A commercial Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station early next year chartered by Axiom Space will carry four private astronauts. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The three men are paying $55 million each to fly aboard a SpaceX rocket for an eight-day visit to the International Space Station, organised by Houston-based spaceflight firm […]
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The Geminids meteor shower, believed to be the strongest of the year, is active from December 4-December 20, with December 13 and 14 considered to be the best nights for viewing these meteor showers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Geminids meteor showers are unique because their origin does not lie in a comet,
An asteroid named (153201) 2000 WO107, that is more than 800 metre high and over 500 metre wide – bigger than skyscraper Burj Khalifa – barrelled past earth on November 29 and closest to our planet. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building with a height of 829.8 metre
The Leonid meteor showers are currently making their yearly appearance, and will reach their peak in India on November 17 and 18. In 2020, these showers are active from November 6th to November 30th. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Leonids emerge from the comet Tempel-Tuttle, which requires 33 years to revolve once around
A massive asteroid named ‘Apophis’ expected to pass extremely close or may hit the Earth in 2068 due to a phenomenon called Yarkovsky effect. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Researchers at University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) in the US, have announced the detection of Yarkovsky acceleration on the near-Earth asteroid Apophis. The
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NASA has reported that on April 28, it observed a mix of X-ray and radio signals never observed before in the Milky Way. Significantly, the flare-up it observed included the first fast radio burst (FRB) seen within the galaxy. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Essentially, FRBs are bright bursts of radio waves (radio waves
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NASA’s Hubble Telescope has discovered “16 Psyche,” a rare piece of heavy metal that is one of the largest objects in the Solar System’s main asteroid belt orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Located around 370 million kilometres away from Earth, asteroid 16 Psyche is one of the most massive
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Due to an event referred to as “opposition”, which takes place every two years and two months, Mars will outshine Jupiter, becoming the third brightest object (moon and Venus are first and second, respectively) in the night sky during the month of October. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This year, while Mars’ closest approach
Scientists from NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the Sun has entered a new Solar Cycle. They described it as the Solar Cycle 25. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Since the Sun’s surface is a very active space, electrically charged gases on its surface generate areas of powerful
An international team of astronomers announced the discovery of phosphine gas in the atmosphere of Venus, arousing enthusiasm for the possibility of the presence of life forms on this planet. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A team of scientists have reported traces of phosphine in a concentration of approximately 20 parts per billion, thousands
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