Month: June 2017

When a human egg is fertilised it releases a billion zinc atoms that scientists are actually able to detect as a flash of light called the Zinc Spark.  Who knew?

The ELT will gather 100,000,000 times more light than the human eye, 8,000,000 times more than Galileo’s telescope, and 26 times more than a single VLT Unit Telescope. In fact, the ELT will gather more light than all of the existing 8–10-metre class telescopes on the planet, combined.

via Is the Extremely Large Telescope big enough to find alien life?.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/