Science & Technology Current Affairs MCQs

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a detailed photograph of a spiral galaxy called NGC 691.
NGC 691 is a spiral galaxy located at around 125 million light-years away in the constellation of Aries. It is the foremost member of the NGC 691 group, a collection of nine galaxies of varied shapes and colors.

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On June 10th, a Solar Eclipse is to be witnessed while on June 20-21, Summer solstice, the astronomical end of spring, and the beginning of summer will occur.
This will be the day with the longest period of daylight. On the summer evenings, a curved grouping of stars is noticed across the southern sky, with red beacon. This is the constellation Scorpius, which can be observed in June. The full Moon of June is also called as ‘Strawberry Moon’.

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Microblogging platform Twitter has added an Indian payment gateway Razorpay for its Tip Jar feature, which was launched recently to allow users to send and receive money.
Using the feature, a limited group of people including creators, journalists and non-profits, could add Tip Jar to their profile and accept tips. Money can be sent through multiple modes of payment.

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As per the Union Ministry of science and technology, Indian Researchers have spotted an extremely bright, hydrogen deficient, fast-evolving supernova that shines with the energy borrowed from an exotic type of neutron star.
Such supernovae called SuperLuminous Supernova (SLSNe) is very rare, as they generally originate from very massive stars. A deep study of such ancient spatial objects can help understand the mysteries of the early Universe.

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China is set to launch the Tianzhou-3 cargo spacecraft before the end of 2022. The Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-3 cargo spacecraft was rolled out at the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, South China.
Tianzhou-3 will mark the fourth of 11 missions for construction of China’s three-module space station, which is called Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace”).

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has created the Academic Block-Chain Documents (ABCD) software.
CBSE has collaborated with the Centre of Excellence for Blockchain Technology of National Informatics Centre under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to create the software. It is a blockchain-based system to go paperless and deliver secure, transparent result certificates to students. In 2016, CBSE was the first to develop its own academic repository named ‘Parinam Manjusha’.

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NASA’s Psyche Mission is set to be launched next year. It will be the first spacecraft to study an asteroid that is rich in metals, but not in not rich in dust and ice.
The mission will be targeted to the Psyche asteroid that orbits the Sun in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. Observations from ground and telescopes shown that the asteroid, which is 280 kilometres wide, is largely made up of metals.

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From the images captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Timothy Hamilton have discovered an unusual gravitational lensing configuration.
Named as ‘Hamilton’s Object,’ it consists of two images of a spiral background galaxy in a fold configuration and a third resolved image of the same spiral galaxy. Together, they create a tangential point configuration.