Tagged: astronomy

The risk is increasing that Earth will be hit by an asteroid from a meteor stream known as the Taurids, informed astronomers from the Czech Academy of Sciences, today (June 6, 2017). The team has analyzed 144 bolides – large meteors that explode in the...

In the 1980s, a group of astronomers noticed that galaxies are very unevenly distributed in space, with galactic superclusters separated by incredibly huge voids of visible ordinary matter. The Great Attractor is huge and perplexing astrophysical enigma. It is a gigantic concentration of matter spread...

A new gigantic planet that has the density of styrofoam was recently found by astronomers. The planet, officially called as KELT-11b, is orbiting very close to its host star in an orbit that lasts less than five days.The star is located 320 light years from...

Enceladus, the sixth moon of Saturn is a very interesting faraway, celestial object. Not long ago, researchers who studied Enceladus showed that plumes of vapor continuously escaping from cracks in the moon’s icy shell are rich in molecular hydrogen. It indicates that there are very...

For the first time, a team of astronomers led by SIfA PhD student Jane Kaczmarek, has detected a magnetic field associated with the Magellanic Bridge, a gaseous structure in the nearby Magellanic Clouds system. Visible by the naked eyes in the southern night sky, the...

A team of international astrophysicists led by the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered the source of the antimatter. Their study shows how most of the antimatter in the Milky Way forms. When antimatter, which is composed of antiparticles meets particles of ordinary matter, they...

– Astronomers have discovered a huge man-made bubble around Earth. So, how was it formed and why is it there? Humans have long been shaping Earth’s landscape, but now we’ve discovered that we have the potential to shape our near-space environment as well. The man-made...

– There is no doubt that a supernova is a real danger to life on Earth. What has so far been unclear, is how close the supernova must take place to destroy life on Earth. It is also important to understand how likely it it...

– Some years ago, astronomers discovered that our universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, implying that space is not empty, but instead filled with dark energy that pushes matter away. The Universe expands very slowly, and scientists are trying to determine what mysterious force...

– Did Earth once have a second Moon and if so, what happened to it? Did it vanish into open space? Did it collide with another moon? Was Earth formed as a result of this dramatic collision? Can Earth’s lost second satellite explain why our...