Tag: astronomy
James Webb’s Deep Field, A Colorful Time Tunnel
In the beginning—about 400,000 years after the Big Bang— darkness was upon the face of the deep. The light was trapped inside the neutral...
Journey and Science of the Largest and Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built
“Nature speaks to men in a voice familiar to his soul”Alexander von Humboldt
When Alexander von Humboldt sailed to Cumaná, Venezuela, he became obsessed with...
Astronomers May Have Spotted an Exoplanet in Another Galaxy
In 1923, Edwin Hubble made an astonishing discovery: the Milky Way does not encompass the whole universe. After many autumn nights, aiming the Hooker...
Bug-sized Mountains That Might Power Ripples in Space-time
Fabian Gittins and Nils Andersson from the University of Southampton in the UK simulated the forces that may cause imperfections in neutron stars. They are trying to find out how these hypothetical mountains would have emerged and how large they would be. The scientists modeled the highest peak a neutron star crust can support, i.e., before the crust fractures.
Scientists reveal Mars’ inner structure
When the Greeks observed the errant lights in the sky—which they named planets—they probably never envisioned that, one day, we could actually reach the...
Molecules essential for life found close to the center of the galaxy
The development of the cell membrane was a milestone in the success of life on Earth. A cell membrane is a wall that protects...
The survival of planetary systems
In 1992, Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail rocked the astronomy community discovering the first two planets around a star other than our Sun. Until...
Our rights to the sky
During a solar eclipse in India on October 20th, 1868, English astronomer Norman Lockyer noticed a peculiar yellow shade in the light detected with...
Kepler – The Astronomer Who Was Guided By Divine Providence
On this day 399 years ago, German astronomer Johannes Kepler formulated the third law of planetary motion.
The 7 Most Interesting Extrasolar Systems
Beyond the well-known Solar System, there is an immensity of other unique systems.