Space Scan

On Wednesday astronomers declared about the two explosions that occurred in the year 2004 and 2006 in a galaxy at million light years from Earth. These explosions result in the death of one of the most gigantic stars. Scientists described this death.

For the first time, the properties of a rare, extremely massive, and young binary star system are determined. Thanks to NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite and ground-based telescopes. Surprising astronomers, the binary..

Astronomers at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the biggest and the brightest star explosion that has ever been recorded. The blast occurred in a star called SN 2006gy which is at a distance of 240 million light-years from us. The...

Thanks to the scientists. It's now known that Charon, Pluto's only confirmed moon so far, is no more alone. Astronomers have discovered two more moons of Pluto using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Same with Eta Carinae, one of the most massive and...

Eta Carinae is not lonely as thought to be. Flaunting to be one of the most massive and unusual of its kind in the Milky Way galaxy, the star has a companion. Scientists made the first direct detection of its companion star using NASA's Far Ultraviolet...