All about the Veli nebula
The Veil Nebula first formed about 8,000 years ago when an incredibly massive red giant star at least 20 times…
Astronomy
All about NGC 7009
NGC 7009 is a planetary nebula 4000 light years away from Earth, visible in the constellation Aquarius. It was one…
Talking about Dark Matter and Dark Energy
The visible universe—including Earth, the sun, other stars, and galaxies—is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons bundled together into atoms….
Dreaming in the sky
Imagine being in the time of the Ancient Romans and your dream is to become an archer in the service…
A new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf star
In recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them….
All about the Omega nebula
The official name of the Omega Nebula is Messier 17 region of the Milky Way galaxy, often shortened to M17….
The beauty of Galaxies
Galaxies do not usually remain isolated in space, but tend to unite in groups held together by the force of…
Mysterious Giant Radio Pulses From Pulsars Are Hundreds of Times More Energetic Than Previously Believed
A group led by scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, using coordinated observations of the Crab pulsar in…
New NASA Visualization Probes the Light-Bending Dance of Binary Black Holes
A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic pas de deux in a…
The Markarian Chain
The Markarian Chain is a subgroup of galaxies belonging to the Virgo Cluster, the largest galaxy cluster located in the…