Monthly Archive: March 2017
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have spotted an unusually large cosmic explosion, coming from an unknown source. The explosion has appeared in a faint galaxy that is 10.7 billion years away from our...
Using the ESO’s Very Large Space Telescope, scientists have detected newborn stars in a weird environment of powerful winds from a supermassive black hole. The black hole that expels two jets of gas and...
In the beginning of April, we can look at the western horizon and watch Mercury after sunset. During the first part of the month, a little higher from Mercury, we can find Mars. During...
In the constellation of Pisces, scientists have detected the purest and the most massive brown dwarf, also known as SDSS J0104+1535. The newly found dwarf star is 250 times purer than the Sun, consisting...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft prepares to make its fifth flyby over the cloud tops of Jupiter. Scientists are excited to get more new details about the big gas giant and its features.
This time-lapse video shows amazing Aurora Borealis in its captivated dance across the night sky over Kurjenrahka National Park, Finland. The video is created by Timo Oksanen Productions on March 22, this year.
The following time-lapse video contains the images of the Milky Way taken from the closeness of Mount Teide on the island Tenerife. Mount Teide is actually an active volcano in the Canary Islands. The...
Thankfully to its convenient position, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has made impressive images of Martian clouds shaped by gravity waves. Namely, its position in the Gale Crater enabled the rover to captured the clouds...
Using the NASA/ ESA Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have captured the closest star formation of our planet – the Orion Nebula. They use visual and near-infrared data to get this stunning image of the...
Periodic comet 41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák is discovered in 1858 by astronomer Horace Tuttle. During the second part of March, it will travel through constellation Ursa Major to Draco. It will be closer to our planet on...
By using NASA’s Swift satellite, scientists have managed to map a star’s ‘circle of death’ for the first time. Namely, the star 13-times-size of the Sun caught in a death spiral to the black...
In this video, Trace Dominguez from DNews explains why seven newly found Earth-size exoplanets in TRAPPIST-1 are not actually habitable. He helps us understand a difference between the planets in the habitable zone and...
The following time-lapse video shows the Milky Way with a several thousand years old Baobab tree as a background. This magnificent view was captured from Ruaha National Park in Tanzania.
Using the ESO’s Very Large Space Telescope, scientists have found out that dark matter was less influential in the formation of the first galaxies in the early universe than today. On the other hand,...
The following video shows the images of four supernovas remnants that were captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The images display remnants of Tycho’s supernova, G 292.0+1.8, 3C58 and the Crab Nebula.
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have made a detailed image of supernova W49B. They also assume a black hole that has appeared during the explosion is the youngest one in our...