When you look at the sky, the field of space around the earth may be as clear as a song, but there is a lot happening there, which we cannot see. In …
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Astronomers think they have lurked another Trojan asteroid in Earth’s orbit
A recently discovered object sharing the Earth’s orbital path around the Sun may actually be a Trojan asteroid, astronomers have found. If confirmed, this would be only the second objective of the …
Read More »Bad Astronomy | 7 February 2021 is the New Year of Mars
happy New Year! If you are a Mars! When it is on Earth on Sunday, February 7, 2021, on January 1, 36 (yes, only 36) on Mars: it will be the first …
Read More »How does the Earth look from outer space? | Astronomy is compulsory
Venus, Earth, and Mars on November 18, 2020, as seen through the NASA-ESA Solar Orbiter (SOLO). The image was captured from approximately 155.7 million miles (250.6 million km) away. This is in …
Read More »Moon can get water from ‘wind’ in Earth’s magnetosphere: study
A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests that the solar wind may not be the only source of water-forming ions on the moon. Researchers point out that the Moon’s …
Read More »Shining stars like Venus, Earth and Mars are seen in the family photo stuck by Solar Orbiter.
Every now and then, we get just a little glimpse of how far human ingenuity has gone. Quite literally: the image above was taken by a spacecraft traveling through the solar system, …
Read More »Earth’s latest visitor is going to leave us forever – BGR
The Earth received a new visitor in late 2020, originally thought to be a natural piece of space debris, such as a small asteroid. The object turned out to be a discarded …
Read More »Earth’s second ‘Moon’ will take one final lap before goodbye to us for good
Next week, Earth’s second moon will reach closer to the planet before flowing into space, never to appear again. “Is the second moon,” you ask? Astronomers call it 2020 SO – a …
Read More »A lucky spacecraft alignment has recorded a huge, developing solar explosion
Our Sun is not a cool ball scorching hot plasma. In fact, it explodes in a somewhat continuous mass explosion; Such coronal mass ejections are the cause of geomagnetic storms when directed …
Read More »Earth’s ability to live today is basically due to luck, millions of simulations show
It took 3 or 4 billion years to develop Homo sapiens. If the climate had completely failed in that time, then development had come to a crashing halt and we would no …
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