TNPSC Current Affairs April 28, 2018

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs April 28, 2018 (28/04/2018)

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Topic : General Administration, Latest Diary of Events

National Safety Council

NSCI Safety Awards for the year 2017 were recently awarded.

About the National Safety Awards:

The NSCI Safety Awards are much coveted national level Awards in the field of occupational safety, health and environment and are given in recognition for effective Safety Management System and excellent safety & health performance by the organizations in Manufacturing, Construction and MSME Sectors during the relevant assessment periods.

These Awards are adjudged and declared every year by the National Safety Council.

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Topic : New Inventions on Science and Technology, Latest Diary of Events

Resource Prospector mission

NASA has cancelled Resource Prospector Mission, a mission to assay the resources that may be available to humans on the moon.

About the Resource Prospector Mission:

The Resource Prospector mission would have sent a rover to the moon’s polar regions to learn about water and other deposits on and just beneath the lunar surface.

Significance of the mission:

Scientists know that water ice exists on the moon, but the Resource Prospector would have provided scientists with a more complete understanding of these deposits.

Such knowledge is crucial in expanding a human presence on the moon. Lunar ice can potentially be melted and split into oxygen and hydrogen, providing a local source of water, oxygen and rocket propellant.

Not only would this help make human activities more self-sustaining, but it would also dramatically reduce launch costs, because much of these vital resources could be produced on site.

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Topic : New Inventions on Science and Technology, Latest Diary of Events

Hubble captured first image of surviving companion to supernova

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first image of a surviving companion to a supernova, a compelling evidence that some supernovas originate in double-star systems.

Background:

Seventeen years ago, astronomers had witnessed a supernova go off 40 million light-years away in the galaxy called NGC 7424, located in the southern constellation Grus, the Crane

The image of the companion star was seen in the fading afterglow of that supernova, called SN 2001ig.

SN 2001ig is categorised as a Type IIb stripped-envelope supernova. This type of supernova is unusual because most, but not all, of the hydrogen is gone prior to the explosion.

About the Hubble Space Telescope:

The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope in space. NASA launched Hubble in 1990.

It was built by the United States space agency NASA, with contributions from the European Space Agency.

Hubble is the only telescope designed to be serviced in space by astronauts.

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Topic : Awards and Honours, Persons in News

Saraswati Samman

Gujarati poet, playwright and academic Sitanshu Yashaschandra has been selected for the 2017 Saraswati Samman for his collection of verses titled Vakhar.

About the award:

Saraswati Samman is the annual award given to an outstanding literary work in any Indian language mentioned in Schedule VIII of the Constitution and published in 10 years preceding the specified award year.

It is the highest recognition in the field of Indian literature in the country and carries a citation, a plaque and award money of ₹15 lakh.

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Topic : Latest International Events

Archaeologists find child sacrifice site in Peru

Archaeologists in Peru have found evidence of the biggest-ever sacrifice of children, uncovering the remains of more than 140 youngsters who were slain alongside 200 llamas as part of a ritual offering some 550 years ago, National Geographic announced in a study.

The site was located on top of a cliff facing the Pacific Ocean in La Libertad, a northern region where the Chimu civilization arose, an ancient pre-Columbian people who worshipped the moon.

The cliff is located just outside the northwestern coastal city of Trujillo, Peru’s third largest city which today has 8,00,000 inhabitants.