- Astronomers have discovered a bright, mysterious geologic object on Cassini mission radar images of Ligeia Mare, the second-largest sea on Saturn’s moon Titan and have named it ” Magic Island “. The spot, which is considered a “transient feature,” may be the first observation of dynamic, geological processes in Titan’s northern hemisphere. The scientists said that the disciovery tells them that the liquids in Titan’s northern hemisphere are not simply stagnant and unchanging, but rather that changes do occur. Jason Hofgartner, from Cornell University, said that they don’t know precisely what caused this ‘magic island’ to appear, but they would like to study it further.
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- A woman sentenced to death in Sudan for being a Christian has been released from prison. Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was arrested because she does not follow the same faith as her father, who is a Muslim. So she was seen by some people in Sudan to have abandoned Islam. She was raised as a Christian and her husband is a Christian, too. So she refused to change her religion. Her sentence caused widespread protests around the world and eventually the Sudanese government decided change its decision. Her lawyer says she has now been set free.
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- Researchers have claimed to have found evidence about the building blocks of Saturn’s moon Titan pre-dating the planet itself. The researchers found that nitrogen in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan originated in conditions similar to the cold birthplace of the most ancient comets from the Oort cloud. The finding has ruled out the possibility that Titan’s building blocks formed within the warm disk of material thought to have surrounded the infant planet Saturn during its formation. The main implication of this new research is that Titan’s building blocks formed early in the solar system’s history, in the cold disk of gas and dust that formed the Sun. This was also the birthplace of many comets, which retain a primitive, or largely unchanged, composition today.
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- Daniel Radcliffe has given a hint that he’d be more than happy to play the Robin to Ben Affleck’s Batman in ‘Batman vs Super: Dawn of Justice’. The ‘Harry Potter’ star told Buzzfeed that he could be Robin with Affleck since he was perfect for the role1. Radcliffe said that if they did Batman again, he will do that too.
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- Real life Popeye, Matthias Schlitte is a German arm wrestling champion, who has a superhuman right arm due to a rare genetic defect. Nicknamed as ” Hellboy” Schlitte’s left arm is of normal size but a rare genetic defect makes his right forearm bone 33 per cent larger than his left. The 27-year-old said that his gift was recognised when he was 3-year-old but when he was just 16-year-old he went to bar in Haldensleben and weighed only 65kg, so all the bigger men laughed at him but when once he beat all of them they all started to respect him.