Biggest and the brightest explosion on the Moon yet
NASA scientists have been monitoring meteoroid impacts on the Moon for the last 8 years now. Meteors hitting the surface of the moon are a very normal phenomenon, since there […]
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The Red Rose of Saturn: a hurricane the size of Australia captured on video by Cassini
The Red Rose of Saturn The arrival of spring in Saturn’s northern hemisphere, and the steady march toward summer, has peeled back the darkness of winter and given Cassini a […]
The nearest alien planet to earth gets a new non-name in an online non-naming contest
The closest known earth-size planet beyond our solar system has a new unofficial name – Albertus Alauda! This name was awarded in a people’s choice contest, that was organized by […]
Venus silhouetted against the sun on June 5th, 2012
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captures a view of Venus silhouetted against the sun on June 5. Such a transit occurred previously in 2004, but the next time Venus passes over […]
What is the Hi-C telescope?
The Hi-C telescope has been in the news (Highest ever resolution photos of the sun captured) for the last few days, as it was the telescope that has given us the sharpest […]
Highest ever resolution photos of the sun captured
NASA has captured the highest ever resolution photos of the star that gives the fuel to run our planet, the Sun. The high-resolution photos of the sun’s corona have been […]
A gripping Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation released by NASA
An amazing depiction of the whole sequence of the NASA’s Curiosity Rover making a landing on Mars. The entry sequence is supposed to be 7 minutes, but the video squeezes […]
A spiral galaxy that shouldn’t have been there
Astronomers from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, have spotted a spiral galaxy that is a little odd, as it formed about a billion […]
Mars Rover Landing, seven minutes of terror
A glitch in the Mars Odyssey orbiter has left NASA chewing on their nails literally. The Odyssey orbiter’s Curiosity rover is expected to touchdown on the red planet next […]
AR1520, the sunspot behind the Class X solar flare
The Class X solar flare from Sunspot AR1520 that has been in the news, for giving some of the most spectacular auroras. This image of the sun from Solar Dynamics […]
