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Within each orbit of the Parker Solar Probe around the Sun, the portion within 0.25 AU is the Science Phase, in which the probe is actively and autonomously making observations. Communication with the probe is largely cut off in that phase. [57]: 4 Science phases run for a few days both before and after each perihelion. They lasted 11.6 days ...
The Parker Solar Probe passed within just 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface — seven times closer to the burning ball of gas than any other mission has gotten.
PSR J1748−2446ad is the fastest-spinning pulsar known, at 716 Hz (times per second), [2] or 42,960 revolutions per minute.This pulsar was discovered by Jason W. T. Hessels of McGill University on November 10, 2004, and confirmed on January 8, 2005.
Brian Cox from his Twitter account stated that there would be a second series, Wonders of the Universe, with the same crew and BBC science team. It was first broadcast on 6 March 2011 in the UK. The second series has a similar basis to series one, but features the universe. The new series consisted of four episodes as opposed to the previous five.
The series was created for Discovery Channel by Darlow Smithson Productions and features computer generated imagery of the universe created by Red Vision. The series premiered on 25 April 2010 in the United States and started on 9 May 2010 in the United Kingdom with a modified title, Stephen Hawking's Universe (not to be confused with the 1997 ...
The premiere of the first episode attracted 1.9 million viewers, and was considered a success. [4] The second episode had 1.7 million viewers. [5] James Walton of The Daily Telegraph wrote a positive review of the first episode, saying that it "hadn't done a bad job of trying to explain advanced physics to the science novice," even if it was "extremely difficult stuff."
On October 9, 2013, the Science Channel began airing enhanced episodes of the show under the title Beyond the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. [ 12 ] Season 5 of Through the Wormhole began with a special episode on March 5, 2014, [ 13 ] and the remaining nine episodes began airing on June 4, 2014.
Impossible Engineering is a television series produced for Discovery's Science Channel in the US, [1] UKTV's Yesterday in the UK, [2] RMC Decouverte in France, [3] Societe Radio-Canada's Ici Explora in Canada, [3] SVT in Sweden, [4] Discovery Italy in Italy [5] as well as with other broadcasters around the world. The first episode was released ...