This is a picture of the Arp 78 galaxy taken by the Gemini North telescope on the island of Hawaii. Arp 78 is a peculiar spiral galaxy in the constellation Aries. Peculiar galaxies are galaxies that change shape and size due to the gravitational pull of other galaxies. The name Arp is derived from the…
The size of the stars is something that amazes us a lot. UY Scuti is a star 1700 times larger than the Sun, Stephenson 2-18. We are amazed and amazed to hear that the star is 2150 times the size of the Sun. (Size here means diameter)However, there is an inaccuracy in comparing the sizes…
One of the recipients of the 2020 Nobel Prize is Andrea Guess, an American researcher. Andrea and her colleague Renard Gazelle won the award for discovering an unknown object in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, which includes our Earth. That unknown object was nothing else. A black hole or black hole. Sagittarius AOur…
Planet tres- 2B It absorbs all the light around it. Planet kepler -22B The entire planet is surrounded by oceans. Planet j1047B It has 200 times more rings than our Saturn. Planet 55 cancri E Its entire interior is diamond. Planet gliese 536B Evaporation is always going on. It has a tail like a comet….
Raja Chari, an Indian-born astronaut who arrived at the space station last year, has completed his first spacewalk. Raja Chari spent 6.5 hours outside the space station as part of a special mission. The mission was to upgrade the International Space Station, which has been extended to 2030. Raja was accompanied by flight engineer Kayla…
This image was taken 36 years ago in March 1986 at a distance of about 2,000 km by ESA’s Giotto spacecraft. Only after 2061 will 1P / Halley return to the inner solar system.l
Habex is a space telescope designed to detect terrestrial orbits around bright stars. (Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission-HabEx). Habex is looking for stars as bright as the sun. Planets in their habitable zone and the presence of water and methane on such planets will be examined. Water and methane are signs of life. Water is the…
What is the Milky Way?The Milky Way galaxy is a huge collection of dust, gas, and stars, including our Sun. The Earth is located inside this galaxy, so it is often called “our home galaxy” or simply “our galaxy.” It might be hard to believe, but that starry band across the night sky that…
