One of the strangest things in the cosmos might be us. Among the thousands of planets known to be orbiting around other stars, a planet with Earth’s same size and similar distance from its star has yet to be found. This is likely due to the technical difficulty of finding such a sister planet, since […]
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The Hubble telescope showed the brightest star Sirius A and its faint, tiny stellar companion Sirius B together.
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced a image of Sirius A and its faint companion Sirius B, two stars in our night sky. At the center of the image is the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius A.To the bottom left we can see the tiny dot of Sirius B, which would’ve gone […]
Is the discrepancy in the Hubble constant calculation not a fluke?
The Hubble Space Telescope has in 2019 provided data that significantly reduces the chance that the current expansion rate of the Universe, as measured by Hubble, does not match the expected rate based on conditions from shortly after the Big Bang over 13 billion years ago.The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized the way we […]
Parker Solar Probe headed toward the Sun, performing a Venus flyby.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe zoomed past Venus on Aug. 21, using the planet’s gravity to aim toward a record-setting series of flights around the Sun that start next month. The spacecraft was moving at a speed of 15 miles per second, and passed 2,487 miles above the Venusian surface as it curved around the […]
In 2008, hubble discovered the youngest and most luminous galaxy in the early universe.
In 2008,a massive cluster of yellowish galaxies appears to have been caught in a spider web of eerily distorted background galaxies, in an image taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The gravity of the cluster’s trillion stars functions as a cosmic “zoom lens,” bending and magnifying the […]
Hubble has captured the image of a massive cluster Abell 3322.
Have you ever wondered what lies beyond our galaxy and our solar system? Well, one of the most fascinating discoveries made by the Hubble Space Telescope is massive cluster Abell 3322, a massive galaxy cluster located in the constellation Pictor, around 2.6 billion light-years away, in which the galaxy 2MASX J05101744-4519179 basks in the […]
Are Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Connected to the Solar Cycle?
Astronomers have made a remarkable discovery – a connection between Neptune’s shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle. This cycle, which is marked by the waxing and waning of the Sun’s magnetic fields, drives solar activity.The link between Neptune and solar activity is especially interesting because Neptune is in the distant reaches of our […]
The collaborative XRISM mission of JAXA/NASA and ESA and its objectives.
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (Krizz-em)! Scheduled for launch in August 2023, this collaborative mission between JAXA, NASA, and ESA will be studying the gas in galaxy clusters, the chemical enrichment of the universe, and extreme physics around accreting supermassive black holes. The mission consists of two parts: XRISM’s Resolve instrument, which will be […]
Aditya-L1 The first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun.
India has been at the forefront of space exploration and is all set to launch Aditya L1 – its first ever space based mission to study the Sun. The mission will be launched in a halo orbit around the Lagrange Point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, located at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers […]
Remembering the Mars Phoenix Lander 15 Years Later.
August 2008 marked 15 years since the Mars Phoenix Lander completed its three-month mission studying Martian ice, soil, and atmosphere. The mission was a success, providing groundbreaking insights into the potential for life on the Red Planet.The main objectives of the mission were to search for evidence of a habitable zone, study the history of […]
