The new point-circle method accurately calculates the distance (averaged over time) between two planets. It shows that Mercury is the nearest neighbor to all 7 other planets in the solar system, including Earth. In school, you have been taught...
How the universe we know came into existence? How do we explain the origin of the universe? Well, I am sure that most of you will say “the big bang” and rightfully so, every other piece of evidence and data collected over the...
Astronomers discovered 83 previously unknown quasars powered by supermassive black holes. These quasars are approximately 13 billion light-years away from Earth. The observations revealed that in every cubic giga-light-year there exists a...
As per the latest measurement, our galaxy weighs in at approximately 1.5 trillion solar masses. This means the Milky Way has a mass of 2.98 x 1042 kilograms. Astronomers used ESA’s Gaia and NASA’s Hubble observations to obtain this...
Researchers observed more than 20-year-old data and found that Earth’s atmosphere extends up to 630,000 kilometers away. However, astronomers would still call it a vacuum because it contains very less amount of hydrogen atoms. Earth’s...
Researchers create a precise 3D map of the Milky Way out to its far outer zones. The new map shows that the S-shaped disc of stars becomes progressively warped and twisted the further away the stars are from the center of the Milky Way. We...
The magnetic field of our Sun behaves quite differently than presently believed. The sound waves originating from the Sun’s internal acoustic oscillations affect the magnetic waves at its surface. These waves make the entire corona vibrate...
Researchers use quasars to measure the universe’s expansion across the past 12 billion years. They examined the XMM-Newton archive and gathered X-ray data of more than 7,000 quasars. Our Universe is thought to consist of 3 kinds of substance:...
Physicists build a new model that suggests our universe may be sitting on a bubble expanded by dark energy. All particles in our universe are the endpoints of strings (as per string theory) extending out into another dimension. In 1925, an...
Researchers use Saturn’s rings to study the planet’s seismology. As per calculations, the length of one day on Saturn is 10 hours 33 minutes and 38 seconds. Measuring the rotation of Saturn is not as easy as it sounds. That’s...
Like almost anything in the universe, stars born, live their life and then die. They are also one of the most diverse things we know today. The most commonly used criteria of classifying stars is based on their spectral characteristics, in which...
Researchers simulate Hawking radiation from optical analogue of an event horizon. This optical system isn’t gravitational but the mathematics describing it is very much similar to that of general relativity that applies to real black holes...