An Overview of NASA’s Dawn Mission
Asteroid Belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, represents the area of our Solar System we know very little about. Destination of NASA’a Dawn mission is Vesta and Ceres, where Vesta, the brightest asteroid, has...
Monthly Archive: February 2015
Planets, Constellations, and Events in the March Night Sky
This month begins with Mars and Venus appearing as evening planets on the western horizon. In the southeastern sky, we can find Jupiter in its highest position. During the month, we can observe other...
How Big Is the Largest Known Star in Our Universe?
The term “big” in the Universe can mean anything, but only through comparison, we can comprehend what is really big in the space. This video sorts out the planets of our Solar System together...
Dramatic Change That Shaped Venus
This video explores physical conditions on Venus, the planet that was born similar to Earth and was made of the same substance. Comparing temperature, atmosphere, and surface of the both planets, Venus and Earth,...
Jupiter’s Red Spot Turns White
In this infrared image, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot appears white. It baffles scientists very long and according to a recent theory, this is, in fact, sunburn.
Volcanism on Mars
Scientists have discovered strong volcanic activity on Mars that hit the Red Planet at least 5 times repeatedly. These events change Martian surface forever, giving it such recognizable look full of craters and the...
Dawn Spacecraft Will Reach Ceres Soon
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft prepares orbiting Ceres on March 6, in its pursuit for water. Scientists assume that 30% of the mass of Ceres consists of water.
The Milky Way Seen from Tenerife
This time-lapse video is a collection of images captured by Martin Fechtner in April 2014. He took these astonishing photos on his trip to Tenerife.
Mars’ Magnetic Field Covers Only Its Few Regions
Scientists discovered that planet Mars carries only fragile parts of magnetic fields, covering a few regions of the planet. They speculate about the causes, which could weaken the Martian magnetic field. One of their...
Scientists Discover Alien Star Passed through Our Solar System
Astronomers from the University of Rochester, New York, found out an alien star, known as Scholz’s star, passed through the Oort Cloud 70.000 years ago. It came 5 times closer than Proxima Centauri, the...
The next Stage of the Rosetta Mission – ESA
This video shows Rosetta comet from the closest perspective with incredible details. The next stage of the Rosetta mission will go on during 2015 when scientists believe to be able to explore the environment...
The Strange Haze above Mars
The mysterious haze above Mars was captured by amateur astronomers for the first time, in 2012. Scientists are not sure whether this phenomenon is a huge bright cloud or Mars’ aurora. At this moment,...
The Weirdest Objects in Our Space
This video represents a selection of the most astonishing things in the Universe. The list begins with the planet 55 Cancri e, better known as “Diamond planet” and continues with Gliese 436 B or...
Astronomers Captured the Flower like Cometary Globule – “God’s Hand”
ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured the image of CG4 cometary globule or so-called “God’s Hand”. In fact, this space cloud has nothing in common with comets; It is made from gas and dust. The...
Why Do All Space Objects Rotate?
In this video, Trace Dominguez from DNews asks a question about the spinning as the unique trait of all the objects in our Universe. In searching for answers, he explores the ways in which...
The 10 Most Beautiful Galaxies
Our Universe has billions of galaxies. They differ from each other in shape and form. Every galaxy represents a unique collection of the stars, grouping and forming extremely beautiful patterns in our space.
Orbital Fluctuation That Changed Our Solar System
In the early beginnings of our Solar System, fluctuations of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s orbits initiate a cosmic chain reaction. Two planets orbited around the Sun with the “two-to-one resonance”, which means that Jupiter orbited...
In the Center of Our Earth Lies Another Core with a Different Polarity
Scientists from the University of Illinois examined the Earth’s inner core and found out a separate small core with a different polarity. This “inner-inner core” behaves differently from the core, as we know it.
