Unraveling TON 618: The Universe’s Largest Black Hole
Supernovas, the most energetic events in the universe, result in the complete disruption of stars, but what about the largest…
Astronomy
We Finally Have The First Image of The Supermassive Black Hole at The Center of The Milky Way
Four and a half billion years ago, our pale blue dot was born in the rubble left over from the…
Venus, a mysterious planet
Venus is covered by a thick blanket of clouds that prevents direct observation of its surface. Most of the planet’s…
NGC 660: Unraveling Mysteries of Polar-Ring Galaxies
Positioned in the constellation Pisces, NGC 660 is an extraordinary polar-ring galaxy, lying an estimated 40 million light-years away from…
Big Bang: the beginning we know!
We’re still not sure why or even how this happened. We know nothing about what existed before the Big Bang….
The Cat Eye Nebula
The Cat’s Eye Nebula is a planetary nebula 3300 light-years away from Earth, visible in the constellation Draco. The nebula…
A snowman floating in space? Or maybe not?
At first glance it is not immediate to understand what we are observing, since the perspective of this image is…
Understanding Astronomy: AU, Light Year & Parsec Explained
In our day-to-day lives, we commonly use measurements like metres, centimetres, and kilometres. However, these units are less practical in…
Astronomers discover a rare ‘black widow’ binary, with the shortest orbit yet
The flashing of a nearby star has drawn MIT astronomers to a new and mysterious system 3,000 light years from…
It’s official, the Osiris Rex probe will visit the potentially dangerous asteroid Apophis!
Launched in 2016, the spacecraft reached the asteroid Bennu, from which it took a surface sample in 2020. Osiris Rex…