Monthly Archive: October 2015
Maciej Winiarczyk, an astrophotographer, captured these amazing pictures of the Milky Way and Northern Lights, and compiled them as time-lapse video. He took these miraculous images above the Loch More Lake in Caithness, Scotland.
Scientists on the Rosetta mission unexpectedly detected large quantities of oxygen around the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. One of the theories they have, explains that oxygen dates back to the formation period of the comet, and...
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has revealed a supermassive binary star system, which consists of two huge bright stars with only 7.5 million miles or 12 million km between their centers. Scientists suspect that they...
Since 2010, astronomers have not found any new globular cluster. However, new infrared images from VISTA reveal two new clusters of stars that have long remained unnoticed. It has happened because they are too...
A star with the mass of a several million times larger than of our Sun pass too close to a massive black hole that lies at the center of PGC 043234 galaxy. What happened...
On October 28th, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will dive into Enceladus’ liquid plumes to investigate and collect the evidence of its hidden ocean.
This video explains how and where to look for the bright triangle of the planets – Venus, Mars and Jupiter. From October 24th, this rare phenomenon will be visible just before dawn.
Even though a mysterious star, KIC 8462582, provokes a lot of questions and different opinions, many scientists do not rush to attribute alien causes to star’s oddity. The mysterious star has an irregular light...
In the southern sky, constellation of Pisces will be visible, while its closest neighbor, Aries constellation, can be observed in the eastern part of the sky. In the beginning of November, Mars and Venus...
This animated video shows XX Triangulum star with giant stellar spots evolving over a period of six earth years. The XX Triangulum star is 10 times the size of our Sun and is 1,500...
Collecting data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Kepler space observatory, scientists have created a theoretical model of our Universe that revealed that the more than 90% of habitable planets are expected to...
This video gives us detailed information about the Orionid meteor shower that happens during this week. It occurs due to passing by of Halley’s Comet. Even though we can see Halley’s Comet once in...
This video is a compilation of the latest facts about our Universe, its objects and features. The list starts with the discovery of giant water reservoir in space and continues with other incredible findings...
This time-lapse video displays the Milky Way in the night sky full of stars and their trails. The images were captured by a French astrophotographer, Mathieu Descombes.
In this video, we can see the city lights of our planet, fading away while the Earth reaches another day. The beauty of the dawn, when the night slowly makes a way to a...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured these outstanding images of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, which reflect a network of cracks and craters on its north pole. These pictures were taken during Cassini’s latest flyby, on October...
This video shows us Mangala Valles, an interesting area in Tharsis region that was once a field of volcanic activity. It is intersected by deep channels, through which flowed enormous amount of water, run...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has collected high-resolution images of Jupiter, linked together in this animated video that enables us to see the giant planet in the 4K Ultra HD format.