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When we were kids, we had no clue how stars were born. There were many ideas, some of which now seem inane in retrospect, but the actual process was unknown. If you’re thinking that a star gobbling up another star doesn’t make sense, this article will make you change your mind. Let us just understand what happens in the life of a huge star (> 10 times solar mass). A giant star starts generating energy by fusing hydrogen atoms to form Helium. This, however, takes millions of years to happen. The Helium core formed, will then try to fuse Helium atoms to form Beryllium because of the high temperature of the core. The star becomes a red supergiant. In the subsequent millions of years, a series of nuclear reactions take place forming different cores which would lead to an iron … Continue reading →

The name AuthaGraph is from authalic and graph which was invented by Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa in the year 1999. AuthaGraph is a rectangular world map made by an equal division of a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining the area proportions and unfolding it to be a rectangle. There was no perfect resolution in representing a spherical image on a rectangular piece of paper. In its long history, Mercator projection is one such previous art which fits in a rectangle and has been familiar for 440 years, since it has guided explorers to the new world. Thus existing maps contain distortion when transforming an entire sphere to a rectangle; they are unable to fit the outline in a rectangle without gaps, therefore, called mechanical vignetting. The proposed AuthaGraph map was developed by multi-layers of projections via a tetrahedron. By this method, it is able to transform an entire … Continue reading →

Have you heard of religions sharing shrines? Well, it happened once in Cambodia. Angkor Wat was first a Hindu religion temple and then later was turned into a Buddhist temple. Angkor Wat is a sight to behold, merely admiring Angkor Wat for its beauty is not enough. Angkor Wat is the largest and most magnificent of the one hundred temples that survive from the ancient city of Angkor, Cambodia. It was constructed at the peak of Khmer power to glorify both King Suryavarman II and Vishnu, the Hindu god with whom he was identified. Angkor wat is regarded as the pinnacle of Khmer architecture. Angkor Wat was built using five million tons of sandstone and is guarded by lion statues. It features the Churning of the Ocean of Milk. It features bas-reliefs that proceed in counterclockwise order It is located … Continue reading →

Did you know what Carolina Reaper is? The Carolina Reaper is officially the hottest pepper in the world, according to Guinness World Records as of 2013. Eyes rolling to the back of your head hot, that’s how hot a Carolina Reaper is. It was bred by Ed Currie, who runs the Pucker Butt Pepper the Company in Fort Mill, South Carolina. The pepper is a crossbreed between a ghost pepper and a red habanero pepper. The pepper’s heat is a melting 1,569,300 on the Scoville scale of Scoville Heat Units (SHU). On 07 August 2013, the Carolina Reaper was officially named the world’s hottest chili by Guinness world records, with individual peppers rating over 2.2 million Scoville Heat units (SHUs). Basically, a chili is the fruit of the plant genus “Capsicum“, which protects the seeds. The Carolina Reaper comes from the Capsicum Chinese species of chili pepper. The placenta … Continue reading →

New York City is home to some of the most significant landmarks in the world, with awe-inspiring architecture and breath-taking views everywhere you look. Built on Liberty Island in New York Harbour, Lady Liberty is a large, neoclassical sculpture, an iconic structure which is famous not only in the US, but the rest of the world. The Statue of Liberty isn’t just a huge statue of a lady, she’s a symbol of hope and freedom for the millions of people who immigrated to the USA. The statue was the first thing they saw when they first arrived by boat and an audio guide revealed what an emotional moment it was for most of them. Standing tall and watching over the city for more than a hundred years, visiting the Liberty Island should be part of everyone’s bucket list. Getting to know … Continue reading →