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#KnowledgeBit: Gangkhar Puensum is the world's highest unclimbed mountain, standing at 7,570 meters (24,836 ft) in #Bhutan. It's located in the Eastern Himalayas, near the border with China. The mountain's name translates to "White Peak of the Three Spiritual Brothers" in Dzongkha.
Bhutan, deeply committed to environmental conservation and respect for its sacred mountains, banned climbing above 6,000 m in 1994.This has helped preserve Gangkhar Puensum's natural beauty. -
#KnowledgeBit: Gangkhar Puensum is the world's highest unclimbed mountain, standing at 7,570 meters (24,836 ft) in #Bhutan. It's located in the Eastern Himalayas, near the border with China. The mountain's name translates to "White Peak of the Three Spiritual Brothers" in Dzongkha.
Bhutan, deeply committed to environmental conservation and respect for its sacred mountains, banned climbing above 6,000 m in 1994.This has helped preserve Gangkhar Puensum's natural beauty. -
#KnowledgeBit: Gangkhar Puensum is the world's highest unclimbed mountain, standing at 7,570 meters (24,836 ft) in #Bhutan. It's located in the Eastern Himalayas, near the border with China. The mountain's name translates to "White Peak of the Three Spiritual Brothers" in Dzongkha.
Bhutan, deeply committed to environmental conservation and respect for its sacred mountains, banned climbing above 6,000 m in 1994.This has helped preserve Gangkhar Puensum's natural beauty. -
#KnowledgeBit: Gangkhar Puensum is the world's highest unclimbed mountain, standing at 7,570 meters (24,836 ft) in #Bhutan. It's located in the Eastern Himalayas, near the border with China. The mountain's name translates to "White Peak of the Three Spiritual Brothers" in Dzongkha.
Bhutan, deeply committed to environmental conservation and respect for its sacred mountains, banned climbing above 6,000 m in 1994.This has helped preserve Gangkhar Puensum's natural beauty. -
#KnowledgeBit: Gangkhar Puensum is the world's highest unclimbed mountain, standing at 7,570 meters (24,836 ft) in #Bhutan. It's located in the Eastern Himalayas, near the border with China. The mountain's name translates to "White Peak of the Three Spiritual Brothers" in Dzongkha.
Bhutan, deeply committed to environmental conservation and respect for its sacred mountains, banned climbing above 6,000 m in 1994.This has helped preserve Gangkhar Puensum's natural beauty. -
#KnowledgeBit: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a future NASA infrared space telescope in development and scheduled to launch in September 2026.
It is named after former NASA Chief of Astronomy Nancy Grace Roman.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is an American space probe, launched in 1972 and weighing 260 kilograms (570 pounds), that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter.
Between July 15, 1972, and February 15, 1973, it became the first spacecraft to traverse the #AsteroidBelt.
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#KnowledgeBit: #ClimateChange and #Heatwaves are increasing Incidents of Wet-bulb Temperatures.
The theoretical limit to human survival for more than a few hours in the shade, even with unlimited water, is a wet-bulb temperature of 35°C (95°F) - theoretically equivalent to a heat index of 70°C (160°F), though the heat index does not go that high.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Library of #Alexandria in #Egypt was the most significant center of scholarship in the ancient world.
Founded in the 3rd century BCE under the Ptolemaic dynasty, it aimed to house "all the knowledge of the world".
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#KnowledgeBit: A #Leap #Second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between:
- Precise time (International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured by atomic clocks), and
- Imprecise observed solar time (UT1), which varies due to irregularities and long-term slowdown in the Earth's rotation. -
#KnowledgeBit: #Belphegor's prime is the palindromic prime number 1000000000000066600000000000001, named after the demon Belphegor, due to its superstitious significance containing "666" (the Number of the Beast) and being surrounded by thirteen zeroes on either side.
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#KnowledgeBit: Sometimes mistaken for #Aurora, #STEVE ("Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement") is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that appears as a purple and green light ribbon in the sky, named in late 2016 by aurora watchers from Alberta, Canada.
The #Phenomenon is not rare, but had not been investigated and described scientifically prior to that time.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Carrington Event was the most powerful solar storm ever recorded, occurring in September 1859.
It was named after the British astronomer Richard Carrington, who witnessed and documented the solar flare that triggered the event.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Carrington Event was the most powerful solar storm ever recorded, occurring in September 1859.
It was named after the British astronomer Richard Carrington, who witnessed and documented the solar flare that triggered the event.
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#KnowledgeBit: In November 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was among those who noticed a new bright object in the constellation #Cassiopeia who thought it to be a new Star.
Astronomers now know that Tycho's new star was not new at all. Rather it signaled the death of a star in a supernova. It is now named after Tycho as "The Tycho Supernova".
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Grandfather #Paradox states that if one were to travel back in time and kill their grandfather before their parent's conception, they would cease to exist, thus preventing their own time travel.
It highlights the logical inconsistencies that arise from the possibility of altering the past, creating a paradox where the action both occurs and cannot occur.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Grandfather #Paradox states that if one were to travel back in time and kill their grandfather before their parent's conception, they would cease to exist, thus preventing their own time travel.
It highlights the logical inconsistencies that arise from the possibility of altering the past, creating a paradox where the action both occurs and cannot occur.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Grandfather #Paradox states that if one were to travel back in time and kill their grandfather before their parent's conception, they would cease to exist, thus preventing their own time travel.
It highlights the logical inconsistencies that arise from the possibility of altering the past, creating a paradox where the action both occurs and cannot occur.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Grandfather #Paradox states that if one were to travel back in time and kill their grandfather before their parent's conception, they would cease to exist, thus preventing their own time travel.
It highlights the logical inconsistencies that arise from the possibility of altering the past, creating a paradox where the action both occurs and cannot occur.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Grandfather #Paradox states that if one were to travel back in time and kill their grandfather before their parent's conception, they would cease to exist, thus preventing their own time travel.
It highlights the logical inconsistencies that arise from the possibility of altering the past, creating a paradox where the action both occurs and cannot occur.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Mount #Roraima is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepuis (table-top mountain) or plateaux in South America.
It is composed of Proterozoic age sandstone formed about 1.7 to 2 billion years ago, and hence amongst the #Oldest rocks on Earth.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Orogeny, or mountain building, is the result of collision between two landmasses.
This may occur via collision of continental crust (continent-continent collision) or when oceanic and continental crust collide (ocean-continent collision).
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#KnowledgeBit: #Orogeny, or mountain building, is the result of collision between two landmasses.
This may occur via collision of continental crust (continent-continent collision) or when oceanic and continental crust collide (ocean-continent collision).
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#KnowledgeBit: #Orogeny, or mountain building, is the result of collision between two landmasses.
This may occur via collision of continental crust (continent-continent collision) or when oceanic and continental crust collide (ocean-continent collision).
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#KnowledgeBit: #Orogeny, or mountain building, is the result of collision between two landmasses.
This may occur via collision of continental crust (continent-continent collision) or when oceanic and continental crust collide (ocean-continent collision).
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#KnowledgeBit: #Orogeny, or mountain building, is the result of collision between two landmasses.
This may occur via collision of continental crust (continent-continent collision) or when oceanic and continental crust collide (ocean-continent collision).
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#KnowledgeBit: Russian chemist Dmitri #Mendeleev was the first to arrange elements in the structure we know as the periodic table. Mendeleev was a lover of card games and used a solitaire sorting strategy of columns and rows to help arrange the elements.
Periodic Table of the Elements: Origins of the Elements.
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#KnowledgeBit: Russian chemist Dmitri #Mendeleev was the first to arrange elements in the structure we know as the periodic table. Mendeleev was a lover of card games and used a solitaire sorting strategy of columns and rows to help arrange the elements.
Periodic Table of the Elements: Origins of the Elements.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Penrose #Stairs are a two-dimensional optical illusion that depicts a staircase that forms a continuous loop. The stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend.
When viewed from a specific angle, it gives the illusion that the stairs are continuously ascending or descending. However, the structure is physically impossible to exist in three-dimensional space.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Penrose #Stairs are a two-dimensional optical illusion that depicts a staircase that forms a continuous loop. The stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend.
When viewed from a specific angle, it gives the illusion that the stairs are continuously ascending or descending. However, the structure is physically impossible to exist in three-dimensional space.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Asteroid #Bennu, a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid, is a fascinating object of study, known for its potential hazard to Earth and its role in understanding the early solar system and the origins of life.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/trends/browser?topic=Asteroid-Bennu
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#KnowledgeBit: #Polyfluoroalkyl substances or "forever chemicals," PFAS for short are chemicals that are widespread in the environment due to human production and release of these chemicals.
These are so durable that they are referred to as "#ForeverChemicals"; and have detrimental health concerns not yet fully understood.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Karyogram is a diagram or #Photograph of the #Chromosomes of a cell, arranged in homologous pairs and in a numbered sequence. The way chromosomes are organized in the image makes them easy to visualize.
It is also called #Idiogram.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Inventors are individuals who introduce new ideas, methods, or products. They are the driving force behind progress and development. #Inventions are the tangible results of their creativity and ingenuity.
Here are some influential innovators and their inventions.
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#KnowledgeBit: A #Carbon #Offset is a reduction or removal of emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for emissions made elsewhere.
Some common examples of projects include reforestation, building renewable energy, carbon-storing agricultural practices, and waste and landfill management.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/trends/explorer?topic=Carbon-Offset
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#KnowledgeBit: #Kepler-452b is an #Exoplanet sometimes quoted to be an #Earth2.0 or Earth's Cousin based on its characteristics. It is the first potentially rocky super-Earth planet discovered orbiting within the habitable zone of a star very similar to the Sun.
Of the 1,030 confirmed planets from Kepler, a dozen are less than twice the size of Earth and reside in the habitable zone of their host stars.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/gk/history/5b547c0d24c1440007e6ff00
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#KnowledgeBit : The #Fermi #Paradox, named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations and various high estimates for their probability (such as some optimistic estimates for the Drake equation).
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#KnowledgeBit: #Geospace is the region of near-Earth space, extending from the upper atmosphere to the boundary where Earth's magnetic field meets solar wind, roughly 1.5 million km away.
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#KnowledgeBit: A #Nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They often form natural pyramidal peaks.
Isolated nunataks are also called #Glacial #Islands, and smaller nunataks rounded by glacial action may be referred to as rognons.
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#KnowledgeBit: A #Supercluster is a large group of smaller galaxy clusters or galaxy groups; they are among the largest known structures in the universe.
The #MilkyWay is part of the Local Group galaxy group (which contains more than 54 galaxies), which in turn is part of the Virgo Supercluster, which is part of the #Laniakea Supercluster.
The number of superclusters in the observable universe is estimated to be 10 million.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Zebrafish, a popular #Aquarium fish, is an important and widely used vertebrate #Model #Organism in scientific research, for example in drug development, in particular pre-clinical development.
It is also notable for its regenerative abilities, and has been modified by researchers to produce many #Transgenic (genetically modified organisms) strains.
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#KnowledgeBit: Often called the Asian #Unicorn, little is known about the enigmatic #Saola in the two decades since its discovery. None exist in captivity and this rarely-seen mammal is already critically #Endangered.
It was described in 1993 following a discovery of remains in Vũ Quang Nature Reserve, Vietnam.
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#KnowledgeBit: #LIGO, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is the world's largest gravitational wave observatory.
LIGO is designed to detect gravitational waves released when two neutron stars or black holes spiral into each other or when a stellar core collapses and causes a Type II supernova.
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#KnowledgeBit: Lise Meitner, called the "German #MarieCurie" by Albert Einstein, was a brilliant Austrian-Swedish physicist who made significant contributions to the field of nuclear physics.
She is most famous for her work on #Nuclear #Fission, a discovery for which her colleague Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Lise-Meitner--German-Marie-Curie-67f681e2ed9bc0c45547d9ad
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#KnowledgeBit: The #PeacockThrone was a famous and one of the most expensive jewelled #Thrones - that was the seat of the #Mughal emperors in India.
Several historical diamonds decorated the throne - including the 186-carat Koh-i-Noor #Diamond.By some account, it cost two times more than the #TajMahal.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #PeacockThrone was a famous and one of the most expensive jewelled #Thrones - that was the seat of the #Mughal emperors in India.
Several historical diamonds decorated the throne - including the 186-carat Koh-i-Noor #Diamond.By some account, it cost two times more than the #TajMahal.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #PeacockThrone was a famous and one of the most expensive jewelled #Thrones - that was the seat of the #Mughal emperors in India.
Several historical diamonds decorated the throne - including the 186-carat Koh-i-Noor #Diamond.By some account, it cost two times more than the #TajMahal.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #PeacockThrone was a famous and one of the most expensive jewelled #Thrones - that was the seat of the #Mughal emperors in India.
Several historical diamonds decorated the throne - including the 186-carat Koh-i-Noor #Diamond.By some account, it cost two times more than the #TajMahal.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #PeacockThrone was a famous and one of the most expensive jewelled #Thrones - that was the seat of the #Mughal emperors in India.
Several historical diamonds decorated the throne - including the 186-carat Koh-i-Noor #Diamond.By some account, it cost two times more than the #TajMahal.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #PeacockThrone was a famous and one of the most expensive jewelled #Thrones - that was the seat of the #Mughal emperors in India.
Several historical diamonds decorated the throne - including the 186-carat Koh-i-Noor #Diamond.By some account, it cost two times more than the #TajMahal.