Space Discoveries
Discovery Universe
Pasadena, CA — Quasars are supermassive black holes that sit at the center of enormous galaxies, accreting matter. They shine so brightly that they are often referred to as beacons and are among the most-distant objects in the universe that we can currently study. New work from a team led by Carnegie’s…
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New space Discovery
Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com contributor In a teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) tomorrow, the space agency will announce new findings made by the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope. You can tune in to the announcement live via an online audio feed provided by NASA. A statement from NASA announcing…
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NASA latest discoveries
Like most first glimpses of new frontiers, Pluto held so many surprises for New Horizons that the past eight months have seen a steady stream of discoveries coming from the mission, as the spacecraft’s small radio transmitter beams its gathered data back home. The biggest surprises have been Pluto’s surface and atmosphere, which are restlessly active and diverse despite average…
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Latest News About Astronomy 2014
In the race to discover the recently proposed Planet Nine, a team of astronomers has discovered ten previously unknown objects beyond the orbit of the giant planet Neptune. “Objects found far beyond Neptune hold the key to unlocking our Solar System’s origins and evolution, ” said team member Dr. Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington…
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New galaxy discovered
A huge galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way has seemingly appeared out of nowhere. The newly spotted dwarf galaxy, which has been named Crater 2, sits around 400, light-years away, and has already earned the title of the fourth largest known galaxy circling our own. So how does a galaxy that big stay hidden for so long? Crater 2 has always been there, quietly circling our own…
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Where was Galileo Galilei from?
Galileo s telescope helped the astronomer to learn more about our solar system. This is a reconstruction of the telescope. Photograph: Jim Sugar/Corbis While many people have been loudly celebrating this year s double commemoration of 200 years since Charles Darwin s birth and 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species, another scientific anniversary has crept…
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Recent space Discovery
A planet with 10 times the mass of Earth may be orbiting the sun beyond Neptune. This image shows the theorized orbit of the giant planet and six other solar system objects beyond Neptune. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Brown and Batygin considered the possibility that other relatively small KBOs might be shaping the orbits. But the duo s calculations suggested that, for this…
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Stellar Habitable Zones
Habitable zone the orbital region around a in which an -like can possess liquid on its surface and possibly support life. Liquid water is essential to all on , and so the definition of a habitable zone is based on the hypothesis that would share this requirement. This is a very conservative (but observationally useful) definition, as a planet’s surface temperature depends not…
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