Andromeda galaxy real size? Yes. This image really depicts what the night sky would look like if the Andromeda Galaxy – the galaxy next door – were brighter. Original background photo of the month by Stephen Rahn. Andromeda Galaxy image via NASA. Composite photo by Tom Buckley-Houston. Not convinced? Here …
Read More »Exoplanet fighter TESS completes its primary mission | Space
? NASA’s latest space telescope – the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, aka TESS – has just completed its primary mission, the space agency announced on August 11, 2020. Its initial research into the air took two years. During this time, TESS revolutionaryly helped our knowledge of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant …
Read More »Lava bubbles on Mars and the moon are massive; could act as a shield against cosmic and solar radiation- Technology News, Firstpost
FP Trending17 Aug 2020 17:34:46 IST Earth is home to several lava tubes or long volcanic caves that can be defined as “channels of lava rivers that at a somewhat earlier time downslope flowed from a volcanic vent than fissure “. Interestingly, the surface of Mars and Moon also has …
Read More »This is when and how the universe is expected to end
It is not expected to happen at any moment, but one scientist has calculated when the universe will end. The study, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, notes that sometimes in the “next few trillion years”, when the universe is dead as we know it, stars …
Read More »NASA is following an enormous, growing anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field
NASA is actively monitoring an early anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field: a gigantic region with lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, which extends between South America and southwest Africa. This large, evolving phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and troubled scientists for years, and …
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