Monthly Archive: April 2016
This time-lapse video contains a collection of images taken from the International Space Station (ISS) in March this year. The images show Venus rising above the Indian Ocean, beautiful dance of Aurora Australis and...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile, scientists have snapped a new image of a protoplanetary disk around a young star, TW Hydrae. TW Hydrae represents the most convenient star...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has collected a lot of data about Saturn, a planet of massive storms. Many of them cover the area of approximately 100 miles and last about eight days.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft sent a new image of Pluto’s surface that shows a new ice fracture in a form of a spider. Namely, they have found the icy structure on Pluto’s surface that...
This time-lapse video consists of images taken from the various locations in South Dakota and Wyoming. The photographies were captured by an astrophotographer Randy Halverson during the last year.
This time-lapse video represents a collection of images captured from different locations in New Zealand. An astrophotographer, Elvis Pestana, took those images with a Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 17-40mm f/4L.
The Hubble Space Telescope reveals the densest area of stars in our galaxy – the star cluster of the Sagittarius constellation in the center of the Milky Way. The massive star cluster is located...
In the project known as the “Frontier Fields”, scientists combine using multiple telescopes for long observations to discover more galaxy clusters than we know so far. Using three different telescopes: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory,...
Scientists have found a triple-star system, with a planet that resembles Jupiter. The considers the system rare because it is the third time they have discovered a stable planet in such system. The planet...
The Rosetta spacecraft still orbits Comet 67/P after The Philae landing. It has taken a new image of Comet 67/P while was 200 miles away.
The following time-lapse video shows the Milky Way as seen from Utah, the USA on March 12th, 2016. The images were taken by an astrophotographer Eric Benedetti with his Nikon D7000 camera.
A new study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, revealed that mounds on Mars that are more than a mile high are products of sharp wind and climate change. The most well-known crater on Mars,...
This video shows us the footage of Jupiter’s latest impact captured by an amateur astronomer from Austria. We can see a tiny flash of light that enters Jupiter’s atmosphere. Scientists are not sure whether...