Astronomy

This astounding view of galaxy cluster MACSJ0025 demonstrates how ordinary matter and mysterious dark matter interact. The blue cloud-shaped parts flanking the centre show the position of dark matter, mapped by the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The pink middle indicates ordinary matter, charted by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The [...]

Commemorating the 100,000th orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope around the earth, scientists have aimed it to take a snapshot of a dazzling region of celestial birth and renewal. The Hubble’s camera peered into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074. The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, [...]

We sometime seeing full moon on the horizon, and thinks that it seems larger than usual. It is actually an illusion. Because we are accustomed to seeing clouds only a few miles overhead but clouds touching the horizon are hundreds of miles away, our minds induce us to believe that things on the horizon are [...]

A partial lunar eclipse will took place on August 16, 2008. It is visibile primarily from the Eastern Hemisphere as well as eastern South America. Greatest eclipse takes place at 21:10:06 UT when the eclipse magnitude will reach 0.8076. The timings of the major phases of the eclipse are listed below. Penumbral Eclipse Begins: [...]

While using the www.galaxyzoo.org website to classify images of galaxies, Hanny van Arkel, a Dutch school teacher, and volunteer in the Galaxy Zoo project, found this object on the archived images of the night sky. Soon after she posted about the image, it became known as “Hanny’s Voorwerp” (Dutch for “object”) on the Galaxy Zoo [...]