient tombs discovered in the pharaonic tomb at Saqqara Qaria near the capital Cairo. This special type…
