Tag: Space

Leonard comet with double tail

January 1, 2022

On January 3, the closest Leonard comet to the Sun will begin its journey out of the Solar System forever. Until January 10, the comet will be visible through binoculars or telescopes after sunset near the southern Pisces constellation in the western hemisphere. The comet was discovered in January 2021 by scientist Gregory Leonard using…

TOI-1789b

December 21, 2021

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…

What if you went to Space without a spacesuit?

December 12, 2021

Due to the vacuum of space, there will be formation of bubbles in your body fluids within short time & you’d swell up pretty bad- up to twice your normal size! After 15 seconds, your body would’ve used all of the oxygen and you’d lose consciousness. After some time, your lungs would rupture & might…

If you go on a journey to the end of the universe!

November 22, 2021

I know without saying that the earth is very small compared to the universe Returning from here, we first reach our neighbor, the Moon, which looks very close from Earth, but the Moon is not very close, which is 384400km. If you go 100kmph in a car, you will reach the Moon in 160 days….

Tacos with chilli sprouts planted in space

November 7, 2021

The food was cooked in space for the first time in history. Tacos, a Mexican food, is made from chili grown at the space center itself. NASA revealed this on Friday. Plant Habitat – 04 The small spacecraft experiment at the International Space Station was named Plant Habitat-04. The U.S. space agency has revealed that…

Planetary nebula

November 1, 2021

During the mainstream phase of stellar evolution, the outer layers expand and the core shrinks as the stars become red giants. Externally expanding outer layers are separated from the star by various actions. This part of the planet is called the Planetary Nebula. Named the Planetary Nebula, it has nothing to do with the Planet….

The farthest exoplanet ever discovered

October 31, 2021

Exoplanets are planets outside our solar system.So far, astronomers have identified 4,800 planets orbiting other stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. They are all about 3,000 light-years from Earth. But for the first time, NASA has discovered a planet outside the Milky Way. The discovery was made using NASA’s Lunar X – ray Observatory….

‘Silkworm’ in Hubble’s eyes

October 26, 2021

The ‘Cosmic Silkworm’ was spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope in the constellation Cygnus, 4,500 light-years from us. Astronomers were intrigued by the worm-shaped interstellar gas dust that lasted a light year. The researchers say that the dust particle, known as IRAS 20324 + 4057, is a ‘protostar’. A protostar is a layer of dust…

“The Pelican North American Nebula”

October 21, 2021

NGC 7000 is an emission nebula in the constellation Swan.The nebula was discovered on October 24, 1786 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.Distance from Earth: 2,202 light-yearsBrightness: 4Radius: 50 light yearsCoordinates: RC 20h 59m 17s | Dec +44° 31′ 44″Absolute brightness The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in…

“The Flaming Star Nebula ” aka” IC 405″

October 20, 2021

IC 405 (also known as the Flaming Star Nebula, SH 2-229 or Caldwell 31) is an emission/reflection nebula in the constellation of Voerman, The nebula “shines” at a magnitude of 6. It surrounds the star AE Aurigae and is close to nebula IC 410, the open star clusters Messier 38 and Messier 36, and the…