As the name suggests, this galaxy may look like the wheels of a wagon to some. The Cartwheel Galaxy and the galaxies to its left are part of a cluster of galaxies in the Sculptor star cluster, about 500 million light-years from Earth. The diameter of this galaxy is about 10000 light years…!! It also…
NASA has launched four probes into space to communicate with extraterrestrials. Along with that it is used for the study of the universe, the planets of the solar system and so on. Voyager 1 and 2 in 1977. Before this, they were Pioneer 10 in 1972 and Pioneer 11 in 1973.(Out of which Voyager 1…
Enceladus is Saturn’s sixth largest moon, only one-seventh the diameter of our Moon. Perhaps the mysterious sphere in the solar system where extraterrestrial life is most likely! In 1789, British astronomer William Herschel was the first to discover Enceladus, one of Saturn’s inner moons. This discovery was made with the 47 inch telescope he built….
What are S-Stars??? S-stars are stars orbiting the supermassive black hole (Sagittarius A) at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. They can travel at a speed of 8000 km per second. That is 2.5% of the speed of light. S-stars can be said to have helped researchers to some extent in finding the mass…
The mission to hit and divert an asteroid for the first time in history is a success. The first step was to get close to the asteroid and crash into it (Kinetic Impact). NASA’s DART mission touched down eight hours ago. As predicted, the asteroid began to appear on the vehicle camera around 4 am…
Yes.. In a few days we will be able to see Jupiter, our giant planet, closer and brighter than it has been in the last 70 years. Directly opposite to the Sun..that is, Jupiter rises in the east when the sun sets in the west, overhead at midnight, and Jupiter sets in the west when…
Yes, James Webb has copied these rings pretty cleanly.
