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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - May 2015

May 2015

Jun 30, 2015

Solar Plane Takes off for Hawaii

The Swiss-made solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, started its second bid at a record-breaking flight across the Pacific Ocean.
According to sources, the solar plane took off from Nagoya Airfield in Japan and is scheduled to land in Hawaii in approximately 120 hours.

Jun 29, 2015

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes

A mission by an unmanned SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket exploded within minutes after launch over the skies of Cape Canaveral.
The rocket, carrying its Dragon cargo spacecraft, supplies and equipment was destined for the International Space Station.
The explosion occurred before the first stage was set to separate.

Jun 28, 2015

India to Launch SAARC Satellite by December 2016

India is continuing its efforts toward space exploration and it will launch the SAARC satellite by December 2016.
The two-tonne satellite will have 12 Ku band transponders, with each dedicated to one country in the region for providing communication, education, telemedicine, disaster monitoring and other need-based services.

Jun 26, 2015

'Lord of the Rings' Spotted in Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered the largest and brightest set of rings from X-ray light echoes ever observed.
These extraordinary rings, produced by an intense flare from a neutron star, provide astronomers a rare chance to determine how far across the Milky Way galaxy the star is from the Earth.
The rings appear as circles around Circinus X-1, a double star system in the plane of our galaxy containing a neutron star, the dense remnant of a massive star pulverised in a supernova explosion.

Jun 25, 2015

Black Hole with Mass of 140 Million Suns

Scientists have found a massive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy has the mass of 140 million suns.
The black hole is in the heart of galaxy NGC 1097, which is 47 million light-years away from Earth. The distance is too far for scientists to determine the mass of the black hole by the movement of the stars around it.
By tracking the movements of two types of molecular gases around the galaxy's centre, researchers were able to figure out the black hole's gravitational pull.

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