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American Airlines reported a $1.3 billion profit for the second quarter, continuing the run of strong results from the nation's airlines DALLAS -- American Air lines reported a $1.34 billion profit for the second quarter , boosted by strong ticket sales and a huge drop in the price of jet fuel, and the airline raised its profit expectations for the year. Revenue rose 5% to a quarterly record of $14.06 billion. International travel in particular is picking up, and that is helping American, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines. Thanks to lower fuel prices, the carrier's spending at the pump plunged 32%, saving the American about $1.3 billion compared with a year earlier. That was partly offset, however, by labor costs that are rising and will soon increase much more rapidly. Analysts were disappointed in American's forecast that third-quarter revenue per seat will decline about 6% as the airline adds more flights, which could renew concern about the durability of strong...

Perhaps you believe that one Earth is sufficient. But what if the number was in the billion s? According to new research, the number of Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy could approach 6 billion. Astronomers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) examined data from NASA’s Kepler project and came to a startling conclusion. From 2009 to 2018, the Kepler planet-hunting satellite collected data on 200,000 stars. The scientists’ criterion for picking such a planet included that it had to be rocky, around the same size as Earth, and orbiting a star like our Sun. This planet had to be in the habitable zone of its star, where the conditions would be ideal for the presence of water and life. Michelle Kunimoto, a UBC researcher who previously identified 17 new planet s (“exo planet s”) outside our Solar System,  stated  that their calculations “set an upper limit of 0.18 Earth-like planet s per G-type star.” In other words, there are ap...

Juno is a NASA space probe that orbits Jupiter. Lockheed Martin built it, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory operates it. As part of the New Frontiers programme, the spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011 UTC.   NASA’s $1 billion Juno space craft captured spectacular flyby photographs while Travel ing at more than 130,000 kilometres per hour above Jupiter. You can see these amazing image s below: . . . . Cyclones at the north pole of Jupiter appear as swirls of striking colors in this extreme false color rendering of an image from NASA’s Juno mission.   .   You can see the whole collection here. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/beautiful-new-images-of-jupiter-taken-by-nasa-s-1-billion-juno-spacecraft-have-been-released-TheFOXposts-6542.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Astronomy Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

Four years ago, Australian David Hole was running his metal detector around Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne when he found a thirty-seven pound rock. Four years ago, Australian David Hole was running his metal detector around Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne when he found a thirty-seven pound rock. Try as he might, for over four years, Hole was unable to сгасk the rock using a sledgehammer, acid, a rock saw, a drill, and a grinder. The area he found it was known for gold deposits, and Hole assumed that the rock was hiding gold inside. It was a reddish color and measured about fifteen inches by five and a half inches by five and a half inches, according to Museums Victoria. Finally, he took the rock to the Melbourne Museum to be іdeпtіfіed, which would perhaps give a clue to how to Ьгeаk it. As it turned oᴜt, it was no ordinary rock, and it wasn’t gold; it was a four and a half billion year old meteorite that, according to carbon dating, has been sittin...