Green Comet and Lunar Eclipse Will Appear Together on Saturday
The next full moon is actually a lunar eclipse that will appear on February 11. The eclipse is also known as “Snow Moon” and will occur with the Comet 47P/ Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova.
The next full moon is actually a lunar eclipse that will appear on February 11. The eclipse is also known as “Snow Moon” and will occur with the Comet 47P/ Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova.
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has found a new type of black holes – the one of the middle size. Namely, they have observed the star cluster 47 Tucanae...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft made the fourth flyby last week. It completed the last approach on February 2. Juno was at the distance of 2,670 miles or 4,300 kilometers when made its closest approach.
Using data from the NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, scientists have detected a giant black hole that has been digesting a nearby star for more than ten years. According to them, this rare event explains...
Using about two billion pictures from the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, scientists have managed to capture two spectacular nebulas – NGC 6334 and NGC 6357. NGC 6334 is better known as the Cat’s Paw...
Using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a blazer that is the farthest we have ever seen. It is located in the oldest part of our Universe and appeared when the Cosmos...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have captured a rare phenomenon when a star dies and turns into a nebula. According to them, it is rare because this very moment of transformation is...
This video contains a compilation of images of amazing nebulas in our Universe, as seen through the lens of amateur astrophotographers.
During this month, we can spot Mars and Venus in the western part of the sky. Just after midnight, Jupiter will rise in the east, while Saturn appears in the southeastern sky little later.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a hydrogen layer around Europa, one of the Jupiter’s moons. This finding can help scientists better understand Europa’s thin atmosphere.