Changzheng-2F, the Chinese launch vehicle, with manned spacecraft Shenzhou-13 was launched to the Tiangong space station.
There are three taikonauts on board.
The launch took place from the Jiuquan cosmodrome in Gansu province in northwestern China.
The Shenzhou 13 crew will spend at least 180 days at the station.
The crew included Zhai Zhigang, female taikonaut Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu.
Jupiter-Mass Exoplanet Found Orbiting White Dwarf
Using a technique called gravitational microlensing, which occurs when a star close to Earth momentarily aligns with a more distant star, astronomers discovered a giant exoplanet in a Jupiter-like orbit around a white dwarf star. Located at approximately 2,000 parsecs (6,523 light-years) towards the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, this system is likely to represent an analogue to the end stages of the Sun and Jupiter in our own Solar System.
Oct 16, 2021
India 6th most Affected Country by Ransomware, Says Google
A Google report that analysed more than 80 million ransomware samples submitted over the last year and a half revealed that India is at the sixth place in the list of 140 countries most affected by ransomware.
Israel was far and away an outlier, with the highest number of submissions and nearly a 600 per cent increase in the number of submissions compared to its baseline.
It was followed by South Korea, Vietnam, China, Singapore, India, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Iran, and the UK as the most affected top 10 territories, based on the number of submissions to VirusTotal.
Launched in June 2004, VirusTotal was acquired by Google in September 2012. The company's ownership switched in January 2018 to Chronicle Security, a cybersecurity company which is part of Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Oct 15, 2021
William Shatner Becomes World's Oldest Space Traveler
Actor William Shatner soared aboard a Blue Origin rocket ship on a suborbital trip and landed in the Texas desert to become at age 90 the oldest person ever in space as U.S. billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos's company carried out its second tourist flight.
Shatner was one of four passengers to journey to the edge of space aboard the white fully autonomous 60-foot-tall (18.3 meters-tall) New Shepard spacecraft.
Oct 14, 2021
Germany Launches World's First Self-Driving Train
German rail operator, Deutsche Bahn and industrial group, Siemens launched the first automated & driverless train of the world.
The self-driving train was launched in the city of Hamburg, Germany.
This train is more punctual and energy efficient as compared to traditional trains.
The country has planned to add four such trains to the S-Bahn rapid urban rail network of northern city.
These trains will start carrying passengers from December on the existing rail infrastructure.
Other cities such as Paris have driverless metros on the other hand, airports often have automated monorail trains plying terminals. However, these trains run on exclusive single tracks while the Hamburg train will share tracks with other regular trains.
Oct 13, 2021
The Fastest-spinning White Dwarf ever Seen Rotates Once every 25 Seconds
The sun turns once a month and the Earth once a day, but a white dwarf star 2,000 light-years away spins every 25 seconds, beating the old champ by five seconds. That makes it the fastest-spinning star of any sort ever seen — unless you consider such exotic objects as neutron stars and black holes, some of which spin even faster.
The fast-spinning white dwarf, named LAMOST J0240+1952 and located in the constellation Aries, got in a whirl because of its ongoing affair with a red dwarf star that revolves around it. Just as falling water makes a waterwheel turn, so gas falling from the red companion star made the white dwarf twirl.
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