This is Garcux
Gacrux is a red star of apparent magnitude +1.63. It is the third brightest star in the Southern Cross constellation…
What is a Van Allen Radiation Belt?
Giant donut-shaped swaths of magnetically trapped, highly energetic charged particles surround Earth. James Van Allen, a physicist at the University…
5 Things You Need To Know About Dark Matter!!!
1. Dark matter is EVERYWHERE- Planets, stars, asteroids, galaxies – the things that we can actually see – constitute less…
Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself
Imagine if we could use strong electromagnetic fields to manipulate the local properties of spacetime—this could have important ramifications in…
A mysterious connection between the various forces in nature allows physicists to explore the quantum side of gravity
As far as physicists have been able to determine, nature speaks two mutually unintelligible languages: one for gravity and one…
ENCELEDUS- Saturn’s Sixth Largest Moon!!!
Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn. It is about 500 kilometers (310 mi) in diameter, about a tenth of…
NGC 3576 – Statue of Liberty Nebula
NGC 3576, also known as the Statue of Liberty Nebula and ESO 129-EN5, was discovered by John Herschel in 1834….
17 BILLION LAND
Astronomers studying data from the Kepler Space Telescope estimate that 17 percent of stars in the Milky Way galaxy have…
What is a Dwarf galaxy?
Dwarf galaxies are smaller celestial bodies, consisting of roughly a thousand to several billion stars, in contrast to the 200-400…
Galactic cannibalism – The Collision of Galaxies!
Galactic cannibalism refers to the process in which a large galaxy, through tidal gravitational interactions with a companion, merges with…