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How can you count the spots on a ladybug in California from New York? You make a virtual Earth-sized telescope! The Event Horizon Telescope, or E H T, is a network of sychronized radio dishes scattered around the Earth. The images produced should be similar to using a planet-sized telescope, but easier to build!
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We may soon see a black hole for the first time! Last April, the Event Horizon Telescope was aimed at Sagittarius A* in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy where astrophysicists believe a supermassive black hole is located. Hopefully, data analysis will now provide an image of a black hole!
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Today is National Marzipan Day. Marzipan is a confection made from ground almonds, sugar and honey. It is often formed into shapes and painted with food coloring to look like tiny fruits or animals. Special cakes in many countries use marzipan as an icing or filling. It’s also great covered in chocolate!
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Biologist Nan Hauser was observing some humpback whales while snorkeling in the Cook Islands. One of the whales began pushing her with its nose, tucking her under its fins, and even lifting her out of the water on its head. She realized it was protecting her from a nearby tiger shark!
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Australian 16 year-old Jade Hameister just became the youngest person to ski to the South Pole! Her feat also finished the Polar Hat Trick and set multiple records. She had completed the Greenland Crossing and trekked to the North Pole at age 14. Jade also became the first woman to ski a new uncharted route!
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The Kepler Space Telescope is dedicated to finding new planets, and it’s turned up some interesting patterns. Looking at 909 planets orbiting 355 stars, researchers concluded that the planets in most solar systems are similar in size and have more evenly spaced orbits. Our planets don’t follow either pattern. We just do our own thing!
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Alligators brumate, which is like hibernation. Normally they spend cold days at the bottom of a swamp, coming up once a day for air. The recent unusually cold weather was tough on alligators in North Carolina. They left their snouts sticking out while the swamp froze around them! Happily, they’re now thawed out.
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You might want to wear galoshes and old clothes today if it’s raining where you live. Then warn your friends so you don’t make everyone mad. It’s National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day! I guess you’re out of luck if all your puddles are frozen.
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Controlled burns are fires set for farming or forest management purposes, but there’s no such thing in Australia. That’s because firehawk raptors pick up burning sticks and spread the fire to other areas! For thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians have witnessed the fire-wielding birds of prey hunt animals trying to escape the fires.
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Researchers have some new conclusions about the Hypatia stone, a pebble-sized meteorite found in Egypt. They knew the fragment it did not come from Earth or any known comets or meteorites in our solar system. Now they believe the materials in the Hypatia stone predate the Sun!
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