Giant winged reptile is the largest flying animal that ever lived on the planet

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Giant winged reptile is the largest flying animal that ever lived on the planet

But increasingly, you don’t have to be a professional astronaut to go to space (Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa into orbit this week) and space agencies are, in some cases, rethinking what astronaut training means.

For example, the European Space Agency is exploring whether it is possible to train a physically disabled people. This is a future when we ordinary people can experience space travel.

This is Katie Hunt, as Ashley Strickland, in this edition of Wonder Theory.

NASA announced their 2021 class astronaut candidates on December 6.

Meet NASA’s Artemis Generation.

The latest wave of astronaut candidates is an impressive group – around 12,000 applicants.

The six men and four women include a pilot who led the first all-female F-22 formation in combat, a former member of the national and Olympic cycling teams, and an emergency medicine physician , who was a first responder in the 2010 Haiti earthquake .

The grueling two-year training course includes developing robotics skills, flying NASA’s T-38 trainer and training in underwater spacewalks. Among those who pass Could be the next human to fly to the moon and perhaps the first man to set foot on Mars.

Night sky

You don’t have to be an astronaut to be in awe of space. Find a dark corner in your neighborhood and look up.

December offers Last chance to see a new, super fast comet orbiting the Earth – and it is the best and brightest of the year.

The comet was first discovered in January by astronomer Greg Leonard. The celestial body likely spent the last 35,000 years moving towards the sun. Once it passes close to our star on January 3, we will no longer see the comet.

As the comet approaches the sun, it lights up, which is why the weeks leading up to the event make the comet easier to see.

Important mission

Once completed, the structure will collect and store information related to the climate crisis.

A striking steel box set on a granite plain in the Australian state of Tasmania will tell future civilizations how humanity created the climate crisis – and whether we’ve failed or succeeded. work to solve it.

Designed to have thick steel walls, battery storage and solar panels, Bus-sized structure would be indestructible and meant to outlive humans, the developers of “Earth’s Black Box” say. It will collect and store climate research, data sets, news reports and interactions related to the health of our planet – even tweets.

While construction of the box won’t be completed until next year, the hard drives have been documenting the findings and algorithm-driven conversations since the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on November.

Another world

A planet orbiting a binary star system has been found so hot and so massive that some astronomers don’t think there could be a planet around it.

Ten times larger than Jupiter, it is one of the most massive planets ever found, and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile is can take this picture of it.

This exoplanet discovery is prompting a rethink of how planetary systems form. It turns out that our solar system may not be typical.

Amazing creature

It was a giant reptile. The pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus is depicted in this artist's illustration.

With a large amount With a wingspan of nearly 40 feet (12 meters), the pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus was the largest known air-dwelling animal that ever lived on our planet.

Memorably described by CNN as “giant flying killer head“, the ancient reptiles took to the skies like an aircraft carrier fighter – striking 8 feet (2.4 meters) off the ground before flapping their giant wings.

But figuring out exactly how these creatures flew took almost half a century. Of them light hollow bones – texture is like french fries – very difficult to excavate without damaging them.