By using data from Kepler and Spitzer telescopes, astronomers have discovered a tiny L-dwarf star, called W1906+40 with a giant storm the size of the Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. This L-dwarf has a temperature...
By using ESO’s Very Large Space Telescope, scientists have found a white dwarf galaxy that was born from the cosmic collision. Scientists believe that a collision with another galaxy had happened 360 million years...
Scientists finally found the answer about Ceres’ bright spots that puzzled them long ago. Namely, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has spotted the white, bright spots on Ceres in March this year. Since then there have...
This time-lapse video consists of various images taken in December this year. It shows an amazing view of our beautiful planet with magnificent Aurora Borealis.
The ESO’s Very Large Telescope has captured the glowing nebula RCW 34, also known as Gum 19. The nebula represents the region of young forming stars in the constellation Vela that is about 8,150...
During Pluto’s flyby, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured amazing images of Pluto’s Al-Idrisi mountains and Sputnik Planum’s plane. The images were taken from a distance of 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) and released on...
This time-lapse video consists of various images that portray different astronomical objects such as Orion Nebula, Andromeda Galaxy, the Moon eclipse, meteor shower, and the Milky Way. All images are taken by an award-winning...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Enceladus, Saturn’s most intriguing moon in its crescent phase on July 29th, 2015. The moon represents the most inspiring aspect for astrobiologists because of its subsurface ocean. This beautiful...
By using the LCOGT network of telescopes, astronomers have discovered a Neptune-sized exoplanet, which atmosphere has a blue hue. The planet is only 100 light-years distant from the Earth and orbits around a red...
Scientists from the University of Alberta (Canada) and the Max Planck Institute (Germany) made a computer model of Jupiter’s climate that explains its wild weather patterns. It also explains the unusual rotation of Jupiter’s...
This year, the Geminid meteor shower will reach its peak on December 13th and 14th, and stargazers can observe up to 120 meteors per hour. The shower will be better seen in the Northern...
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