For the first time, astronomers have pointed NASA’s two flagship space telescopes at the same patch of sky beyond Neptune and let them work as a team. Hubble handled the visible light. Webb handled the infrared. Together, they picked out 27 previously unknown trans-Neptunian objects, or TNOs — small, icy bodies that drift in the […]
Picture a moonless night, far from any city. Look straight at the point in the sky opposite the Sun — the antisolar point, where the Sun would appear if you could see it through the Earth. There, faintly, you might make out an oval-shaped glow, 8 to 10 degrees across. For scale, that’s roughly the […]
Wegen des vollkommen außer Kontrolle geratenen Wachstums der US-Staatsverschuldung gibt es immer wieder Diskussionen über einen möglichen Zusammenbruch der US-Wirtschaft und des US-dominierten Finanzsystems. Ich habe oft darauf hingewiesen, dass diese Gefahr sicherlich besteht, aber garantiert nicht kurzfristig, sondern bestenfalls mittel- oder sogar langfristig. Ein russische Wirtschaftsprofessorin hat für die TASS in einem Artikel erklärt, […]
Greece’s central bank sees the further participation of foreign financial institutions in the share capital of Greek banks as absolutely desirable, Bank of Greece governor Yannis Stournaras said in statements to the German newspaper “Handelsblatt” on Monday. He noted that further participation of global financial institutions on the path toward a European banking union would […]