Aurora on Mars Is Visible by Naked Eye
A new study reveals that Mars also has aurora as our planet, which is in the visible range. The southern lights on Mars become brighter and more vivid when the intensity of solar eruptions...
Monthly Archive: May 2015
Wonders of Our Universe
This video leads us on a journey through our Solar System and further. Through sequences of astonishing images and beautiful music in the background, we can explore our Universe and its objects.
‘Green Rust’ Can Nurture the Life on Mars
Amy Shira Teitel from DNews explains where on Mars scientists are looking for the signs of extraterrestrial life and why. She speaks about the Gale Crater and NASA’s Mars Curiosity mission, which focuses on...
Planets, Constellations, and Events in June’s Night Sky
This video is a monthly guide for every stargazer on a northern hemisphere. It points out at constellations, planets, deep-sky objects and events during the following month. The month begins with Jupiter and Venus...
A New Picture of a Two-Sided Nebula Has Been Released
Gum 19 or better known as the two-sided nebula is 22,000 light-years away from our planet, settled in Vela constellation. This breathtaking image is captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
The Milky Way Seen from Outer Space
This video shows our night sky from the International Space Station. NASA’s astronaut, Terry Vrits, shares with us this amazing view of the Milky Way.
A New ‘Weird’ Star, Named Nasty 1, Has Been Found in the Milky Way
The Hubble Space Telescope has recently discovered a new star that rapidly ages. The star is encircled by a huge disc of gas, which is two trillion miles in its diameter. According to scientists,...
Astronomers Have Spotted the Brightest Galaxy in the Universe – NASA
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft has detected the brightest galaxy we have ever known in our Universe. This galaxy is billions of light-years away from us and orbits around the extremely large...
Milky Way Time-Lapse
This time-lapse video shows the night sky and the Milky Way near Butler, Missouri on May 18-19th, 2015. A group of astrophotographers from Dark Sky Site Club has captured these beautiful images.
New Supervoolcano Has Been Detected on Mars
ESA’s Mars Express has taken high-resolution images of Siloe Patera, an area of Martian surface rgar is composed of two craters. Scientists believe that it could be the remnants of Mars’ supervolcano, which reminds...
Captivating Beauty of Medusa Nebula
Although extremely dim and hard to observe, Medusa Nebula’s new image with a lot of details has been taken by the Very Large Telescope in Chile. The Nebula is located in the constellation of...
A Magnetar in the Center of the Milky Way Behaves Strangely
Near the supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy, scientists found a magnetar, called SGR 1745-2900. Recently, they have discovered that the magnetar, which is, in fact, a neutron star with a...
German Scientists Have Discovered a Mysterious Rock on Comet 67P
Scientists from Rosetta’s OSIRIS team have spotted a so-called ‘balancing rocks’ on the comet 67P/ Churyumov – Gerasimenko. They discovered a group of three boulders in the Aker region of the comet. The biggest...
The Mars Rover Opportunity Finished the First Martian Marathon
NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity started its journey 11 years ago. On March 24th, 2015, it finished its first Martian Marathon, which every step was a search for new discoveries. Its mission is to gather...
Breathtaking Astrophotographies from ESO
In the following video we can see a selection of amazing images captured by amateur astrophotographers and ESO staff. They are all members of Flickr community called “Your ESO Pictures”.
First View of Pluto’s Moons
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has taken an amazing photo of Pluto’s tiniest moons, Kerberos and Styx. These images were captured from a distance of 55 million miles away. In July this year, NASA’s New...
