In 1857, the S.S. Central America (also known as the Ship of Gold) sank off the coast of South Carolina after sailing into a hurricane in one of the worst maritime disasters in American history; 425 people were killed and thousands of pounds of gold sank with the ship to the bottom of the ocean. In 1940, the Lascaux cave paintings, estimated to be 17,000 years old, were discovered in southwestern France.
'You don't have to have training, but it just makes you more likely to have the requirements,' Laude explained. 'It could be a student, some psychology student wanting to do projects on human factors. That's not uncommon at all. There's been high school students there before.'
"Finding a temperate planet in such a compact system makes this discovery particularly exciting. It highlights the remarkable diversity of exoplanetary systems and strengthens the case for studying potentially habitable worlds around low-mass stars."
India's successful moon landing in August 2023 marked its entry into an elite group of countries capable of lunar exploration, symbolizing cultural significance alongside scientific achievement.
These are miniature monuments to human ambition, cast in crystal-clear resin and hand-painted with the kind of reverence usually reserved for museum dioramas.
