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                                                             DARK MATTER BY-SANKET KUMAR SAHU BRAHMAPUR,ODISHA Dark matter , a component of the   universe   whose presence is discerned from its   gravitational   attraction rather than its luminosity. Dark matter makes up 30.1 percent of the   matter -energy   composition   of the universe; the rest is   dark energy   (69.4 percent) and “ordinary” visible matter (0.5 percent). Originally known as the “missing mass,” dark matter’s existence was first inferred by Swiss American astronomer   Fritz Zwicky , who in 1933 discovered that the mass of all the   stars   in the   Coma cluster of   galaxies   provided only about 1 percent of the mass needed to keep the galaxies from escaping the cluster’s gravitational pull. The reality of this missing mass remained in question for decades, until the 1970s when American astronomers   Vera Rubin   and   W. Kent Ford confirmed its existence by the observation of a similar phenomenon:

                                                         PINE GAP - AUSTRALIA BY-SANKET KUMAR SAHU BRAHMAPUR,ODISHA Pine Gap  is the commonly used name for a U.S. satellite surveillance base or Australian Earth station approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi) south-west of the town of Alice Springs, Northern Territory in the centre of Australia which is operated by both Australia and the United States. Since 1988, it has been officially called the  Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap  (JDFPG); previously, it was misleadingly known as  Joint Defence Space Research Facility . Partly run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. National Reconnaissance Office(NRO), the station is a key contributor to the NSA's global interception effort, which included the ECHELON program.The classified NRO name of the Pine Gap base is  Australian Mission Ground Station  (AMGS), while the unclassified cover term for the NSA function of the fac

                             THE LOST MINE OF OPHIR AND KING SOLOMON'S GOLD BY- SANKET KUMAR SAHU  BRAHMAPUR,ODISHA            King Solomon’s gold valued at more than $60 trillion. Here, King Solomon’s                                                 palace with his golden throne. Source: jw.org. Having ruled on or around 970BCE, the legendary King Solomon is arguably one of the most recognizable characters within the pages of the Old Testament. The third King of Israel, Solomon was a renowned ruler that oversaw a growth from a single state into a venerable superpower of the Middle East in biblical times. During his near four decade regency, the King had a reputation not too dissimilar to that of a certain James Bond. King Solomon had another aspect to his legend. That was his immense wealth from gold that historians say came from the lost mine of Ophir somewhere in the Middle East. By today’s standards, Solomon was reputed to have a personal fortune in excess o