Tag Archives: Astro

Photograph of the Crab Nebula in NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, six-light-year-wide expansion remains … [+] In a supernova explosion of a star. NASA via Getty Image For the past 33,000 years the …

Scientists have seen an active galaxy far and wide – and it looks like it might be involved Darth Vader’s fleet. Located 500 million light years away in the Cassiopeia planetarium, the …

(WIRED reached out to Cal Fire, but they were not able to comment before press time due to ongoing wildfires in California.) Crews are still monitoring the area around the observatory, noting …

In 2018, A. The spacecraft left the International Space Station carrying the unusual cargo: colonies of bacteria that had spent years roaming the space. These intrepid germs were the last specimens returned …

Hundreds of astronomers have warned that satellite constellations such as Elon Musk’s Starlink network could prove to be “extremely influential” for astronomy and scientific progress. A report from the Satellite Constellation 1 …

Artist depiction of an evil planet. Gif: NASA / Gizmodo A new estimate suggests that the Milky Way has more free-floating planets than stars. This is a big claim, but the upcoming …

A mysterious radio signal coming to Earth from a distant galaxy has been re-detected by astronomers. The so-called Fast Radio Burst repeats every 157 days with the power of millions of suns …

By: Express News Service | Pune | Updated: August 25, 2020 11:02:28 pm Director of IUCAA Drs. Somak Raychaudhary said that this is an important clue to how the dark age of …

There may be more than 100 billion “rogue planets” flowing through the Milky Way, a new research has suggested. Free-floating planets travel through space, because they are not associated with any sun …

These are the memories that are etched in my memory after two years of living in Bhutan – the Himalayan kingdom known for its concept of “gross national happiness” (GNH). But, what …