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Pakistan set to witness brightest Supermoon tonight

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Supermoon

Tonight, residents across Pakistan can enjoy the captivating sight of a Supermoon, which will light up the night sky with remarkable brilliance. During this celestial event, the Moon will appear around 14 percent brighter and 7 percent larger than usual. Astronomers explain that a Supermoon occurs when the Moon reaches its closest point to Earth, … Read more

Rabi us Sani moon sighted in Pakistan

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  • The first Rabi-us-Sani, 1445 AH was set to begin on Oct 17.
  • Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee convened session in Islamabad.
  • The zonal committee meetings held simultaneously across Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee , Maulana Syed Muhammad Abdul Khabir Azad announced that the moon for Rabi-us-Sani, 1445 AH, had been sighted.

He said the first Rabi-us-Sani, 1445 AH was set to begin on  October 17, 2023.

Under the chairmanship of Maulana Syed Muhammad Abdul Khabir Azad, the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee convened a session here at the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony.

The Central and Zonal Ruet-e-Hilal Committee members from Islamabad included esteemed scholars such as Mufti Zameer Ahmed Sajid, Mufti Muhammad Iqbal Naemi, Mufti Abdus Salam Jalali, Maulana Abu Bakr Siddiqu, Maulana Haroon Rashid Balakoti, Allama Sajjad Hussain Javadi, Allama Mustafa Haider Naqvi, and Pir Syed Muhammad Mumtaz Ahmed Zia Nizami. Also, prominent figures like Pir Syed Umar Farooq Shah, Maulana Abid Israr, and Maulana Pir Bilal Gul Wazir were present.

These meetings were held simultaneously across Pakistan in Lahore, Quetta, Peshawar, Karachi, and other cities, involving members of the Central and Zonal Ruet-e-Hilal Committees and technical experts who reported moon sightings.

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World Record: Meteorite Inserts from the Moon, Mars, and Space

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Watch by Les Ateliers Louis Moinet S.A. with 12 meteorite inserts in GWR. 18-carat rose-gold case, black wristband, oozes luxury. The video with 200k views, and 10k likes, showcasing the unique meteorite-themed. Online users submitted a video of an amazing timepiece with meteorite inserts. This sculpture was added to the Guinness World Records (GWR) list … Read more

Japan’s SLIM lander aims for pinpoint landing on the Moon

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Japan's SLIM lander aims for pinpoint landing on the Moon

Japan launched a lunar lander called SLIM for the moon mission. The SLIM lander is designed to land within 100 meters. The launch of the SLIM lander is a hopeful turning point. Japan has embarked on a historic mission to achieve its first successful Moon landing, with the goal of precisely placing its compact lunar … Read more

Russian astronauts searching for water ice on moon

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Russian astronauts water ice  moon

Russia has successfully launched its inaugural moon-landing spacecraft, propelling it skyward with a purposeful objective after a hiatus of 47 years. The mission’s primary goal is to achieve a gentle and precise soft landing on the lunar south pole, a region renowned for its potential reservoirs of valuable water ice. This lunar expedition, marking Russia’s … Read more

NASA’s Breathtaking Capture: Saturn and its Moon in a Stunning Image

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NASA's Breathtaking Capture: Saturn and its Moon in a Stunning Image
  • Image shows rings of Saturn at an angle, a yellow surface, and moon Mimas as a small dot.
  • Description provided in the Instagram caption.
  • Image quickly goes viral, garnering over five lakh likes and many comments.

NASA regularly presents awe-inspiring space films and images that captivate audiences while also educating them about the latest space discoveries. Recently, NASA unveiled a breathtaking image of Saturn and one of its moons, leaving many in awe.

The viral picture showcases a segment of Saturn, its iconic rings, and a distant moon, all captured by the Cassini spacecraft from a remarkable distance of approximately 576,000 miles (927,000 km). The image was taken during Cassini’s exploration of Saturn’s atmosphere, magnetosphere, moons, and rings.

Accompanying the image on NASA’s Instagram was a descriptive caption: “The rings of Saturn are beautifully angled, forming a slender line across the planet’s yellow surface, extending toward the vastness of space in the upper right. Just below the ring, the moon Mimas appears as a tiny dot near the planet.”

This captivating photograph was shared only a few hours ago, and it has already garnered over five hundred thousand likes on social media, with many users leaving comments expressing their admiration.

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Stunning Image of Saturn and its Moon by NASA

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Stunning Image of Saturn

Image shows rings of Saturn at an angle, a yellow surface, and moon Mimas as a small dot. Description provided in the Instagram caption. Image quickly goes viral, garnering over five lakh likes and many comments. Nasa frequently provides breathtaking space films and images that captivate viewers. Not only that, but with each image, they … Read more

Shaban moon sighted in Pakistan

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Shaban moon
  • The first Shaban will take place on February 22.
  • The moon of Shaban was sighted Islamabad and Karachi.
  • Shab- e -Barat will be on March 8, 2023.

KARACHI: Chairman Ruet-i-Hilal Committee has announced that the Shaban-ul-Moazzam moon has been sighted in the country.

The Ruet-i-Hilal Committee announced that the first Shaban will take place on February 22, Wednesday. The central moon sighting committee confirmed collecting evidence and witnesses for the crescent.

The moon of Shaban was sighted in other areas including Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar.

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Moon magnetic anomalies, study explains

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Moon has always piqued the interest of astronomers and stargazers. There are more unknowns concerning Earth’s satellites than are known. Although the Moon is small and frozen, its dusty surface is covered in an unusual pattern of magnetic fingerprints. Scientists have developed a number of increasingly sophisticated ideas to explain the routes of extremely magnetic material discovered in various sections of the lunar surface’s crust throughout the years.

A new study has allowed scientists to better analyse the nature of an abnormally high magnetic field that does not fit up with other Moon features. It was headed by geoscientist Zhuang Guo of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Geochemistry and published in Nature Communications.

Researchers investigated lunar soil returned to Earth in December 2020 by China’s Chang’E 5 mission and detected magnetite particles, a mineral that is rarely found in other samples of lunar dirt. Magnetite, a strongly magnetic iron mineral, was discovered in sub-microscopic spherical iron-sulfide grains that resemble molten drops. Further thermodynamic modelling demonstrated that the magnetite in these granules is the result of severe impacts on the lunar surface.

According to the report, “Lunar magnetic anomalies have been a mystery since the Apollo era.” “Therefore, an in-depth understanding of the formation mechanism and distribution characteristics of magnetite on the Moon could provide a new perspective to explain the genesis of magnetic anomalies in the lunar crust,” it continues.

Magnetite is important to planetary scientists because it can be used to follow the evolution of magnetic fields and hunt for potential evidence of life, two of the most important topics of study for any planet or moon, according to Science Alert. In light of their findings, the scientists anticipate that magnetite may be widely distributed in the finest lunar soil.

According to the findings, the mineral is more widespread on the lunar surface, which modifies our understanding of how the Moon has altered through time. The team believes that these minerals, together with the Moon’s current magnetism, can help explain how big object collisions formed a lunar magnetic field.

According to the researchers, “These formation conditions result in a matching relationship between the magnetic anomaly distribution in the lunar crust and the distal ejecta of large impacts.”

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Moon shows impacts of dinosaur-killing asteroid; study

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Moon shows impacts of dinosaur-killing asteroid
  • Dinosaurs may have been wiped out by meteorites that hit Earth billions of years ago.
  • China’s Change 5 probe has brought samples from the moon to Earth.
  • Analysis shows important events that affected the earth were part of other events happening in space.

Surprising information about the past of our solar system has been revealed by China’s Change 5, which brought samples from the moon to Earth. Science Advances has reported on one such discovery.

The dinosaurs may have been killed by the meteorites that struck our planet and the moon thousands of years ago, according to evidence discovered by scientists.

The lunar soil analysis demonstrated that important events that affected the earth were part of other events happening in space, say experts from Curtin University.

The team scrutinized tiny glass beads from two billion years ago to reach the conclusion.

Scientists said that those beads must have been created by the heat and pressure of meteorites. The silicate fragments might have developed as a result of volcanic eruptions.

Researchers employed numerous microscopic analytical techniques and geological surveys.

They discovered that some spherules, or lunar beads, were from the same era as the crater events that wiped out the dinosaurs.

 

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Rabi-ul-Awal moon not sighted, Eid Milad-un-Nabi to be celebrated on Oct 9

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Rabi-ul-Awwal moon not sighted in Pakistan, Eid Milad un Nabi on September 17

ISLAMABAD: The crescent for the month of Rabi-ul-Awal was not sighted on Monday and therefore, Eid Miladun Nabi (PBUH) will be celebrated on Sunday, October 9. The Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee held a meeting chaired by Chairman Maulana Abdul Khabir Azad in Islamabad. The committee did not receive any credible testimonies for the sighting of the … Read more

NASA: It’s a priority to investigate domes on the moon

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NASA plans to undertake a ‘priority’ trip to the moon to investigate mysterious domes. A rover from NASA will visit the Gruithuisen Domes. These domes are thought to have been created by a silica-rich sticky magma with a composition comparable to granite. NASA plans to undertake a ‘priority’ trip to the moon to investigate mysterious … Read more

Joe Biden wants a Japanese astronaut to walk on the Moon

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Japanese astronaut

President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reaffirmed their commitment to sending a Japanese astronaut to the planned lunar space station, as well as the potential of a Japanese astronaut walking on the Moon on future Artemis missions. On Monday, Biden and Kishida met in Tokyo to resume negotiations over an Implementing Agreement … Read more

Scientists succeeded in Growing “Plants on Moon”

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Scientists

For the first time, scientists have successfully grown plants in lunar soil. Scientists tested the hard lunar dirt obtained by NASA’s Apollo astronauts to see if anything would sprout on it. The findings astounded the researchers, who discovered that “plants actually grow in lunar stuff.” According to The Associated Press, Robert Ferl of the University … Read more

NASA’s Moon rocket returns to workshop after test failure

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NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will return to its assembly building for repairs next week, pushing back the unmanned test flight to the Moon until later this summer, officials said Monday. Since April 1, NASA has been trying to perform a critical “wet dress rehearsal” test, which involves loading liquid propellant. While the procedure is … Read more

Chinese web users blast Musk over space station near-misses

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BEIJING: Chinese web users slammed billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday after Beijing said its space station took evasive action to avoid hitting two of his SpaceX satellites, dealing a blow to the tycoon’s reputation in a country that has embraced his Tesla electric cars. China’s Tiangong space station was forced to take “preventive collision avoidance control” … Read more

China’s probe found two billion years old volcanic rocks on Moon: research

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SYDNEY: The basaltic volcanic rocks, collected as part of China’s Chang’e-5 probe from the Moon, were about 2 billion years old, marking the youngest volcanic rocks identified on the Moon so far, according to an international research published in the journal Science on Friday. Professor Alexander Nemchin from Space Science and Technology Center of Australia’s … Read more

Moon To Align Directly Above The Holy Kaaba On Wednesday

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Moon To Align Directly Above The Holy Kaaba On Wednesday

The city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia will witness an astronomical phenomenon of the moon which will be appeared perpendicular to the Kaaba. The astronomical society in Jeddah stated that the moon will appear perpendicular to the Kaaba on the evening of Shaaban 11, 1442 at 09:10 pm Makkah time, and it can be seen … Read more

Photos: Moon Aligns Directly Above The Holy Kaaba

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Moon Holy Kaaba

A mesmerizing view was witnessed at the Holy Kaaba last night. The full moon appeared just above the Holy Kaaba last night, which was the first full moon aligned above the Kaaba this year. A few days ago, a Saudi newspaper reported that this would be the first time on January 28, 2021, that the … Read more

This man gifted a plot of land on the moon to his wife

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This man gifted a plot of land on the moon to his wife

Many men promise their soul mate to gift moon and stars. However, this man has actually gifted a piece of land of moon to his wife. A man from Ajmer Dharmendra Anija has gifted three acres of land on the celestial body to his wife Sapna Anija on their wedding anniversary. Dharmendra told an international … Read more

NASA selects four companies for moon material collection

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected the winning candidates that they have decided to tap to collect lunar resources for eventual Earth return.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected the winning candidates that they have decided to tap to collect lunar resources for eventual Earth return. The four companies all have rides booked on future commercial lunar lander missions, and the agency is using this as a demonstration of what kinds of efficiencies it can realize by … Read more

Rare NASA photos up for auction including photo taken by Neil Armstrong

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Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong on the moon next to an American flag. Like a dog is sitting in a space capsule, shortly before becoming the first animal to orbit the Earth. Buzz Aldrin taking a selfie, our planet a blue curve behind him, in the first-ever self-portrait shaped in space. These are just three of the 2,400 rare NASA … Read more

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