THE ICE GIANT
In addition to Jupiter and Saturn there are two ice cream giants, Uranus and Neptune, Uranus is one of the…
Astronomy
EUROPE – JUPITER’S MOON
It is among the four largest moons of Jupiter, with a diameter of 3121.6 km, being slightly smaller than Earth’s…
Great Red Spot on Jupiter :- the Largest Storm in the Solar System.
The Great Red Spot is a high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter (largest in the Solar System). It is…
Arcturus (α Bottis)
Arcturus (α Boötis) is the brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. With a visual magnitude of −0.05, it is…
Galaxy IC 1101
Of the 100,000 million galaxies in the observable universe, some had to be the largest. So far this is the…
Crown Australis under Namibian skies
Shadows are no less important than light ‘What a mess, what a medieval mess,’ Merlin would say. In this image…
Flows in the sky and rivers of stars
Those that approach the Milky Way look like skeins of wool. They’re really long streams of stars, like time boxes,…
A cosmic bag full of coal
Part of the Coal Bag Nebula seen up close Dark spots almost completely block a rich star field. The dark…
There is an Hamburger in the sky!
The sky is full of objects that have been called by astronomers with very strange names. For example, this item…
High-speed stars confirm relativity
General relativity tells us that light will be affected by gravity. This so-called space-time curvature has just been observed in…