Sun Theory Announced in 2004 Confirmed
Seventeen years ago, astrophysicist J. Martin Laming put forward a theory about the sun: that the chemical composition of the faintest…
Astronomy
TOM 618, The monster
TON 618, a hyperluminous quasar, stands an astounding 10.4 billion light-years away in the far-flung reaches of the Canes Venatici…
The Siamese twins
The Siamese Twins, also known as the Butterfly Galaxies, are a pair of colliding unbarred spiral galaxies located in Virgo…
NGC 4151
NGC 4151 (also known as UGC 7166 and PGC 38739) is a spiral Seyfert galaxy, located at a distance of…
Reserve the prospective
From Earth there are five planets in the Solar System that are bright enough to be seen with the naked…
Bode’s Galaxy
Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode’s Galaxy) is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years…
GK Persei. a bright nova
A nova (latin for new) is the high and rapid increase in the brightness of a star. This term is…
Neutron Stars: The Densest Objects in the Universe
A neutron star is a cosmic object that forms after a supernova explosion. It is a degenerate star from neutron…
The multidisciplinary approach of astronomy
One of my favourite aspects about the subject of astronomy is that it inevitably leads one to examine other areas…
NGC 4622: Exploring the Backward Galaxy
Located within the Centaurus constellation, NGC 4622, commonly referred to as the Backward galaxy, is a face-on spiral galaxy free…