What is an ocean planet?
Ocean planet is a type of terrestrial planet that contains a substantial amount of water as hydrosphere at its surface…
Astronomy
Pleiades: anatomy of a star cluster
The Pleiades also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, are an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type…
Ganymede is back!
It has been over twenty years since we had received such a close-up image of the surface of Ganymede, Jupiter’s…
There is a new Earth?
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovered an Earth-like planet circling a nearby star within the Goldilocks zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f…
Liquid water on exomoons of free-floating planets
The moons of planets that have no parent star can possess an atmosphere and retain liquid water. Astrophysicists at LMU…
Supermassive Black Holes Affect The Universe Beyond The Bounds of Their Own Galaxies
Even with masses equal to billions of suns, these gargantuan objects are still mere pinpricks in the vast galactic core,…
Talking about Trappist 1
Over the past three years you have surely heard of Trappist 1, the star that became famous when, in February…
The Fried Egg Galaxy
NGC 7742 (also known as UGC 12760) is a spiral galaxy, located at a distance of around 72 million light…
What is the Supernova Nucleosynthesis?
Supernova nucleosynthesis is the nucleosynthesis of chemical elements in supernova explosions. In sufficiently massive stars, the nucleosynthesis by fusion of…
HXMM01 starburst galaxy
1HERMES S250 J022016.5-060143 (and also known as HXMM01) is a starburst galaxy, located at a distance of around 11 billion…