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The cosmos never ceases to amaze us with its sheer size and splendor. The star studded sky above us and the vast unexplored eternity that lay beyond us have always captured both human mind and human heart. While the glitz and shine of the stars and the.
In 2004, people saw comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smacking into Jupiter. It was pretty cool. Now, scientists are even more excited that an asteroid speeding at 8 miles per second is on its way to hit planet Mars. Even though it is predicted that there is...
The 400 light-years away open cluster in the constellation of Taurus and among the nearest to the Earth -- Pleiades -- seems to be ever happening, now that small, rocky planets may be in the making in the cluster!
It is all happening around one...
Our solar system is by far the largest of about 130 planetary systems that exist. There are stars other than the sun such as 55 Cancri and mu Ara around which planets have been found to orbit. The 55 Cancri is about 41 light-years away from solar...
Recently, the scientists monitored the sky for what they call 'teenager galaxies'. It is extremely hard to find young galaxies because they are just a tiny spot in the sky. Nevertheless, the scientists managed to locate these young guys in space...
When our human mind was still busy exploring the various fascinating aspects of the universe, new and more mysterious things outside it awaits our attention. The concepts of parallel universe and life forms existing on other planets have got their share..
Out of the various experiments conducted in space, the space tether experiment conducted by a team of students calling themselves YES2 is probably the most interesting and record breaking experiment. The primary idea was to create a space tether that.
When we look at the star filled night sky most of us do not realize we are looking back in time. The stars, planets and other matters in the space separated from us by tens, hundreds and thousands of light years, shows the history of the cosmic objects.
In 1990, when the Hubble space telescope was launched in space, the orbiting telescope opened a new era of cosmic information. Since then, it has been an astounding source of information with its most splendid breathtaking pictures of inner space...
For centuries, men have wondered whether we are alone in this universe or there are other living beings similar to us in the giant cosmos. While science fictions have delved into the world of extra-terrestrials, but astronomers are yet to discover...
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