Category Archives: Astronomy

The InSight Mars lander’s ultra-sensitive seismometer is protected from the elements by a wind and a dome-shaped heat shield. The instrument, provided by the French space agency, detected three major earthquakes in the past month. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech On September 18, the 1,000th day of the InSight Mars, or ground, lander on the surface […]

A galaxy a billion light-years from Earth is pouring out copious amounts of infrared light, the hallmark of a furious starbirth. It’s already pretty cool, but it’s better: As light from this galaxy passes through the Universe, it passes through a massive cluster of galaxies that warp it, amplifying its brightness, repeatedly cloning and twisting […]

The breathtaking Northern Lights and Venus soaring above the rocky horizon of the Moon are just a few of the incredible subjects featured in this year’s “Astronomy Photographer of the Year” winning images. year. 24 Sep 2021 11:00 AM by ePHOTOzine | Competitions © Shuchang Dong – ‘Astronomy Photographer of the Year 13’ Photographer Shuchang […]

Many people like to admire the night sky, especially when it is clean and full of a variety of light points. But not everyone recognizes what they see in the sky – perhaps the most famous constellations are the first to be reported, for example the one known as Cruzeiro do Sul. Is that bright […]

For 50 years, researchers have struggled to explain one of Jupiter’s lingering mysteries: Why is its upper atmosphere so hot? Based on the intensity of sunlight Jupiter receives, its highest levels should be -100 degrees Fahrenheit (-73 degrees Celsius). Instead, they sizzle at around 800 F (426 C). One hypothesis held that Jupiter somehow generates […]

[imagesource: Nicolas Rolland and Martin Pugh] Is the universe looking at us or are we looking at the universe? Anyway, it feels like this smiley in space is trying to tell us something. These are just a few of the things that might come to mind after seeing the outstanding photographs for this year’s Astronomical […]

If you were to bet on a star against a black hole, you would bet on the black hole to win every time. Corn How? ‘Or’ What he wins tells us a lot. Your standard problem stellar mass black hole (one with, say, 5 to 100 times the mass of the mass of the Sun) […]

Artist’s impression of Mars in the distant past with Earth-like surface water. Image: NASA Earth Observatory / Joshua Stevens; NOAA’s National Satellite, Data and Environmental Information Service; NASA / JPL-Caltech / USGS; Graphic design by Sean Garcia / Washington University) The habitability of Mars and other exoplanets orbiting a star’s habitable zone depends on a […]

A sparkling approach Aptly named after the son of the Sun god in Greek mythology, Phaethon has an orbit of 524 days which brings him down to just 0.14 astronomical units – where 1 AU is the average distance between Earth and the Sun – from our star. , well in the orbit of Mercury. […]

In just under a month, NASA will launch an ambitious mission through the asteroid belt and into Jupiter’s orbit. The spacecraft will not visit Jupiter, however: it will fly over several asteroids that share an orbit with the giant planet, seeking to investigate these fossils from the early days of the solar system. This mission […]