Black holes are the cosmic monsters of the universe. These violent objects are anything but empty, dark regions lurking in space. Black holes are bodies of matter packed so tightly that not even light can …
Category: Astronomy
1400 light-years away in the constellation of Auriga is one of the strangest exoplanets discovered so far. The dark, egg-shaped world, Wasp 12B. Wasp 12B is a class of Exoplanet known as an “ultra-hot Jupiter”, …
Many years ago, the astronomer Carl Sagan famously said that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth’s beaches. It is impossible to know exactly how many stars are out …
In the darkness of space, billions of miles from home NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are exploring a region where nothing from Earth has explored before. The journey started in 1977 when NASA took …
Saturn and it’s spectacular icy ring system has fascinated it’s observers for hundreds of years ever since Galileo first pointed his telescope at it in the year 1610. It’s not just the Saturn’s enormous rings …
We do not know what the last star in the universe will be like exactly. But the one thing we do know is that, most likely at a certain point in the future there is …