Dwarf Spheroidals or dark galaxies are those small galaxies that are composed mainly of dark matter.
Such galaxies are usually satellites of other large galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.
Scientists now believe that these...
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NASA's spacecraft named Ulysses has shown a closest glimpse of the Sun.
The spacecraft was launched on October 6, 1990 and last week it was directly over the south pole of Sun.
Researchers who are closely monitoring the spacecraft mentioned...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has always provided us with some fascinating images of the Universe.
This time the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 of the space telescope has captured the colorful demise of a Sun-Like star that is some 4,000 light...
This spectacular image has been provided by NASA.
The image shows clouds of gas and debris that make the nebula look like the eye of god.
The Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope have both taken these glorious images of the.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has shot an image of a diverse cluster of galaxies called the Abell S0740.
The cluster shows images that are around 450 million light-years from earth and in constellation Centaurus.
At the center of the...
Astronomers usually thought that the neutron stars are less bright as compared to the other main stars of the Universe.
This theory is proved wrong with the latest research done by Dr. Sylvain Chaty of the University Paris 7.
The research...
Astronomers at the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research have made observations with the ESA's XMM-Newton X-Ray observatory and have concluded that our Universe is 1.5 times richer in than previously expected.
Our body elements that...
Small amounts of toxic ammonia leaked when two astronauts that is Michael Lopez-Algeria and Sunita Williams conducted their second space walk.
Mission control was not much affected by the ammonia leak and told the astronauts to continue their...
Spacecraft Cassini has now been in space for more than two and a half years and has already transmitted some of the best that the world can see of the distant planet.
This journey of Cassini will continue till June 30, 2008.
During the...
When we talk about the universe we are talking about 94% of it that we have not been able to see and analyze.
We don't know what all the secrets of the universe may hold for the mankind. There are new theories that are made by the astronomers...
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