'Mirror image' of earth, sun found 3000 light-years away
Jun 09, 2020, 10:00 AM ISTScientists have discovered a massive exoplanet that orbits a star located some 3,000 light-years away from us and it may be potentially habitable.
Scientists have discovered a massive exoplanet that orbits a star located some 3,000 light-years away from us and it may be potentially habitable.
The largest hole in the earth's ozone layer over the Arctic has closed. Scientists have confirmed that the largest hole in the ozone layer which was 1 million square kilometers wide over the Arctic has now healed.
NASA is planning to launch a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms -- known as solar particle storms -- into planetary space.
The Sun looks like a boiling pot of popcorn, belies the notion of a bland yellow orb. Details in the newly released images show plasma, which covers the sun, that appears to boil.
Wolf moon eclipse: January 10 (Friday) is going to be a wolf moon eclipse night as we approach towards one of the four lunar eclipses in 2020. It is going to be a penumbral (partial) lunar eclipse when the earth will come between Sun and Moon.
Betelguese is a star in the Orion constellation and is one of the brightest objects in the sky. However, Betelgeuse has rapidly fallen down the list of brightest objects in the night sky.
Solar Eclipse 2019: People in Tamil Nadu across several districts including Chennai, Tiruchirapalli, Udhagamandalam, Madurai others witnessed Solar eclipse 2019 watching sun turning into a ring of fire.
PM Modi posted photos of him on Twitter witnessing solar eclipse 2019 when sun turned into a 'ring of fire' on Thursday saying like many Indians, I was enthusiastic about Solar Eclipse 2019.
While it is not possible to put the entire Milky Way on a scale, that has not deterred astronomers from trying to make measurements of our home galaxy. According to a new "robust" estimate of Milky Way's mass measurement, it is about 890 billion times the mass of our Sun.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe will sweep past Venus on December 26 for the second gravity-assist of the $1.5 billion mission and make its fourth close solar encounter in January.
Until just a few years ago, stellar black holes could only be discovered when they gobbled up gas from a companion star, the researchers said. This process creates powerful X-ray emissions, detectable from the Earth, that reveal the presence of the collapsed object, they said.
A transit of Mercury across the Sun takes place when the planet Mercury passes directly (transits) between the Sun and a superior planet, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. Transits of Mercury occur in May or November.
Both NASA and the European Space Agency are reporting that a newly discovered comet zooming toward the sun is likely from another star.
An amazing video captured by the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a spacecraft jointly launched by NASA and the European Space Agency in 1995, shows how a comet getting fully destroyed while diving towards the sun.
NASA will launch two new missions to advance our understanding of the Sun and its dynamic effects on space weather, the US space agency said.
The scientists suspected that one big question informed the other -- that the history of the Sun is buried in the Moon's crust.
Four billion yeras ago, the Sun went through violent bursts of radiation. NASA feels history of the Sun is buried in crust of the Moon. This, they say, may even reveal secrets of life on earth.
The spacecraft is operating well and all instruments are collecting science data, sending back normal signals through NASA's Deep Space Network.
The spacecraft completed its first orbit of the Sun, reaching the point in its orbit farthest from our star, called aphelion, NASA said in a statement.
Some places, including the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles will be live streaming the phenomenon.
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