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Sultan Al Neyadi is already a national hero in the United Arab Emirates. He has earned the nickname 'Sultan of Space' even before lift-off. 

After carefully studying the entire data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which indicated the planet's existence, the team decided to observe it with Webb. Webb's near-infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) recorded the planet simply and clearly just after two transit observations.   

Funded by the UK Space Agency, the mission was expected to meet a key ambition of the country's National Space Strategy -- first-ever orbital launch from its soil. It would have also been the first orbital launch from anywhere in western Europe.

According to NASA, there is a 1-in-9,400 chance of being injured by falling debris. The satellite is expected to land on Sunday night, give or take 17 hours. However, the California-based Aerospace Corp. has aimed for Monday morning, give or take 13 hours.

According to researchers at Duke University in the United States, the failure of some patients to recover their smell sense after COVID-19 is linked to a persistent immunological assault on olfactory nerve cells and a corresponding decrease in the number of those cells.

Resuspension of these germs can infect people in the vicinity. The antimicrobial air filters were tested at the NABL Accredited Laboratory and were found to deactivate SARS-CoV-2 (delta variant) with an efficiency of 99.24%.

More than 100 meteors will pass by in an hour, but Bengaluru will not be able to see all of them due to air pollution, and the gibbous moon that could obscure the shooting stars.

NASA’s Orion capsule has splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after making an uncrewed voyage around the Moon, winding up the inaugural mission of the US space agency’s Artemis lunar programme 50 years to the day after Apollo’s final Moon landing.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa revealed the eight crew members he plans to take on a trip around the moon in 2023 on a SpaceX rocket. Indian actor Dev Joshi, K-pop star TOP, DJ Steve Aoki are among the eight names.  

COVID leaked from Wuhan: Epidemiologist Andrew Huff in his latest book 'The Truth About Wuhan' claimed that the pandemic was caused by the US government's funding of coronaviruses in China, according to excerpts of the book.