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Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof. YAN Yihua and his research team from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) recently released detailed results of observations by the new generation solar radio telescope-Mingantu Spectral Radio Heliograph (MUSER)-from 2014 to 2019. The study was published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences on March 29. It may help us better understand the basic nature of solar eruptions. Solar radio bursts are associated wit...

Eid likely to be on May 14 Top Story April 26, 2021 KARACHI: The holy month of Ramazan is likely to be of 30 days in Pakistan this year, while Eidul Fitr is likely to be on Friday, May 14. According to Professor Javed Iqbal, Head of the Institute of Space Sciences and Technology, Karachi University, the new moon of Shawwal 1442 AH will be born on the night between May 11 and 12 at about 12:01pm. The sun will set and the age of the moon will be 19 hours and 31 minutes. The time between sunset ...

Dubai: Eid Al Fitr is expected to fall on May 13 this year, offering residents in the UAE with a much-needed five-day weekend. The Islamic calendar, unlike the Gregorian one, changes on a yearly basis as it requires an authorized person or committee to make an actual sighting of the crescent moon to determine the start of each month. Atmospheric conditions can also obstruct the sighting of the crescent moon, leading the upcoming month to be delayed by an extra day, which will most likely be the...

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. After a year’s hiatus because of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pacific Arts Movement’s Spring Showcase of films celebrating Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander identity is back. The festival, which begins tomorrow and runs through May 2, returns at a time when, says Pacific Arts Movement Artistic Director Brian Hu, “More now than in a generation eyes are on ...

No ‘Star Wars’ spoiler alert should be needed to remind everyone that Tatooine is the desert planet home of Anakin and Luke Skywalker, and it’s a planet that manages to sustain life (albeit barely) while orbiting a binary star system too close for comfort. That may be true for five other binary star systems where... Read more »

Researchers Identify Five Double Star Systems Potentially Suitable For Life Source: FRONTIERS Dynamically informed habitable zones for the Kepler-16, Kepler-34, and Kepler-35 systems. Plots in the left column show the different types of habitable zones without the presence of the known giant planets. The right column includes the influence of the known giant planets. Red colored regions correspond to uninhabitable areas, blue, green, yellow, and purple colors denote the PHZ, the...

Perhaps gigantic puffy exoplanets arent as hostile to life as previously thought Katyanna Quach Fri 16 Apr 2021 // 06:04 UTC Share Copy Astronomers believe five binary-star systems identified by NASA’s now-defunct Kepler Space Telescope could have the right properties to support extraterrestrial life, according to new calculations. "Life is far most likely to evolve on planets located within their systems habitable zone, just like Earth,” said Nikolaos Georgakarakos,...

Credit: UNSW Sydney The search for life on other planets has received a major boost after scientists revealed the spectral signatures of almost 1000 atmospheric molecules that may be involved in the production or consumption of phosphine, a study led by UNSW Sydney revealed. Scientists have long conjectured that phosphine - a chemical compound made of one phosphorous atom surrounded by three hydrogen atoms (PH3) - may indicate evidence of life if found in the atmospheres of small rocky planets ...

Saudi Arabia has also announced Tuesday marks the first day of Ramadan. Ramadan lasts for one complete moon cycle, which is usually 29 or 30 days. The moon sighting determines the duration. Eid Al Fitr is the annual three-day celebration after the last day of Ramadan and it is considered a public holiday period. The government will announce the exact holiday dates nearer the time. Ebrahim Al Jarwan, member of the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences and head of Sharjah Planetarium said e...

    Recent research has revealed that Venus might have looked like Earth for three billion years, with vast oceans that could have been friendly to life leading to recent speculation that it may have been the first life-bearing planet. A conjecture spurred by the announcement in September of 2020 by an international group of researchers reported in the journal Nature Astronomy, that there may be a whiff of life in the famously inhospitable planet’s atmosphere in the form of traces of phosph...