The Road to Launch and Beyond for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has safely arrived at its launch site in French Guiana, on the northeastern…
Astronomy
THE BLUE PLANET
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have revealed that the real light color of Exoplanet “HD 189733b” is…
Mega-Comet Will Get Close in 2031
A mega-comet – potentially the largest ever discovered – is heading from the Oort Cloud towards our direction. Estimated to…
Ghosts in the Cepheus constellation
This image brings us different objects present in the direction of the constellation Cepheus, the Cepheus. One is the Iris…
Astronomers discover disk deformation of near-Earth!
Black hole Variations in light caused by an X-ray burst at 9,600 light-years from us have caught the attention of…
This spooky looking asteroid attended the Halloween party six years ago!
On October 31, 2015, asteroid 2015 TB145 transited 486,000 km from the Earth’s surface, about 1.27 times the distance that…
What the giant James Webb telescope will see that Hubble can’t
The $10 billion instrument, half the size of a 737 airplane and replete with gold-coated mirrors, will orbit 1 million…
G11.2-0.3, a circularly symmetric supernova remnant containing a dense, rotating dead star at its center
When a massive star collapses, the outer layers of the star are destroyed in an extremely energetic explosion. Depending on the…
In the sky ghosts exist, but they are not scary!
Mirach’s Ghost is in fact very little scary and due its name solely to its hazy appearance when viewed through…
A jewel box in the skies of the southern hemisphere
This is one of the names by which NGC 4755 is known, a splendid open cluster in the constellation of…