414 YEARS AGO, GALILEO REVOLUTIONIZED ASTRONOMY
At the beginning of the 1600s, a new instrument began to propagate in Europe: the telescope. This new invention, thanks…
Astronomy
A Lion in Orion
A deep exposure shows the famous dark indentation that looks like a horse’s head, visible just left and below center,…
Can there be a more habitable planet than Earth? Well, yeah and we’ve already found it
Could there be a world even more suitable for life than ours, given the assumption that everything we know always…
Kemble’s Cascade of Stars
This line of stars is real. A little too faint to see with the unaided eye, Kemble’s Cascade of stars…
Wavelength Sensitivity of Hubble, Webb, Roman, and Other Observatories
Planets, stars, galaxies, and other objects in space give off a wide range of visible and invisible forms of light….
Which sky has the least luminous pollution in the world?
Mountain peaks, islands or deserts: these remote places are the typical places where nowadays are the main astronomical observatories. For…
Uranus Is Leaking Gas Into Space Every 17 Hours
Uranus is an odd planet with a funny name. Scientists have found that it spins on an unusual axis, which…
Newly Discovered ‘Mini’ Supermassive Black Hole Is Among The Smallest Ever Found
Amongst the most perplexing are supermassive black holes, millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun. Since black…
Ironing out the interiors of exoplanets
The discovery of more than 4,500 extra-solar planets has created a need for modelling their interior structure and dynamics. As…
THE COLLISION BETWEEN THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY AND THE MILKY WAY.
Every one of you in your life will surely have had a chance to admire a picture of the Andromeda…