Category: SPACE

The world’s smallest artificial satellite. Shri. “Kalamsat” named after Abdul Kalam.

February 12, 2022

Weighing in at just 64 grams, the satellite is 3.8 cm in size with a cube shape. It is made entirely of 3D-printed polycarbonate polymer. It is equipped with a nano geiger Mueller counter that measures radiation in space. It was successfully launched by NASA on June 22, 2017 from the Wallop Place Flight Facility…

‘Hubble Views’

February 9, 2022

The best pictures of space!We are all excited about the arrival of James Webb, but let’s not forget that Hubble has gifted us with some of the best portraits of space.These stunning original images of the universe include: the Sombrero galaxy (infrared), the ring nebula, the spiral galaxy NGC 1566, the NGC 5195, the Veil…

Horse Head Nebula

February 7, 2022

The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky. It is visible as the dark indentation to the orange emission nebula at the far right of the featured picture. The horse-head feature is dark because it is really an opaque dust cloud that lies in front of the bright emission nebula….

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

February 7, 2022

Work on the project began in 2010. The Infrared Observatory, like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), aims to gather evidence of primitive light by looking into the maximum distance of the RST universe. However, the main purpose of the Roman Space Telescope was to study dark energy, or dark energy, and distant planets.The glass…

Death of a supernova we are going to capture first time in history

February 1, 2022

In the summer of 2020, scientists noticed some bright radiations in the sky about 120 million light years away. Soon a supernova was spotted at the same spot. Gas spheres around itWas thrown out.The last death blow of a star started 100 days ago! It was a red super giant star. Scientists are constantly watching…

Planet Hunting Mission

February 1, 2022

Space agencies are now discovering alien worlds at an astonishing rate. In fact, NASA’s planetary mission discovered 5,000 alien worlds in four years. The US Space Agency’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Exoplanet Hunter is making significant progress in this regard. Currently, thousands of exoplanets or aliens are being studied based on the signals that…

The expansion of the universe

January 31, 2022

The light year or unit of light is the unit we usually use to describe the distances between stars and galaxies. But given the size of the universe, the unit of light year is not enough. The unit used for this is Megaparsec. One Megaparsec is 32,60,000 Light years. This is a very large distance….