hyperspace

Find out what dark matter is and how we know it exists in the video from New Scientist TV .

Last week (Aug 31 - Sep 3), I went to a short trip to Darjeeling with my family. We took the Darjeeling mail on Aug 30 night from Sealdah to New Jalpaiguri. From there we took a cab to Kurseong. From Kurseong we had reservation on the toy train to darjeeling. Hotels are are relatively cheaper at this time of the year. We stayed two full days at Darjeeling, did sightseeing in the morning, and shopping etc. in the afternoon. During our return journey, we visited Mirik. There is a beautiful lake and several tea gardens at Mirik. This is a view of the hills from toy train. The almost 3 hour toy train ride was wonderful.

Guess what are those two dots in the above picture. The left one is our Earth, and the dimmer one on the right is our moon! These are all the worlds humans have ever been. This image is taken from the recently launched Jupiter-bound spacecraft Juno. Juno was launched on Aug 5. And it took this image on Aug 26. By that time Juno travelled 9.66 million kilometers in space. It will take Juno 5 years to reach Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system. The spacecraft will probe beneath its giant clouds to get more information about its origin, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere and also look for the solid core that have long been hypotesized.