Mysterious News Briefly January 14, 2021
A drawing of a pig found on a wall in a remote cavern system located on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi dates back 45,500 years, making it the world’s oldest depiction of an animal. Lacking a refrigerator to hang it on, did the artist’s proud mama draw a glacier around it?
New data on dark space sent back by the New Horizons space probe – with its camera pointed at deep space without cosmic light to distort its view shows that the total number of galaxies in the universe is only in the hundreds of billions, not 2 trillion galaxies as previously thought. Somewhere in the afterlife, Carl Sagan is saying, “Told you so.”
Tiny microfiber strands, washed into the ocean from laundering our clothes or from industrial wastewater, are polluting one of the most remote regions on Earth.