Monthly Archive: October 2014
Astronomers have discovered a red giant star that swallowed one of its closest planets. Researchers, who specialize in stellar evolution, have long been familiar with the fact that the inner planets have been always...
This video contains beautiful images of Andromeda galaxy. This selection of images is produced with the help of contributors of Amateur Astrophotography Ezine.
Since 2005, ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has been orbited around the Venus and gathering a data about its unique atmosphere. Its parameters have appeared much more strange than expected. There are extremely fast winds...
After ten months, NASA’a MAVEN spacecraft has reached Mars and starts sending the data about Mars’ atmosphere. It is assumed that billions years ago, Mars had a hospitable atmosphere that could warm Mars and...
According to the criteria that define the group of planets, International Astronomical Union decided in 2006 that Pluto does not belong into it. Since that, Pluto lost its status as a planet and has...
In the following video, Dr. Linda Spilker, a Cassini Project scientist, talks about the amazing findings made by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft ten years ago. It was the first men made object that goes into...
What are the characteristics of the black holes? During the years of observing them, the astronomers came up with these amazing facts about the black holes. Watch the following video in order to find...
The following video represents the model of the Universe, as we know it today. We can easily comprehend where in the Milky Way our place is, but when it comes to other clusters of...
Whether we are travelling by car or sitting by our computer, we are all travelling constantly through the Universe. We are all moving very fast and travelling large distances through the space. But, what...
The following video shows how the space station, navigating by the Automatic Identification System sygnal from the sinking ship, rescues its survivor.
After detecting about 500 planets in our galaxy orbiting around their stars, astronomers have found the planet which orbits a star of extragalactic origin. This star is about 2000 light years far away from...
This video contains the most beautiful and popular images of various nebulas made by Space Telescope Hubble during the last couple of years.
The following video shows us how tectonic processes had changed the shape of Earth’s continents during the ages and how they operate today. The activities of this geological process that had taken place long...
The following video gives us an overview of a night sky during October 2014, from the northern hemisphere. This overview shows the morning and evening planets, their significant movements, following by visible constellations and...
This video displays the picture of the universe based on a “dark matter” model. This model provides us with the best explanations for numerous questions we have today, about our universe. For example: Is...