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Hubble Telescope finds eight new loop shaped Quasar in deep space Galaxies

Apr 3, 2015

NASA - Recently, the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope gave astronomers the opportunity to observe some mysterious objects called quasars more closely. For a long time now, scientists were unable to understand th...

An amazing Supernova discovered by UC Berkeley Scholar

Cody Gash

Mar 7, 2015

Innovation

When gravity of an extremely dense object bends space gravitational lensing is likely to happen. The simple understanding to this is when you think of putting a bowling ball into a mattress. The same way eyegla...

Hubble takes New Images of young star Beta Pictoris

Cody Gash

Feb 23, 2015

Innovation

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have been able to capture never-seen-before images of the solar system of the young, 20 million years old star Beta Pictoris. The images show a large planet embedde...

Astronomers pinpoints close encounter of Scholz’s Red dwarf star and the Sun happened 70000 years ago

Amanda

Feb 18, 2015

Innovation

A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile, and South Africa have together pinpointed a near miss between our Solar System and a dim red-dwarf, known as "Scholz's star". In the ‘close’ encounter that too...

Citizen scientist spots celestial smiley face in an image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

Cody Gash

Feb 11, 2015

Innovation

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured many mesmerizing and amazing images of several galaxies over decades. However, recently, it presented the most serendipitous image of a special image of one of the sev...

Collision of white dwarf stars located inside a nebula likely to produce supernova eruption

Cody Gash

Feb 10, 2015

Innovation

A pair of dwarf stars has been moving closer toward each other. These stars are located deep inside of the Henize 2-428, a planetary nebula. Their collision is expected to eventually result into a catastrophic ...

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 ...

Meteorite proven Strong Magnetic Fields unearth Solar System formation secrets

Siddhant Ghatge

Nov 15, 2014

Innovation

It has been believed since long past by scientists that the strong magnetic fields must have been the root cause of the formation of the solar system. There was however no physical evidence to prove the same. A...

Astronomers discovered Earth-like planet in a Binary Star System

Abby Smith

Jul 4, 2014

Innovation

The answer to the question- Are we alone in this universe? Now seems even more possible. Recently astronomers have discovered a new planet in a binary star system which is located 3000 light years from Earth. A...

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