Star formation looks like Van Gogh’s Starry Night
ESA unveils this new image based on data from the Planck satellite, show formation of stars, that looks like Van Gogh’s masterpiece, The Starry Night.
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The Extremely Large Telescope compared to…
The gigantic European Extremely Large Telescope compared with Giza Pyramids, the Statue of Liberty and the Colosseum in Rome.
Robo-Squid will explore Europa’s underground oceans
NASA has unveiled a ‘robo-squid,’ hoping to discover with it alien life in underground oceans of Jupiter’s moon, Europa.
Earth-sized virtual telescope to explore Black Holes
A virtual telescope as big as planet Earth, will take detailed images of the very edge, or “event horizon,” of the supermassive black hole at the center
NASA’s NExSS leading the search for Life on Distant Worlds
In a new effort NASA with NExSS, is bringing together experts spanning a variety of scientific fields for an unprecedented initiative dedicated to the search for life on
Mysterious ‘Supervoid’ is largest object in the Universe
Mysterious ‘supervoid’ 1.8 billion light-years wide, could be the biggest object ever discovered in the universe.
For the first time dark matter may have been observed
For the first time dark matter may have been observed interacting with other dark matter in a way other than through the force of gravity.
Meet our new neighbours orbiting the Milky Way
Meet our new neighbours: Astronomers discovered at least nine ultra-faint satellites in the vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds. New dwarf galaxies orbiting around the Milky Way.
Bizarre Bright Spots on Ceres
Astronomers puzzled by ‘bright spots’ on surface of dwarf planet Ceres, as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object.
Gigantic Black Hole 12 billion times more massive than our Sun
A gigantic black hole at the heart of the brightest quasar in the early universe discovered, 12 billion times more massive than our sun.