The first full-sky image from Europe's Planck telescope which was sent into space last year to survey the oldest light in the cosmos Photo: ESA
Giant clouds of interstellar gas and dust light up this panoramic view of the sky recorded by the European space agency’s Planck telescope
The space telescope was [...]
This is an artist's concept of the exoplanet WASP-12b. It is the hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy, and potentially the shortest lived. The planet is only 2 million miles from its sunlike parent star — a fraction of Earth's distance from the Sun. Gravitational tidal forces from the star stretch [...]
Jupiter has lost one of its prominent stripes, leaving its southern half looking unusually blank. Scientists are not sure what triggered the disappearance of the band.Jupiter’s appearance is usually dominated by two dark bands in its atmosphere – one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.But recent images taken by amateur astronomers [...]
British physicist Stephen Hawking says aliens are out there, but it could be too dangerous for humans to interact with extraterrestrial life.
Hawking claims in a new documentary titled “Into the Universe With Stephen Hawking” that intelligent alien life forms almost certainly exist — but warns that communicating with them could be “too risky.”
“We only [...]
APRIL 1: Venus and Mercury are 3 degrees apart, very low near horizon in West at 7:50pm.
APRIL 4: A Waning Gibbous Moon stands around 5 degrees E-SE of Antares.
APRIL 6: Last Quarter Moon.
APRIL 9: Mercury Greatest Eastern elongation.
APRIL 12: A very thin Crescent Moon will be nearly 6.5 degrees N of Jupiter just before dawn. [...]
AASTRO Kerala will organize vivid programmes through out the state on the backdrop of Global Astronomy Month (GAM 2010),an international project in April which is a follow up to IYA 2009.AASTRO joined other astronomy groups worldwide to share their enthusiasm ans innovation,and to connect people through skies.
The official launch of AASTRO GAM 2010 activities will [...]
The planet Saturn reached opposition this past weekend, rising as the sun sets and making its closest approach to Earth this year. The planet saunters across Virgo over the next few weeks: it’s the brightest object between the stars Porrima in Virgo and Denebola in Leo. Saturn is truly one of the prettiest sights you can [...]
Craters (circled green) on the north pole of the Moon. Photo credit: Nasa
The Miracles by Chandrayan – 1 , the first moon mission of India launched on 2008 October 22 continues. Months ago American space agency NASA’s ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), one of the instruments on [...]
The idea of “Men from Mars” has been with us for more than a century now, thanks to writers like H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs. And movies like “Mars Attacks” and “War of the Worlds” are good fun. But what’s the real story of the search for life on Mars?
In the 17th [...]
Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) , founder of modern astronomy.
Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.Nicolaus Copernicus is the Latin version of the famous astronomer’s name [...]
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