Astonishing Time-Lapse of the Milky Way
This beautiful time-lapse video represents a selection of images taken from Erinsville, Ontario, Canada. The photos were captured between 11 pm and 4 am on May 23rd and 24th, 2015.
Monthly Archive: June 2015
Close Encounter of Two Brightest Planets, Venus and Jupiter
During the month, we can observe two shiny planets, Venus and Jupiter, in their casual walk toward each other. They will be visible in the early evenings and will be easier to spot after...
25 Surprising Facts About Our Planet
This video represents carefully selected facts on planet Earth that can be surprising for many of us. One of these facts refers to the Earth’s inner core and its temperature, as well as the...
Saturn’s Outer Ring, Phoebe, Is 7000 Times Larger than Saturn
In 2009, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope found an outer Saturn’s ring, but scientists lacked data to prove it. Recently, scientists have discovered new data that confirm its existence and even reveal that the ring...
Formation of ‘Celestial Butterfly’ Nebula
The Very Large Telescope in Chile has captured a formation of a planetary nebula that takes butterfly-like shape with beautiful symmetrical wings. This formation of a nebula emerges from a dying, red, giant star,...
Ceres, Seen from a Distance of 5,700 Km
New images of Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, were captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. Scientists used 80 images of Ceres to create this animation. The images, used in this video, are...
Hubble Can Detect Extraterrestrial Life by Studying Atmosphere of Exoplanets
For scientists, there is no question about terrestrial life; they are sure that alien life exists somewhere in our Universe. They only wonder if there is alien life close to our planet. In this...
Beauty of the Leo Triplet Captured by Hubble
This video shows us a peculiar galaxy, Messier 66, which is a member of the largest triade called the Leo Triplet. Its unusual shape is influenced by the gravitational pull of Messier 65 and...
Planets, Dwarf Planets and Asteroids Visible in June 2015
At the beginning of the month, we can see Saturn very close to the Moon in the early evening. Pluto will also come close to the Moon, but it is still invisible. At the...
New Images of Comet 67P
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released new images of the Comet 67P/ Churyumov – Gerasimenko, taken by the Rosetta space probe. They depict the area of 4 km wide, full of ice, snow,...
Potato-Shaped Moons of Pluto
The New Horizons’ probe is nearing its end destination – Pluto – in July, this year. While scientists are wondering what New Horizons will find there, we already have the evidence that shows unusual...
The Milky Way Reflects on Grubensee, Germany
The following time-lapse video represents a selection of images captured from Grubensee, Brandenburg, Germany. These images were taken during beautiful spring nights in April and May, 2015.
Art and Space
In studying exoplanets, NASA’s infrared telescope called the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) is of enormous importance. Although astronomers have found more than 500 exoplanets, they are still too hard to study because of their...
Merging Galaxies
Although galaxies in our universe are distributed with a lot of vast space between them, from time to time, they come very close to each other and start merging. As a result, they form...
