Shimmering 'Super-Earth' In Constellation Cassiopeia Discovered.

Located 21 light years away from us, this planet, dubbed HD219134 b, has a mass almost five times that of Earth, which is considered a so-called "super-Earth".

Saturn's Rings Are Already Halfway To Their Death.

We live in an extraordinary era, scientists say - the brief blip in the 4.6-billion-year life of our solar system in which Saturn's rings are visible.

NASA Photographs Mars InSight Lander From Space

On November 26, InSight landed within a 130 km ellipse at Elysium Planitia on Mars. However, there was no way to determine exactly where it touched down within this region.

This Is How Statue Of Unity Looks From Space

Here's what California's wildfires look like from space

At least nine people have died in the most destructive wildfires ripping through north and south California. More than 250,000 people have been forced to flee their homes to avoid three major blazes in the state. Firefighters were powerless in stopping a wildfire destroying the northern town of Paradise, where 35 people are missing. A raging wildfire swept into the southern beach resort of Malibu - home to many Hollywood stars - on Friday.

Authorities say the Camp Fire in the north and the Woolsey Fire and Hill Fire in the south are being fanned by strong winds and dry forests. "The magnitude of the destruction of the fire is unbelievable and heartbreaking," said Mark Ghilarducci, of the California governor's office

Nobel Prize For Economics 2018

Nobel Economics 2018 Awarded To US' William D Nordhaus, Paul M Romer.The Academy says, their findings have broadened the scope of economic analysis by constructing models explaining how market economy interacts.

Nobel Peace Prize 2018

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Physician Mukwege, Yazidi Rape Victim Murad.The pair won the award for their "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war," Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said in unveiling the winners in Oslo.

Nobel Prize For Chemistry 2018

US scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for applying the principles of evolution to develop enzymes used to make everything from biofuels to pharmaceuticals, the jury said.Arnold won one half of the nine million Swedish kronor (about $1.01 million or 870,000 euros) prize, while Smith and Winter shared the other half.

Nobel Prize For Physics 2018

Three researchers on Tuesday shared the 2018 Nobel Physics Prize for inventions in the field of laser physics which have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in corrective eye surgery and industry, the jury said.Arthur Ashkin of the United States won one half of the prize, while Gerard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada shared the other half.

Nobel Prize For Medicine 2018

James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan have been honoured "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation," the Nobel Assembly said.

Enchanting Verses Poetry Book By Venkatesh M.R.

Enchanting Verses Poetry Book Front Cover.

Happy Independence Day - A Poem

Like bright sun after solar eclipse
Bestowing to people lot of hope fruits
After clearing their failures from past
And achieve success that lasts.

In the azure sky as people gaze
The sun keeps all of them in focus
And showing them in cycle of change
We can survive together any change.

For generation to change for better
Filled with hope and laughter
Enjoying their country’s independence
Guided by sun in sky’s presence

US Open 2018 Men's final

Novak Djokovic wins 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 against Juan Martin del Potro in US Open final.

US Open 2018 Women's Final

Naomi Osaka beat Serena Williams 6-2 6-4 in New York.

The House of Life - A Inspirational Poem

To be in laughter of hill
And pleasantness feel
In the joy of your heart abode
Strive to make the road.

To share and care around
With sincerity holding to the ground
Dreaming in the ambience of hope
Like blooming flowers which none can stop.

Then life garden will be sweet
For your goals to meet
So you could with happiness cherish
Living in the beauty of your house.

Independence Day 2018

After lunar eclipse like bright Moon
People’s ambitions are light seen
The calm and silent night glows
Filled with people’s dreams.

To dance and make merry
After they succeed in their goals daily
Decorated like stars in the sky
Which together twinkle and glorify.

Celebrating the independence in this way
Will bring joy to your heart every day
Keeping the country in forward motion
Filled with happiness and joy emotions.

Wimbledon Women's Final 2018

Angelique Kerber beats Serena Williams to claim first title 6-3, 6-3.

Wimbledon Men's Final 2018

Novak Djokovic wins fourth Wimbledon by beating Kevin Anderson 6-2, 6-2, 7-6(3).

Rotary Club Puttur

Rotary Club Bulletin Release..

French Open 2018 Men's Final

Rafael Nadal beats Dominic Thiem in men's final 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 to win the French Open!. This is Rafael Nadal's11th French Open title .

French Open 2018 women's singles

Simona Halep topples Sloane Stephens for first Grand Slam .Sloane Stephens dominated early, but the No. 1-ranked Romanian dominated in Saturday's deciding set to win 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.The 26-year-old Halep, The first Romanian to win a Grand Slam since 1978.

Ohm Namo Venkatesaya - A Poem

Lying in the bed of serpent with his beloved
Gazing and protecting the whole world
From many light years away in celestial abode
Is our beloved lord of the whole world.

With ten avatars in each cycle
In him beings come in and out reveals
In which few are ferocious as lion
And few avatars like a cowherd tame.

When your are awake and surrender at his feet
Your sins are washed and in front of you is heavenly gate
Where your soul lives in perfect harmony
With love of the lord accompanying.

Who are you! - A Light Poetry

Gopal was a teen age boy
Who was always shy
But he loved a girl in school
And around her secretly he use to fool.

Gopal thought many ways to approach
But she was out of reach
And he thought to send sms
So she could consider him please.

He sent, “I like when you like me back,
Cuz my life is at your stake and lot of difference you make.”
She replied kindly, ‘ I love you too,
But please tell me, who are you?!’

Long Face

3 years old Gopal loved his dad
And in free time they together played
In the evening after he came from work
When before coffee he would take a break.

His mom would prepare snakes and biscuits
Which they would happily taste
Enjoying each other company
And being together happily.

One day when Gopal’s dad went to wash his face
Gopal said he will help him in his place
And when his father asked why he took long time to finish
He replied, ‘ Your head is bald, you got a long face!”

NASA Baffled By Mysterious Ice Circles In The Arctic

NASA has spent the past decade flying over the Earth's Arctic and Antarctic regions in an attempt to understand the connections between the world's climate systems, and to look at global warming's impact on some of the coldest places on Earth.Add this to the ever-growing list of things you have to worry about:

Somewhere in the Arctic sea ice, where the temperatures are typically below freezing on even the balmiest days, there is a random pattern of holes, and NASA - the literal rocket scientists who took us to the moon and want to take us to Mars - can't figure out what they are.

Nothing to Worry!

Gopal parents loved each other
But in government his Dad was a minister
And he was always busy
Still he took everything easy.

One day his parents were invited to a function
And his mother did not want to miss her relation
She was looking forward to go there
And she asked Gopal’s Dad was he aware.

He said he had a assembly session
But to worry there is no reason
He asked for her relation to buy sweets
As he would stage a walkout and join in 15 minutes!

Black Knight Riding On White Horse

Venkatesh M.R. Photo

Astronomers Find The 'Impossible': A Galaxy Without Dark Matter

Stupefied astronomers on Wednesday unveiled the first and only known galaxy without dark matter, the invisible and poorly-understood substance thought to make up a quarter of the Universe. The discovery could revise or even upend theories of how galaxies are formed, they reported in the journal Nature. "This is really bizarre," said co-author Roberto Abraham, an astronomer at the University of Toronto. "For a galaxy this size, it should have 30 times as much dark matter as regular matter," he told AFP by phone. "What we found is that there is no dark matter at all." "That shouldn't be possible," he added. There are 200 billion observable galaxies, perhaps more, astronomers estimate.

Who Needs $20 Million? Moon Race Still On Without Google's Prize

Google called off its race to the moon weeks ago, when it became clear no private explorer would complete the trip by the March 31 deadline. That won't stop at least three teams from Israel, Japan and the U.S., who say their missions are a still a go, with or without the contest's $20 million prize.

"We are full steam ahead," said Yigal Harel, program director at SpaceIL, the Israeli team that plans a soft-landing on the moon later this year.

When the Lunar XPrize was introduced in 2007, interest in moon exploration was at a low. No government had landed there since the 1970s and no businesses had seriously contemplated it. But the contest has had its intended effect, jump-starting a cottage industry of would-be space explorers, even if no one emerged to take Google's money. Last year, overall investment in space startups by venture capitalists climbed to a record $2.8 billion, according research firm CB Insights

Astronomers Detect Signal Of Universe's First Stars

The observation came after a decade-long quest, years earlier than expected, and was described by one excited observer as the biggest astronomical breakthrough since the Nobel-capped detection of gravitational waves in 2015.

Alien Life In Our Solar System? Study Hints At Saturn's Moon

The icy orb known as Enceladus may boast ideal living conditions for single-celled microorganisms known as archaeans found in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, they reported in the science journal Nature Communications.

Sun Light Through The Pillar Of Shiva Temple In Puttur

Sun Light Through The Pillar Of Shiva Temple In Puttur In Karnataka, India

Giant Replica Of Moon Unveiled At Kolkata's Victoria Memorial

The 'Museum of the Moon' is a project of the British Council, supported by the Ministry of Culture. It has been put on display at the Victoria Memorial Hall in the city for the weekend visitors. The 23-feet-wide replica of the moon is half a million times smaller than the real moon.

Astronauts Compete In First Ever Space Badminton Contest

Astronauts from America's NASA, Japan's JAXA and Russia's Roscosmos took part in the interstellar tournament

Scientists Discover The First Planets Outside The Milky Way

The truth is out there. And past that is a cluster of planets 3.8 billion light-years away, a recent discovery that if confirmed could extend the boundary of what we know about the universe.

Using data from a NASA X-ray laboratory in space, Xinyu Dai, an astrophysicist and professor at the University of Oklahoma, detected, for the first time ever, a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. The mass of the planets range in size from Earth's moon to the massive Jupiter, our solar system's biggest planet.

There are few methods to determine the existence of distant planets. They are so far away that no telescope can observe them, Dai told The Washington Post. So Dai and his postdoctoral researcher Eduardo Guerras relied on a scientific principle to make the discovery: Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Australian open 2018 Men's Final

Roger Federer wins 2018 Australian Open beats Marin Cilic 6-2 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 3-6 6-1.A sixth Australian Open title, a 20th Grand Slam victory for the 36-year-old Swiss.

Super Blue Moon Eclipse

A moon is seen during a lunar eclipse referred to as the super blue blood moon in Bengaluru.

Australian Open: Women Final 2018

An emotional Caroline Wozniacki finally lifted her first Grand Slam title at the 43rd attempt as she beat Simona Halep in three energy-sapping sets to win the Australian Open on Saturday.The Dane, who will become the new world number one, burst into tears as she secured the championship 7-6 (7/2), 3-6, 6-4 against the battling Romanian top seed on her first match point of a gruelling, epic encounter.

Happy New Year 2018 !! - A Poem

Scientists Zoom In On Fast Radio Bursts, The Most Mysterious Signals In Space

An international team of astronomers traced a repeating fast radio burst to a region of star formation in a dim dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away. Nobody knows what causes fast radio bursts - brief, bizarre radio wave beams that emit more energy in a fraction of a millisecond than the sun does all day. But scientists just got closer than ever before to the source of one of these enigmatic signals. In research presented Wednesday at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, an international team of astronomers traced a repeating fast radio burst to a region of star formation in a dim dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away. There, they said, the high energy beam is being savagely twisted by a powerful magnetic field amid a dense cloud of hot, ionized gas. The finding helps illuminate the extreme environment these radio bursts call home. But scientists are still scratching their heads over what could cause such a mighty blast.

The Strangest Star In The Sky Finally Has An Explanation For Its Flicker

Fourteen hundred light-years separate Earth from the strangest star in the sky. The light from this star flickers, like a giant neon sign drifting through the constellation Cygnus. After the star's dim intervals, which last for days or weeks, it brightens again. No other star acted this way. No observation could explain its behavior. That is, until now. A 200-strong team of scientists says it has arrived at an answer, thanks to an astronomy project crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The culprits are not aliens, as some people have speculated, but probably a cloud of dust, each particle less than a micrometer across. Combined, these dust particles coalesced into one of the biggest question marks in recent astronomical memory.