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Solar Storms Might Confuse Whale Navigation

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S olar Storms Might Confuse Whale Navigation, and Make Them More Likely to Strand Themselves There’s evidence that many different creatures use the Earth’s magnetism to navigate. That capability is called magnetoreception, and it allows organisms to sense magnetic fields, and to d erive their direction, altitude, and location from those fields. Scientists say there are two hypotheses to explain magnetoreception.    Solar Storms Might Confuse Whale Navigation

LEGAL BID to stop Starlink satellites

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Independent Astronomers from NASA open LEGAL BID to stop Starlink satellites also Observatory of Trieste in Italy believe the night sky is a shared human right under the World Heritage Convention in a case which could be brought to the International Court of Justice. The astronom ers wrote: “The harm here is damage to our cultural heritage, the night sky, and monetary damages due to the loss of radio and other types of astronomy. However, radio astronomy is also used to search for signs of life elsewhere in the universe LIKE  Project Phoenix | SETI Institute. Project Phoenix was the world's most sensitive and comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence. It was an effort to detect extraterrestrial civilizations. Now astronomers are snapping the satellites as bright trails of light recognise that this will leave some lingering nervousness with Science discovery.