Tagged: astronomy

– Granted it’ not the Big Bang explosion, but if you are interested in astronomy and the powerful forces in space, then you’ll appreciate every image from cosmos. Our telescopes give us the opportunity to see and admire the best of our Universe has to...

– If your name is Steve, then you’ve got reason to feel a little more special now. Amateur astronomers have discovered a new type of atmospheric phenomenon and it has been named ‘Steve”. ‘Steve’ is a band of ghostly lights clearly visible from East to...

– In the year 774 A.D, people witnessed something strange in the skies over Britain. An old English text reveals a “red crucifix” was visible in the sky when Mercians were fighting men from Kent. At the time, people could only explain this extraordinary event...

– Astronomers have discovered a giant object lurking at the edge of our solar system. Its name is DeeDee and it’s a very cold and distant world . No, it’s not Planet 9. Nevertheless, it’s a still a very interesting discovery because the object may...

The Sun is both our life bringer and destroyer. On April 23rd (only two days ago), a dark filament of magnetism on the Sun exploded. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory monitored the event. A new analysis shows that debris from the explosion will not hit Earth,...

– Saturn’s moon Titan, is one of the most interesting places in our solar system. Not only is it the only is the only extraterrestrial body known to support stable liquid on its surface, but it also has large islands that disappear and later re-appear....

Five large moons and at least 22 small moons orbit Uranus, but probably the strangest of them is Miranda. It is a small moon but its surface is really amazing. Miranda, which reveals a complex geologic history, is one of the strangest phenomena in our...

A second Great Spot has been discovered on Jupiter by a team of astronomers of University of Leicester. The spot is created by the powerful energies from Jupiter’s polar aurorae. Dubbed the ‘Great Cold Spot’, it has been observed as a localized dark spot, up...

– Many galaxies in the Universe, like for example our Milky Way consist of hundreds of billions of stars. We might think our Milky Way is large, but it’s a rather small galaxy compared to other galaxies. Milky Way is ‘only’ 100,000 light years in...

A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. Astronomers believe this source likely originates from some sort of destructive event, but may be of a variety that scientists have never seen before. The...