Pluto & Charon together form one planet As discussed in this article, Pluto & Charon are in fact one planetary system! They together behave like one planet around which other moons Styx, Nix, Hydra & Kerberos revolve. The center of mass of this planetary system lies in the space between …
Read More »Star Trip #3: Rebirth of a star; resurgence of the information!
For Stars, there is life after death. For Cosmos, there is a constant drift towards ‘Information Complexity’. The soul of the star hangs around the white dwarf remnant of the star in the form of a gas cloud. This would eventually become a stellar nursery which would produce a new …
Read More »Are you a victim of Artificial Selection?
If we just step back and look at the repercussions of our decisions throughout time and space, we will see that there is much more at work than we can actually perceive. One of the processes whose repercussions we can see around us is the process of artificial selection, which …
Read More »The Dance of Gravity: Pluto and Charon
The recent news as well as the images from NASA’s New Horizons mission has shown us a lot of aspects of Pluto and its “family” which were previously obscured from reality. These include beautiful information related to the terrain and topography of Pluto’s surface, its predicted internal seismological activity and …
Read More »Star Trip #2: We are no different from the Stars!
Are planets & stars different? No, they start as one unit. As it comes out of the stellar nursery, a star is at this stage a huge ball of dust & gas, called a protostar. The core of this protostar is very dense & gravitationally collapses the outer part of …
Read More »In-Extremis: Microbes
Life came into existence one billion years after Earth’s formation when the crust cooled enough and gases were formed. Hydrothermal vents acted as a cradle for Earth’s life. And it is a well-accepted theory that single-celled ‘archaea’ were the very first organisms on Earth. Let me introduce first the term …
Read More »Dark Matter and the Human Psyche: A Song of Fire and Ice
Dark matter and dark energy are some of the most mind-boggling phenomena in our universe. The moment we started considering these two unseen forces we started to understand how little we truly know about the universe that we are a part of. These two forces are said to form a …
Read More »Star Trip #1: Birth to Youth
Where are stars born? Stars are born in Stellar Nurseries which are basically huge clouds of gas & dust. Light cannot penetrate the stellar nurseries & we do not know what exactly happens there. But there is some information that is being given to the stars here before they are …
Read More »NASA confirms that we can eat the sun
The title may have taken you off guard, but like all the other things in life you have to read between the lines and decipher the real meaning that is evident here. To start, let us focus our attention on a fairly ancient practice known as Sun-gazing, which has been …
Read More »An intelligent virtual robot inside of your phone
Want an intelligent app that would just know what you want to do with your phone right now? Read on. You send an email to your client about a trip to London and a robot inside your phone suggests you appropriate flights, car rentals & hotel bookings gathering & collating all …
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