How the Sun Affects Asteroids in Our Solar System
Asteroids embody the story of our solar system’s beginning. Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, which orbit the Sun on the same path…
Astrophysics
What The Heck Is a Neutron Star?
As many as one in every hundred stars in the Milky Way is of the ‘neutron’ variety. These are objects…
What are the interacting galaxies?
Interacting galaxies are galaxies whose gravitational fields result in a disturbance of one another. An example of minor interaction is…
Can you jump the information bar to travel faster than light?
According to a new hypothesis carried out in a research by the University of Göttingen, it is opening the debate…
Mega-Comet Will Get Close in 2031
A mega-comet – potentially the largest ever discovered – is heading from the Oort Cloud towards our direction. Estimated to…
Astronomers discover disk deformation of near-Earth!
Black hole Variations in light caused by an X-ray burst at 9,600 light-years from us have caught the attention of…
G11.2-0.3, a circularly symmetric supernova remnant containing a dense, rotating dead star at its center
When a massive star collapses, the outer layers of the star are destroyed in an extremely energetic explosion. Depending on the…
Astronomers capture for the 1st time white dwarf star “turning on and off”
For the first time, astronomers have spotted a white dwarf star “turning on and off” quickly. Located about 1,400 light-years…
Lords of the rings
There are actually four planets in our solar system with rings, although some of the ring systems are so faint…
Learning galaxies
Interaction between galaxies Stars within a galaxy do not collide because the distance between them is 100,000 to millions of…