Groundbreaking Black Hole Announcement Coming Soon
Could they be about to share a photo of a black hole’s event horizon? via Science Alert: The European Southern Observatory has just revealed there will be a huge announcement next week. Yes, we know how that sounds – but as far as we can tell, it appears the world is about to finally see the first ever photo of … Continue reading
Our Sun’s ‘Near’ Miss With A Passing Star
Stars jostling around the galaxy aren’t quite like a cosmic game of pool. But they do have occasional near misses as they speed past each other. Back when spears and stone points were the height of human technology, astronomers say, our solar system had a close encounter of the interstellar kind. The brief visitor was Scholz’s star, and it might … Continue reading
Astronomers May Have Figured Out Jupiter’s Mysterious Origins
Jupiter’s anomalous size and location in our Solar System has been puzzling researchers for years, since it doesn’t fit with our understanding of planetary formation. Now, astronomers think they’ve figured out how the gas giant ended up in its curious position. According to current models, giant planets form in the outer reaches of a system, migrate inwards, and end up … Continue reading
Earth is Closer to Mercury than to Venus On Average
In a conclusion likely to provoke more than one bar fight, researchers at Physics Today have crunched the numbers and found that the closest planet to Earth is, on average, not Venus, as we’ve been taught, but Mercury. We’ve all learned this one in school, right? “My very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas.” The planets get further apart … Continue reading
There May Be Billions of Undetected ‘Rogue Planets’ Roaming Our Galaxy
We tend to believe that our solar system with our Sun and the Earth and other planets orbiting around it is the how all planets exist, orbiting their parent star. However, every so often astronomers get get a glimpse of a whole other scenario – rogue planets, not attached to any star or system, drifting lonely through the galaxy. “Now … Continue reading
Pluto and Neptune Actually Swap Places Every 248 Years
Amazing! via curiosity: Pluto has had a rough time of it. Sure, the Earth is full of people wearing novelty T-shirts proclaiming their loyalty to what used to be called the smallest planet, but it doesn’t change the fact that scientists won’t let it back in the planet club. At least it got a couple years of being the farthest … Continue reading
Astronomers Seek Help to Capture Unusual Stellar Blackout
A rare and fleeting stellar blackout is being hailed by astronomers as the perfect opportunity to ask budding stargazers for help in accurately plotting the brightest object we can see from Earth. A 2.8-mile-wide (4.6km) asteroid called Jurgenstock will pass in front of the double star system Sirius on Monday night, briefly blocking its powerful shine and casting an eclipse-like … Continue reading
Secret Sign That Would Indicate Impending Apocalypse Revealed by NASA Scientist
If there were an inbound ‘doomsday’ asteroid or comet on it’s way, do you think NASA would alert the media? I think they would alert government officials but media and citizens would likely only hear it through the grapevine, I believe they would not alert the public directly as to avoid panic. via Sputniknews: The astronomer noted that despite what … Continue reading
Newly Discovered Planet K2-288Bb Lies Within Habitable Zone, Liquid Water Possible
NASA’s Kepler space telescope ran out of fuel in October last year. Data gathered during the course of its scientific mission, however, paved way to the discovery of a new exoplanet. Planet K2-288Bb The newly identified planet dubbed K2-288Bb is twice the size of the Earth. It lies within its host star’s habitable zone, which means the planet may have … Continue reading
Farthest Solar System Body Ever Spotted – Second Discovered this Year
In the hunt for Planet nine AKA Planet X scientists are making some record breaking discoveries! via space.com: A newly discovered object is the most-distant body ever observed in the solar system – and the first object ever found orbiting at more than 100 times the distance from Earth to the sun. The discovery team nicknamed the object “Farout,” and … Continue reading
