Astronomers Exploring More Planets than Stars in Galaxy | The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it is a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber stars in our galaxy and they are even finding them in the strangest of places. And they have only begun to count.…

A Chinese Long March 2F carrier rocket hurled Shenzhou-8 into orbit a week ago. Two days later, the unmanned spacecraft linked up with the Tiangong-1 module, accomplishing China’s first space docking. Less than two months before, however, an orbiter launched by a similar Long March rocket had failed to reach its designated orbit due to a malfunction.…

The enchanting beauty of a clear summer sky. The Milky Way, the disc of our galaxy, home to billions of stars, stands above the southern horizon. A streaking meteor and a passing satellite are also captured in this lucky shot. The yellow glow at the horizon are lights from the nearby towns. Photographer: Oshin D. Zakarian in his work entitled, “Touched by the Sky”. The photo was shot at Kataleh Khor, Zanjan, Iran on August 2011.…

We can aurora on our planet Earth because auroras are nothing but simple natural display of lights that occurs because of collision of energetic charged particles that try to get into the Earth’s atmosphere from high altitude atmosphere. However, many space experts have now found auroras occurring on the poles of planet Saturn and which are very much identical with the auroras that happen on Earth. Andy Ingersoll, Team Member of Cassini Imaging have confirmed that they have seen ultraviolet auroras on the poles of Saturn and which look very …

Do you know anything about the mystery of the Mars Moon Phobos Monolith? There are many things in universe that is still unexplained because there are no concrete answers or explanations to where it came from and how it got into the place where it is now. We have been circulating Mars for quite some time now but the mystery of Phobos monolith still remains because there are no answers on how it got there. There are many instances and pictures where Phobos monolith has been seen on the surface …

There is no doubt that the universe is a pretty big place and to measure it is almost impossible for anybody because you cannot really define and start and end points on it. If you try to move out from the Earth towards the universe you will find that there are multiple artificial satellites that revolve around our planet and it certainly takes them days and months together to make one full circle. Watch this video to get some ideas on how to measure the size of our big universe.…

This panoramic view, photographed from the International Space Station (ISS), looking past the docked space shuttle Atlantis’ cargo bay and part of the station including a solar array panel toward Earth, was taken on July 14 as the joint complex passed over the southern hemisphere. Aurora Australis or the Soutern Lights can be seen on Earth’s horizon and a number of stars are visible also.…

Saturn has always remained one of the most mysterious planets in our solar system. This is probably why space scientists and experts have done a lot of research work on it. However, the mystery hexagon on Saturn still remains a mystery that none of the space experts have been able to explain so far. In 2007, modern imaging technology revealed that Saturn is much more complicated and mysterious than imagined because it has a hexagon on its pole that has been there for more than 20 years now.…

A team of GLP curious lads tested their 14″ telescope with the computer control software and the live camera. Here is a quick image of Saturn to give you an idea of what their scope can do. The image could be better focused but you get the idea. According to them, “was a cool night of testing the scope software and cam”.…

Have you ever wondered the size of our universe? According to an article in BBC News – May 2004, the visible universe is at least 156 billion light years wide and that implies that its radius is half that or 78 billion light years. Still cannot imagine? See the photos below. Earth is too small.

Image Credit: Nasa via Yurock

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