After the NASA scientists said that the Moon might be shrinking, there is another theory going around the web about the “two moons” that will show up on Friday night, August 27. Well, if you believe this theory then you might check your sources because there won’t be two moons on the sky on Friday [...]
Let’s hope we won’t be forced to watch a thick cloud cover in the following few days, as nature is preparing the most spectacular light show for us this week: the dazzling return of the Perseid meteors. Every year, around the middle of the year, our planet passes through a cloud of space debris left [...]
The largest star ever known to human kind has been discovered at the edge of our galaxy. British astronomers have said the new discovered star is 320 more than the mass of the Sun. The discovery was made by Paul Crowther and his team from the University of Sheffield. It seems that the largest star [...]
Astronomers celebrated today the formal acceptance of the first North American antenna by the Joint ALMA Observatory. ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, is a gathering armada of short-wavelength radio telescopes whose combined power will enable astronomers to probe with unprecedented sharpness phenomena and regions that are beyond the reach of visible-light telescopes. The observatory [...]