Black holes are one of the most fascinating objects found in the Universe. They are celestial bodies of extremely intense gravity from which nothing can escape – not a planet, not a moon, and not even light. Anything that crosses the event...
Uranus was the first ever planet to be discovered with the help of a telescope. But do you know, before Sir William Herschel, it was not recognized as a planet? When ancient astronomers first observed Uranus, they mistook it for a star. The earliest...
While most space-related researches are conducted by astronomers with ground-based telescopes, the physical exploration is carried out by both human spaceflight and unmanned robotic space probes. The main purpose of space exploration is advancing...
SpaceX vehicles are powered by dual-core x86 processors. In addition to the Linux operating system, they use LabView, a graphical programming tool that runs on Windows. Programmers at SpaceX prefer using C++ (and sometimes Python). The vehicle code...
The largest type of black holes — called supermassive black holes — have masses of the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of the Sun. The mass of our Sun is 1.989 x 1030 kilograms, approximately 333,000 times...
The brightness of a stellar object, or any astronomical object in space, is measured by its apparent magnitude from earth. The apparent magnitude of an object is determined by its distance from the earth, inherent luminosity, and any possible...
What exactly is a galaxy? In simple words, a galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, and other celestial objects, bound together by gravitational force. Galaxies can differ in shape, size and each revolve around their center of mass. Our...
Large and complex software projects use various coding standards and guidelines. These guidelines establish the ground rules that must be followed while writing software. Usually, they determine: a) How should the code be structured? b) Which...
Since the establishment of space travel, only three countries have been able to launch humans into space. The first person to travel into space was a Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961, who orbited the earth in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. Only...
How the Universe we know came into existence? And how do we explain its origin? Undoubtedly, every other piece of evidence and data collected over the years by cosmologists point towards the possibility that it all might have started with a...
The moon, being our closest celestial neighbor, has been subject to critical observation or scrutiny over the years. It was formed some 4.5 million years ago, about 60 million years after the solar system itself. It is the only natural satellite...
Planet X is a hypothetical planet that is located about 400 astronomical units (AU) away. It may take up to 20,000 Earth years to complete one full orbit around our Sun. The planet has not yet been observed, but mathematical calculations suggest...
