The shock wave and material ejected during the death of a star create entire bubbles of…
Astronomical Objects
Saturn is 95 times heavier than Earth, but it does not sink in water due to…
The object is long, like a cigar, moves at high speed in an uncharacteristic orbit, is…
Asteroid 2015 PDC is on a collision course with Earth. An asteroid with a diameter of…
The complete occlusion of the Sun and the onset of darkness lasted about two minutes. The…
They formed together. But they will never die together since the probability of having the same…
Wouldn’t having two sunrises and two sunsets every day be great? This is precisely what happens…
This month’s full moon will occur on October 28 at 20:24 GMT. This will be the…
The Draconid meteor shower is an annual astronomical event that occurs between October 6 and 10.…
Telescopes around the world have recorded about 28,000 near-Earth asteroids, and increasing detections are expected in…
Above the Earth’s ozone layer, which protects us from ultraviolet radiation. These are the Van Allen…
If the diameter of the Sun were reduced to 30 cm, the width of Mercury would…
Binary stars make up about half of all the stars in the galaxy. The TESS telescope…
In a direct collision, Apophis would leave behind an impressive impact crater up to 5.1 kilometers…
The sustained wind detected by ESA’s Cluster mission is slowly escaping from Earth’s plasmasphere – the…
The Earth, our native planet, hides many natural wonders and unique places that impress with their…
The strongest recorded Marsquake was not due to an asteroid impact but due to tectonic forces…
Chinese scientists claim that the Earth’s solid inner core has almost stopped rotating and may be…
With the beginning of the space age, people ceased to be idle observers of the Moon.…
Wet Moon, jade rabbit, Cheshire Moon, and other manifestations of the Earth’s satellite in people’s eyes.…
On the Moon, moonquakes can reach magnitudes of up to 5.5 on the Richter scale. (An…
Scientists have recorded fluctuations in the Earth’s magnetosphere that shouldn’t have happened. An international team of…
The Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334, Bear Claw Nebula, or Gum 64) is a vast region…
Its central star is one of the hottest known, with a surface temperature of over 250,000…
The open star cluster Pismis 24 in the Scorpius nebula NGC 6357 is approximately 8,000 light-years…
About 5,500 light-years from Earth lies a “cluster of clusters” of young stars, including many hot,…
The solar wind removes the remnants of the atmosphere from Mars. But the Moon resists the…
Billions of years ago the Moon actually had an atmosphere. The ancient lunar atmosphere was thicker…
The gas layer surrounding the Earth extends up to 630,000 km, which is 50 times the…
8,100 stars formed a 9.5 light-year-long spire of cold gas. Among them is the double star…