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Rosetta mission probe ends 12 year journey, lands on comet

Oct 2, 2016

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission will come to an end tomorrow, when the spacecraft will land on the comet it was launched to study in 2004. The craft reached the comet, called 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimen...

Comet Lovejoy to be visible to the naked eye for the coming ten days: Now or 8,000 years later!

Amanda

Jan 10, 2015

Innovation

Comet Lovejoy, or C/2014 Q2, will be visible to amateur stargazers with the naked eye for the coming ten days. That is if they try doing so under low-light environments. The greenish looking comet will make its...

Pulsar “bent out” vanishes out of sight of the Earth till 2170

Charles Omedo

Jan 9, 2015

Innovation

Scientists at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society have published a finding to suggest that pulsar, the small but dense neutron star – a collapsed remnant of a supernova – has vanished from vi...

Stargazers to enjoy a display of Leonid meteor shower on Monday night

Charles Omedo

Nov 17, 2014

Innovation

Stargazers and everyone that enjoys seeing a natural display of stars shooting across the night sky will be in for a treat on Monday, November 17, when thousands of meteors will take over the sky and produce a ...

First comet-like object with tail found within asteroids of Hygiea family

Charles Omedo

Nov 12, 2014

Innovation

A team of scientists will present scientific data about a newly discovered comet-like object within the Hygiea family of asteroids at the Division for Planetary Science at the American Astronomical Society, Tuc...

Meteor shower triggered as Comet Siding Spring whizzed by Mars

Siddhant Ghatge

Nov 9, 2014

Innovation

Scientists at NASA have observed Comet Siding Spring whizz very close by the red planet. The dust from Mars also went into the comet’s atmosphere. More deeper investigations by scientists are still on, about th...

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