According to scientists, solar activity will decrease by 60% after 2030 and will introduce a ‘mini ice age’ to our planet. Valentina Zharkova, a Professor at Northumbria University, claims that these predictions have 97%...
NASA’s New Horizons mission is just one day away from its closest encounter with Pluto and astronomers have already found out that Pluto is larger than they previously thought. With its diameter of 1,473...
The Royal Observatory Greenwich organizes with Insight Investment and BBC Sky at Night Magazine the competition for the best astronomy photo for the seventh time. Submissions have already reached 2,700 entries from amateur and...
A new photo of Pluto reveals that the four dark spots, with each spread around about 300 miles, are placed on its far side that faces Charon. NASA’s New Horizons probe has been continuously...
Astronomers in Mexico are using the Event Horizon Telescope, the largest telescope that contains a whole network of antennas, spread throughout the Earth. They try to take an image of a black hole, or...
This video has been taken by International Space Station (ISS) while traveling inside a beautiful Aurora Borealis. This perfect view of the Northern Lights was recorded on April 27th.
Mars, our second closest neighbor after Venus, has a specific gravity and unique atmosphere. The Red Planet’s climate is specific by the storms of red dust. Scientists explain that energy from the Sun creates...
This new image released by NASA is created by using three different sources of data: X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, and optical data from the Digitized...
This video tries to answer many questions we still have about planet Venus, our closest neighbor. The video contains all interesting facts we now know about Venus such as orbit, its surface, temperature, atmosphere,...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured new images of the dwarf planet, Pluto. The images have shown a few equal dark spots along the dwarf planet’s equator. Every spot spreads around about 300 miles...
This video explains the differences between asteroids and comets, and shows us distinct types of asteroids. It also points out on their classifications to better understand the following list.
A black hole, 12 times larger than our Sun, from the constellation Cygnus, erupts suddenly after 26 years. On June 15th, a NASA satellite detected an X-ray nova, emerging from a binary star system...
This time-lapse video is a compilation of images taken by Joel Schat, an amateur astrophotographer. The images emerged from his journey through America’s Northwest.
Rosetta spacecraft has taken a new image of the comet 67P/ Churyumov – Gerasimenko that reveals 18 pits in its northern hemisphere. These pits are clustered in a few regions of the comet. Scientists...
In this interview, Mark Gee, a self-taught astrophotographer and award winning artist, speaks about the art of Astrophotography. His most famous video is Full Moon Silhouettes, which is, in fact, a real time video...
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