Monthly Archive: December 2016
The conspiracy theorists have taken a new NASA’s image of Mars to prove that aliens once existed on Mars. Namely, they consider three tall buildings on Mars as towers of its ancient alien civilization.
A team of astronomers from the University of Florida has discovered a so-called hyper-starburst galaxy that gives the birth to an incredibly huge number of stars. The galaxy produces each year a lot of...
Using the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN), scientists at first have thought that they have detected a superluminous supernova. However, it turns out that they have discovered a supermassive black hole tearing...
In this video, Julian Huguet from DNews tries to answer the question: How do galaxies form? He explains the two models scientists have discovered by studying different types of galaxy clusters.
The following time-lapse video contains the images captured from the Hac Sa beach in Macau, China. The video is created by an astrophotographer, Yiu Kai Shinoda.
The best meteor shower – the Geminid meteor shower – will reach its peak on December 13th. This year, it will coincide with the full moon, which will make it appear less spectacular than...
In this video, Trace Dominguez from DNews explains why Mars’ atmosphere emits nightglow and what causes it.
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, a team of astronomers has captured a moment of birth of a triple star system. The rare system is located in the Perseus molecular...
The following video gives us several instructions on when and where to watch for the last supermoon this year.
Three comets – 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák, 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková, and 46P/Wirtanen – will pass by Earth at the closest distance in the last few years during January and February. Actually, the two comets will fly by Earth in...
The following time-lapse video shows the Milky Way in all its beauty from Woodland Park, Colorado. A creator of this video is Jamshed Nasir, an astrophotographer.
The following video contains the best images that NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made. This video is Episode 5, where we can see the amazing pictures with necessary explanations and facts.
The NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an elliptical galaxy with a unique structure known as NGC 4696. The galaxy lies in the Centaurus constellation and is 116 million light-years away from our planet.
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft has just begun a series of 20 orbits that will make it closer to its ‘Grand Finale’ or the closure of its mission. Scientists estimate that Cassini will fly through each...