Ceres, Seen from a Distance of 5,700 Km
New images of Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, were captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. Scientists used 80 images of Ceres to create this animation. The images, used in this video, are...
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Hubble Can Detect Extraterrestrial Life by Studying Atmosphere of Exoplanets
For scientists, there is no question about terrestrial life; they are sure that alien life exists somewhere in our Universe. They only wonder if there is alien life close to our planet. In this...
Beauty of the Leo Triplet Captured by Hubble
This video shows us a peculiar galaxy, Messier 66, which is a member of the largest triade called the Leo Triplet. Its unusual shape is influenced by the gravitational pull of Messier 65 and...
Planets, Dwarf Planets and Asteroids Visible in June 2015
At the beginning of the month, we can see Saturn very close to the Moon in the early evening. Pluto will also come close to the Moon, but it is still invisible. At the...
New Images of Comet 67P
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released new images of the Comet 67P/ Churyumov – Gerasimenko, taken by the Rosetta space probe. They depict the area of 4 km wide, full of ice, snow,...
Potato-Shaped Moons of Pluto
The New Horizons’ probe is nearing its end destination – Pluto – in July, this year. While scientists are wondering what New Horizons will find there, we already have the evidence that shows unusual...
The Milky Way Reflects on Grubensee, Germany
The following time-lapse video represents a selection of images captured from Grubensee, Brandenburg, Germany. These images were taken during beautiful spring nights in April and May, 2015.
Art and Space
In studying exoplanets, NASA’s infrared telescope called the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) is of enormous importance. Although astronomers have found more than 500 exoplanets, they are still too hard to study because of their...
Merging Galaxies
Although galaxies in our universe are distributed with a lot of vast space between them, from time to time, they come very close to each other and start merging. As a result, they form...
Aurora on Mars Is Visible by Naked Eye
A new study reveals that Mars also has aurora as our planet, which is in the visible range. The southern lights on Mars become brighter and more vivid when the intensity of solar eruptions...
Wonders of Our Universe
This video leads us on a journey through our Solar System and further. Through sequences of astonishing images and beautiful music in the background, we can explore our Universe and its objects.
‘Green Rust’ Can Nurture the Life on Mars
Amy Shira Teitel from DNews explains where on Mars scientists are looking for the signs of extraterrestrial life and why. She speaks about the Gale Crater and NASA’s Mars Curiosity mission, which focuses on...
Planets, Constellations, and Events in June’s Night Sky
This video is a monthly guide for every stargazer on a northern hemisphere. It points out at constellations, planets, deep-sky objects and events during the following month. The month begins with Jupiter and Venus...
A New Picture of a Two-Sided Nebula Has Been Released
Gum 19 or better known as the two-sided nebula is 22,000 light-years away from our planet, settled in Vela constellation. This breathtaking image is captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
The Milky Way Seen from Outer Space
This video shows our night sky from the International Space Station. NASA’s astronaut, Terry Vrits, shares with us this amazing view of the Milky Way.
A New ‘Weird’ Star, Named Nasty 1, Has Been Found in the Milky Way
The Hubble Space Telescope has recently discovered a new star that rapidly ages. The star is encircled by a huge disc of gas, which is two trillion miles in its diameter. According to scientists,...
Astronomers Have Spotted the Brightest Galaxy in the Universe – NASA
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft has detected the brightest galaxy we have ever known in our Universe. This galaxy is billions of light-years away from us and orbits around the extremely large...
Milky Way Time-Lapse
This time-lapse video shows the night sky and the Milky Way near Butler, Missouri on May 18-19th, 2015. A group of astrophotographers from Dark Sky Site Club has captured these beautiful images.
