Business Magnate Richard Branson Becomes First Billionaire To Fly Into Space
On 11 July 2021 (Sunday), British billionaire, philanthropist and business tycoon, Richard Branson became the first billionaire to fly into space, after making a historic space flight aboard the Virgin Galactic spacecraft ‘VSS Unity’ from New Mexico in the US. Branson beat fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos by just 09 days, who is set to travel to space on 20 July 2021. According to this flight plan, the VSS Unity space plane was towed by a carrier aircraft to an altitude of 45,000 feet or 13,700 meters from where it separated. The 1.5-hour flight also allowed passengers to experience a few
NASA shares galaxy cluster Abell 370 image
On January 19, 2021, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shared a stunning photo of the giant galaxy cluster – Abell 370 – on its social media account. This picture is the first in itself, as it shows a huge cluster of galaxies. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shared an image on its Twitter and Instagram account with a post that wrote, “This light and ridges cover the Hubble Classic image of this galaxy Abell 370.” The Abel 370 galaxy cluster is located 4.9 billion light-years away from Earth in the constellation Setus. NASA reported that the strange shapes seen