This Hubble Image Reveals an Optical Illusion Known as Gravitational Lensing
This video displays a phenomenon called gravitational lensing that amplifies the light coming from the background galaxies.
Monthly Archive: August 2015
A Binary Black Hole Has Been Found Inside Nearest Quasar
In the Markarian 231 galaxy, scientists found two supermassive black holes, orbiting around each other. They predict that black holes will continue their dance in the following 100,000 years until they finally collide.
Planets, Constellations and Events in the September Night Sky
At the beginning of the month, we can look for Saturn in the southwestern sky after sunset. Early in the morning, we can see a beautiful duet of Mars and Venus rising in the...
New Findings About Enceladus’s Ocean Raised Hopes for Terrestrial Life
Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, hides a liquid ocean beneath its surface that baffles scientists for years. According to a new theory, they believe that Enceladus has a ‘fluffy’ core, the core compounded of boulders and...
New Image of Ceres Shows a Tall, Conical Mountain
In this video, we can see the latest images of Ceres’ Surface captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. The image that reveals a conical mountain on Ceres was captured from a distance of 1,470 km...
Twin Jet Nebula – the Cosmic Butterfly
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured beautiful nebula, known as the Butterfly Nebula, Minkowski’s Butterfly, and the Twin Jet Nebula. This bipolar nebula has been formed from a binary star system that is nearing...
The Ancient Mars Was, in Fact, the Blue Planet
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has found evidence that Mars once had water. It explores the Mount Sharp region of Mars, where it discovered a high percentage of silica and hydrogen content, just a meter below...
The Final Flyby of Dione, Saturn’s Moon
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured a new image of Dione, one of the Saturn’s moons when making the last flyby. According to scientists, the main goal of Dione’s observation is an exploration of its...
‘Ghost Particles’ Come from the Earth’s Interior
This video explains what ‘ghost particles’ or neutrinos are and how they are created. Scientists from Italian underground laboratory revealed that these mysterious, tiny particles are formed in the Earth’s interior, far deeper than...
The Milky Way, Seen from Northern California’s Coast
This time-lapse video represents a compilation of images captured from the King Range National Conservation Area on northern California’s coast.
The Center of the Milky Way Is a Mysterious Place
A new image of the Milky Way captured by X-ray satellite XMM-Newton reveals central region of our galaxy full of remnants of death stars and clouds of gas and dust. The galactic center that...
Aurora Australis in August Sky
This video represents a compilation of images of Aurora Australis, taken by International Space Station on August 15 and 16th this year. The Southern Lights are captured while dancing in multiple colors in the...
How to Survive Martian Atmosphere
This video explores scenario in which humans would struggle to survive on Mars. The Martian atmosphere is completely different from ours, and the life giving substance, oxygen, is present only in traces. Moreover, humidity...
A New Look at the Fractured Surface of Saturn’s Moon, Dione
NASA’s Cassini mission is nearing its end, and it surprises us once more with these beautiful images of Saturn’s moon, Dione. The new image was taken from a distance of 68,000 miles from Dione....
The Remnants in the Kuiper Belt Might Be from the Fifth Gas Giant Planet
Icy rocks, grouped into a cluster in the Kuiper Belt, have baffled scientists for years. It is considered that the cluster, known as ‘kernel’, consists of primordial debris from the big gas planet that...
Exploring Venus
This video shows us retrospection of Venus’ exploration from its beginnings when NASA sent the first spacecraft on a mission to explore another planet in our Solar System. This spacecraft was Mariner 2 that...
