Monthly Archive: June 2017
During the following month, Saturn and Jupiter appear as the evening planets. We can observe Jupiter in the southwestern sky and Saturn in the southern sky. Just before dawn, Venus rises as the morning...
The following time-lapse video shows us an amazing view of the sunset as seen from space. The video is captured from the International Space Station (ISS) on June 27th, 2017.
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile, astronomers have caught this stunning new image of the brightest star in our sky, Betelgeuse. The star is located in the Orion constellation and...
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have captured this spectacular image of two merging galaxies that form ARP 299. The process of merging activates the huge cycle of star formation. As a...
A team of scientists has studied the Gale crater on Mars and published the results in Science journal. Namely, they have found that Mars once had a lake that was similar to those on...
The following time-lapse video consists of images of the northern lights while dancing in the night sky above Quebec, Canada. The video is created by Frédérick Beaupré, an astrophotographer.
The following time-lapse video captures the Milky Way during the overnight flight between Baltimore and Phoenix. The video is created by an astrophotographer Aryeh Nirenberg.
Studying the region beyond Neptune, better known as the Kuiper Belt, a team of scientists from the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) has concluded that planet ten might exist at the...
The following time-lapse video shows the Milky Way as seen from Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, California.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have detected a red supergiant star that ends up as a black hole without turning into a supernova. This phenomenon may help them better understand why so many...
The following video made a summary of Juno’s mission to Jupiter. It shows us the best shots NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured and lists the highlights of the mission.
This Monday, NASA announced 219 new exoplanets that are potential candidates for terrestrial life. However, they also reveal ten of them that lies in the habitable zone and have the right temperature that may...
The following time-lapse video shows an amazing view of the northern lights as seen from Southern Alberta. The video is captured by an astrophotographer Justin Pitre on May 28, this year.
The following time-lapse video contains the images of the Milky Way as rising above Zion National Park in Utah. The video is created by an astrophotographer, Aryeh Nirenberg.
Using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST), scientists have captured a new three gigapixel image that reveals a huge cloud of gas and dust that gives birth to new stars. The cloud contains three nebulas,...
By observing Perseus Molecular Cloud, scientists have concluded that every star formation begins in pairs. They also believe that this fact can be a reason for dinosaur extinction.