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Sahara being one of the hottest and driest places on earth, where temperature reaches to 122 degrees Fahrenheit, witnessing snowfall is actually a rarity. The reason associated with thesnowfall in this region is because of cold air aloft associated with a surface storm drifting from Spain to northern Algeria. As per Meteorologist Jason Nicholls, “The cold pool of air coupled with precipitation from the surface storm led to precipitation falling as snow instead of rain. The same feature responsible for the snow over the Sahara brought the heavy snow to the Alps earlier this week.” Scientists are, however, not attributing this rare snowfall event to the climate change as extreme weather conditions might become more of a common thing in the future, as well as the climate changes

READ CAPTION How a Student Took a Photo of a Single Atom The award-winning long-exposure photograph captures a positively charged atom suspended in an ion trap. SOMETIMES, ALL IT takes to capture a great photo is a DSLR camera, a microscopic atom, and a curious Ph.D. candidate. David Nadlinger, who traps atoms for his quantum computing research at the University of Oxford, captured this image on August 7 using a standard DSLR camera. The photo shows a pinprick of a positively charged strontium atom illuminated by a blue-violet light on a black background. The atom is held nearly motionless by an electric field emanating from two metal electrodes placed on either side of it. The distance between the ion trap's small needle tips is less than .08 of an inch. The photograph, entitled "Single Atom in an Ion Trap," won the overall science photography prize put on by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

  Objects with mass are attracted to each other, this is known as gravity. Gravity keeps Earth and the other planets in our solar system in orbit around the Sun. It also keeps the Moon in orbit around Earth. Tides are caused by the rotation of the Earth and the gravitational effects of the Moon and Sun. Because marshas a lower gravity than Earth, a person weighing 200 pounds on Earth would only weigh 76 pounds on Mars. It is thought that newton’s theories on gravity were inspired by seeing an apple fall from a tree. While Newton’s older law of universal gravitation is accurate in most scenarios, modern physics uses alebert eiastein’s general theory of relativity to describe gravity. Acceleration of objects to due to the gravity on Earth is around 9.8 m/s2. If you ignore air resistance (drag) then the speed of an object falling to Earth increases by around 9.8 metres per second every second. The force of gravity 100 kilometres (62 miles) above Earth is just 3% less than at the Earth’s s

View of mount Fuji from the airplane above it. ✈️✈️⛰️⛰️❤️❤️ Fuji, hardly any of the mountain can be seen from the planes' windows. For flights departing from Haneda Airport, this applies to routes flying to such airports as Kumamoto and Oita airport. Depending on your flight path, you may be able to get a rare top-down view of Mt. Fuji from the left side of the plane. For more scientific fact and information follow @map_of_science_

 Zooming southern Crab Nebula🦀🦀🌌🔭 Watch full video and comment👇👇👇 For more scientific fact and information follow @map_of_science_

 The Oh-My-God particle was an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected on 15 October 1991 by the Fly's Eye camera in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, U.S. At that time it was the highest-energy cosmic ray that had ever been observed.Although higher energy cosmic rays have been detected since then, this particle's energy was unexpected, and called into question theories of that era about the origin and propagation of cosmic rays. The Oh-My-God particle's energy was estimated as (3.2±0.9)×1020 eV, or 51 J. This is 20 million times more energetic than the highest energy measured in electromagnetic radiation emitted by an extragalactic object.It had 1020(100 quintillion) times the photon energy of visible light, equivalent to a 140 grams (5 oz) baseball travelling at about 26 m/s (94 km/h; 58 mph). Assuming it was a proton, this particle traveled at 99.99999999999999999999951% of the speed of light, its Lorentz factor was 3.2×1011 and its rapidity was 27.1. At this speed, if a photon

 A magnetar is a type of neutron star believed to have an extremely powerful magnetic field(∼109 to 1011 T, ∼1013 to 1015 G).The magnetic field decay powers the emission of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-rays and gamma rays. The theory regarding these objects was proposed by Robert Duncan and Christopher Thompsonin 1992, but the first recorded burst of gamma rays thought to have been from a magnetar had been detected on March 5, 1979. During the following decade, the magnetar hypothesis became widely accepted as a likely explanation for soft gamma repeaters(SGRs) and anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs). On 1 June 2020, astronomers reported narrowing down the source of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), which may now plausibly include "compact-object mergers and magnetars arising from normal core collapse supernovae. 👉 follow  @map_of_science_

 Shipwreck at moonset🌓🌒 Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 November 24 Image Credit & Copyright: Vikas Chander A crescent Moon is about to sink under the western horizon in this sea and night skyscape. The atmospheric photo was taken on September 11 from the desert shore along the Skeleton Coast of Namibia. So close to moonset, the moonlight is reddened and dimmed by the low, long line-of-sight across the Atlantic. But near the center of the frame Venus still shines brightly, its light reflected in calm ocean waters. The celestial beacon above the brilliant evening star is bright planet Jupiter.Namibia's Skeleton Coast was so named for the many seal and whale bones that were once strewn along the shoreline. In more recent times it's better known for shipwrecks. For more scientific fact and information follow @map_of_science_

 Evolution in Action: Lizard Moving From Eggs to Live Birth A skink species lays eggs on the coast but births babies in the mountains, giving a rare glimpse at how placentas evolved, scientists say Along the warm coastal lowlands of New South Wales (map), the yellow-bellied three-toed skink lays eggs to reproduce. But individuals of the same species living in the state's higher, colder mountains are almost all giving birth to live young. Only two other modern reptiles—another skink species and a European lizard—use both types of reproduction. (Related: "Virgin Birth Expected at Christmas—By Komodo Dragon.") Evolutionary records shows that nearly a hundred reptile lineages have independently made the transition from egg-laying to live birth in the past, and today about 20 percent of all living snakes and lizards give birth to live young only. For more scientific fact and information follow @map_of_science_

  This gorgeous songbird is half male, half female While banding birds in Pennsylvania, researchers discovered an unusual rose-breasted grosbeak. Researchers with a team monitoring bird populations at Powdermill Nature Reserve, in Rector, Pennsylvania, netted a surprise on September 24: a rose-breasted grosbeak with bizarre coloring. It had the bright scarlet feathers of a male grosbeak on one side of its body and the canary yellow plumage of a female on the other. For more scientific fact and information follow  Researchers at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History said less than 10 bilateral gynandromorph birds have been documented in the reserve's 64-year bird banding history. The reserve's only other documented Rose-breasted Grosbeak bilateral gynandromorph was banded in 2005. Annie Lindsay, Powdermill’s bird banding program manager, said finding the gynandromorph is a “once-in-a-lifetime experience.” “One [of the banding team members] described it as ‘seeing a unicorn’ and

 Read captions carefully.........👇👇👇👇 Astronomers were surprised after what used to be a familiar planet appeared with a new look. Jupiter changed the color of its stripes and some of its famous swirls.  The storms created disturbances in their flow and color, which gave the planet a new look. Researchers used data gathered through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and telescopes on Earth.  Understanding How Jupiter Changes Color The planet’s atmosphere contains high levels of hydrogen and helium. Methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and water are also present above the surface. Jupiter’s top-most cloud layer gives its colorful appearance, including the brown belts and white swirls. Astronomers spotted the bright plumes that changed Jupiter’s colors in January 2017. The storm clouds appeared like the cumulonimbus clouds on Earth.  The study backs a theory, called moist convection, which explains how plumes form. It suggests that the combination of ammonia and water vapor in the atmos

 Infinite is everywhere😮😮😮  The above multiple-exposure photo shows the figure-eight path of thesun over the course of the entire year, known as an analemma. Analemma photographs are made by taking a picture of the sun from the same place at the same time of day once or twice a week, generating 30 to 50 frames. This picture, made in Veszprem, Hungary, combines 36 photos of the sun taken at 10 a.m. local time between January and December. A separate picture of the neighborhood taken from the same location but at a different time of day was digitally composited into the foreground. The sun makes this shape over a year because Earth rotates on a slightly different axis than the sun, and our planet also travels on an elliptical orbit. As one hemisphere of Earth tilts farther from the sun, the arc of the sun's daily path seen from that location lowers toward the horizon. The sun's arc then gets higher in the sky as the tilt reverses. The sun's highest point in the sky, seen i

              Quasars emit energies of millions,  Quasars emit energies of millions, billions, or even trillions of electron volts. This energy exceeds the total of the light of all the stars within a galaxy. The brightest objects in the universe, they shine anywhere from 10 to 100,000 times brighter than the Milky Way. Quasars are capable of emitting hundreds or even thousands of times the entire energy output of our galaxy, making them some of the most luminous and energetic objects in the entire universe," according to NASA. For instance, if the ancient quasar 3C 273, one of the brightest objects in the sky, was located 30 light-years from Earth, it would appear as bright as the sun in the sky. (However, quasar 3C 273, the first quasar to be identified, is 2.5 billion light-years from Earth, according to NASA. It is one of the closest quasars.) 👉 follow on Instagram @map_of_science_

  Why is light affected by gravity ?? Light is affected by Gravity🔦🔦🔦💡💡 light is affected by gravity, but not in its speed. General Relativity (our best guess as to how the Universe works) gives two effects of gravity on light. It can bend light (which includes effects such as  And it can change the energy of light. But it changes the energy by shifting the frequency of the light (gravitational redshift) not by changing light speed. Gravity bends light by warping space so that what the light beam sees as "straight" is not straight to an outside observer. The speed of light is still constant. For more scientific fact and information follow @map_of_science_

                       Map of science Fact -02  Only three people Navy Lt. Don Walsh, a submariner, and explorer Jacques Piccard.  have ever done that, and one was a U.S. Navy submariner. In the Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, lies the Marianas Trench, also known as the Mariana Trench. At 35,814 feet below sea level, its bottom is called the Challenger Deep — the deepest pointknown on Earth. In the Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, lies the Marianas Trench, also known as the Mariana Trench. At 35,814 feet below sea level, its bottom is called the Challenger Deep — the deepest point known on Earth. In fact, to put it into perspective, think about the Titanic, which was found 12,600 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean — nearly 2.4 miles down. The Challenger Deep is nearly three times deeper than that. For more scientific fact and information  follow  on Instagram - @map_of_science_

                      Why Sanskrit is so popular                            Map of science    Sanskrit is a classical language of South Asia belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late Bronze age.  The oldest form ofSanskrit is Vedic Sanskrit that dates back to the 2nd millennium BCE. Known as 'themother of all languages,' Sanskrit is the dominanclassical language of the Indian subcontinent and one of the 22 officiallanguages of India.  For more scientific fact and information  follow @map_of_science_