Planets, the eight celestial bodies orbiting our sun, are spherical. Exoplanets, the many other celestial bodies orbiting many other suns, are also spherical. At least that’s what scientists thought until the European Space Agency (ESA) got a better look at the “rugby ball shaped” WASP-103b. Discovered in 2014 amid the […]
Day: January 16, 2022
Jaw-dropping satellite imagery captures the explosive volcano eruption near Tonga
The beautiful and terrible majesty of our natural world was on full display Saturday. A massive undersea volcano near the Pacific nation of Tonga erupted with such force that it prompted near-immediate tsunami warnings for Hawaii, Alaska, and the entire West Coast of the United States, all of which are […]
DirecTV will drop Trump’s favored news source, One America News Network
DirecTV subscribers who like their news and opinion as far to the right as it can get will have to look elsewhere soon. The major satellite TV provider will drop One America News Network when its contract expires in April, Bloomberg reported Friday. OANN had been available to DirecTV subscribers […]
Meta is being investigated for alleged Oculus anti-trust violations
Mark Zuckerberg can change his company’s name all he wants, but that won’t stop the government from looking into its business practices. The latest round of government probes into the company now known as Meta actually centers on Oculus, its VR hardware and software subsidiary, per Bloomberg. The FTC along […]