[ad_1] In late April 2023, Earth experienced a powerful geomagnetic storm that lit up the skies with fascinating auroras, even at lower latitudes like Ladakh in India. These auroras are mostly restricted to the North Pole and northern regions of the world, but this geomagnetic storm was so powerful that it generated auroras that could … Read more
[ad_1] By Rebecca Wilson BBC News NI 4 hours ago Image source, IT/L. Road Screenshot, Artist’s impression of the magnetic white dwarf WD 0816-310 with a metallic scar Armagh astronomers have discovered a sign that a star was feeding on nearby planets and asteroids. A metal scar found on the surface of the dead star … Read more
[ad_1] NIA | Updated: February 28, 2024 00:08 IST Tel Aviv (Israel), February 28 (ANI/TPS): Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, Israeli astronomers have identified an extraordinarily red supermassive black hole enveloped in cosmic dust, challenging current knowledge about the growth of black holes and their relationship with host galaxies. .The Webb Telescope … Read more
[ad_1] Astronomers finally got a closer look at a stadium-sized asteroid that was first spotted 16 years ago. The flying object approached Earth in what was a planetary flyby. The space rock, named 2008 OS7, passed by Earth on February 2 while NASA’s Deep Space Network planetary radar maintained surveillance. The asteroid came within 2.9 … Read more
[ad_1] By Pallab Ghosh scientific correspondent 9 hours ago Image source, NASA/Josefin Larsson Screenshot, The purple neutron star has been discovered to lie at the center of a bright “string of pearls”-shaped ring of superheated gas. Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what lies at the heart of a famous cosmic explosion. In … Read more
[ad_1] Astronomers are still discovering strange things in space, and the latest is something they’ve called Radcliffe Wave. This wavy chain of star-forming clouds is the largest coherent structure ever seen in our galaxy: 9,000 light years from end to end and stretching across the night sky from Canis Major to Swanwith Orion between. Now … Read more
[ad_1] February 8, 2024 BEIJING – Using spectrum data collected by the Large-Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope, along with other studies and observations, Chinese astronomers have constructed the most detailed rotation curve ever created of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), calculating the mass of the galaxy. approximately 1.14 billion times that of the Sun. The … Read more
[ad_1] Surrounded by the desert mountains and clear blue skies of northern Chile, astronomers at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory hope to revolutionize the study of the universe by placing the world’s largest digital camera on a telescope. Aerial view of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory located on Cerro Pachón, approximately 80 km from the … Read more