Kepler was a deep space telescope orbiting the Sun at a distance of 3 million kilometers from Earth. We were not sure if there were any planets outside the Solar System. Since then, and running out of fuel in 2018, its photometer has shown us about 2,600 aliens. There are a number of hellish planets…
This route is the longest continuous trail on earth, with no interruptions, no occasional flights or boats, from Cape Town in South Africa to Magadan in Russia. By the time you cover this 21808 km you will have crossed seventeen countries and six time zones.
The james webb telescope considered one of the greatest scientific endeavors of the 21st century. The largest space telescope ever conceived – just hours away from reaching orbit. The $ 10 billion rocket will launch from European Guiana on a European Ariane rocket in search of an end to darkness. The web is an extraordinary…
Ganymede can be described as the king of the moons. This is because it is the largest of the moons in the Solar System. What’s more, it’s larger than the smallest planet, Mercury. But since it does not orbit the sun, it does not have the glory of a planet. Ganymede, Jupiter’s seventh moon, is…
Exoplanet Search and Study Group, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL Ahmedabad), Prof. Led by Abhijit Chakraborty, a new exoplanet has been discovered orbiting very close to a star 1.5 times the mass of our Sun. The discovery was made using the PRL Advanced Radial-Speed Abu-Sky Search (PARAS) optical fiber-fed spectrograph, the first of its kind in…
??? Light-years away, the planet is only a few million years old. That is, this gas giant is in its infancy. The Near Infrared sensor in the telescope was to capture the radiation, which did not change the heat in the manufacturing process. Everyone is waiting for James Webb to turn around. In the processed…
Imagine being able to celebrate a birthday on a planet every eight hours? One such planet is GJ 367b. That is, if we all have 365 days in a year, there it is just eight hours. It orbits its star, which is about half the size of the Sun, in about eight hours. It is…
There are a lot of places on our planet that make you wonder if this is the same thing as Earth. Let’s get acquainted with some such places .. Moon on Earth. Scientists have discovered many places on Earth similar to the Moon. The most famous of these is the Movna Kia in Hawaii. It…
A few days ago we heard the news of the first discovery of a planet outside the Milky Way. The M51 (Whirlpool Galaxy) galaxy, about 23 million light-years from Earth, has detected the presence of a planet the size of Saturn. The planet orbits a binary star. The planet orbits a binary star. One of…
