Monthly Archive: July 2015
NASA confirms the discovery of three Earth-like planets in our closest neighborhood. A newly discovered planetary system contains 4 planets – 3 super-Earths and one giant planet, orbiting around a K – dwarf star...
NASA has revealed a new image that displays interesting phenomenon – graffiti-like red lines that stretch through the surface of Saturn’s moon, Tethys. Although scientists do not have an explanation for these strange lines,...
This video explores how sunlight affects asteroids and comets, thus influencing their paths. By studying asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collects data that help scientists understand how the Yarkovsky effect work and influence the...
A strange comet known as Comet 69P/Machholz makes astronomers think that comes from another solar system. According to them, the comet shows unusual characteristics such as the irregular shape of its orbit and strange...
The month begins with Saturn as the evening planet, which can be visible in the southwestern part of the sky. Constellations Lyra and Cygnus will be visible during this summer month. By using a...
Every year, in the last week of July /from 25th to 30th) we experience annual alpha Capricornid meteor shower. This video gives us more details on how and where to look for this beautiful...
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has revealed a haze that occasionally appears on Ceres’ mysterious bright spots. Scientists try out to find an answer for the appearance of the white spots and discovery of the haze...
NASA astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet, Kepler 452-b, in the constellation Cygnus that is 1,400 light-years away from our planet. Kepler 452-b is located in the habitable zone, which means that the temperature...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft continues sending images of Pluto and its surrounding. These images display two moons from Pluto’s family – Nix and Hydra – which we know so far as the two tiny...
This video explores the stars in our Universe. Akila Jeeson-Daniel, an Affiliate Postdoc at the University of Melbourne, explains what kinds of stars exist in our Universe and how their life cycles look like.
This time-lapse video represents a selection of photographs taken on July 10th and 11th, 2015, in the area of northern Texas. An astrophotographer Harley Grady makes this video available in 4K ULTRA HD resolution.
According to physicists, there are four fundamental forces that manifest in our Universe: strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, gravitational force, and electromagnetic force. However, electromagnetism is the force that we are often unaware...
This video explores various activities on our Sun, such as fiery loops, flares, and coronal mass ejections. It explains what has happened inside the Sun and how eruptions take place.
This video represents a simulation of NASA’s New Horizons’ flyover of Pluto’s terrain that reveals its icy mountains and frozen plains. We can see Pluto’s Norgay Montes (Norgay Mountains) and Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain)....
After years of hunting for an Earth-like planet outside of our Solar System, astronomers have discovered a Jupiter’s twin planet, orbiting around a Sun-like star, HIP 11915. This newly discovered planet has similar mass...
After a day NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made its flyby of Pluto, NASA releases brand new images of Pluto’s two moons – Charon and Hydra, and the astonishingly detailed picture of Pluto’s surface....