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….
Astronomy
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…
Facts about the Kuiper Belt!!
• The Kuiper Belt could contain hundreds of thousands of icy bodies that range in size from small chunks of…
The Universe’s First Type of Molecule – Helium hydride!!!
The first type of molecule that ever formed in the universe was detected in space for the first time in…
The cosmic rose: The magnificent ❞𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗮❞
“The Rosette Nebula” (“Cadwell 49”) is an Emission Nebula located in the Constellation Monoceros. It is Located at Distance of…
Forget What You Heard: Jupiter Does Not Orbit The Sun
It’s so huge, in fact, that it doesn’t actually orbit the sun. Not exactly. With 2.5 times the mass of…
Celebrating telescopes
The year 2009 was celebrated by the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO as the International Year of Astronomy. It marked…
Pluto, The untold story
When I was a kid, I studied that there are 9 planets in our solar system, but this isn’t the…