NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory recently marked its 25th anniversary by releasing an image of the massive galaxy NGC 6872. This spiral galaxy, also known as the Condor Galaxy, resides in the Pavo or Peacock constellation. The observatory, which was launched on July 23, 1999, is named in honor of the Indian astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Compared…
The ‘Andromeda Galaxy’ is the farthest celestial object that can be seen with the naked eye from Earth.It is scientifically known as M31 and NGC224.380 million years after the beginning of the universe, That means the Andromeda Galaxy was created 1000 million years ago.While there are ten billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way,…
This image was taken as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) — one of Webb’s largest first year science programs. Though data is still coming in, JADES is already revolutionizing what we know about galaxies and star formation in the early universe. Light from distant galaxies is stretched to longer wavelengths and…
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…
Well, here’s a close-up image of the Andromeda Galaxy – each dot is a star This image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, the largest and sharpest image ever taken from the Andromeda Galaxy. The full image contains 1.5 billion pixels and spans over 600 HD television screens. Astronomers estimate that the Andromeda Galaxy…
“NGC 891 is a galaxy about 30 million light-years away from the Andromeda galaxy, discovered by William Herschel on October 6, 1784. This galaxy is a member of the NGC 1023 galaxy in the local supercluster.” Do you think We are alone in the Universe?
IC 1101 is the largest galaxy ever discovered in our universe of 100 billion galaxies. IC 1101 is one of hundreds of galaxies in the galaxy cluster ABEL 2029, about 100 million light-years away.The idea of a galaxy was first proposed by the scientist Thomas Wright in 1750, but no one accepted his idea, as…
We are now rotating on our own axis with the Earth at a speed of 1000 miles per hour. We are currently orbiting the sun at 67,000 miles per hour, or 30 kilometers per second. We are now moving with the solar system at a speed of 200 kilometers per second. If the earth is…
The Solar System proxima century next to our solar system is a smaller star than the Sun, but it is said that we can not see it with the naked eye. It is 4.5 light years away from our Earth. So a star twice the size of proxima is 9 light years away, but we…
