NASA’s supernova warning: Eta Carinae - 100 times bigger than the Sun - might explode any day nowEta Carinae, 10,000 light-years away from the Earth, is a star system poised for a potential supernova. Noted for its 19th-century 'superno...
08 Aug, 2024, 02.26 PM IST
What secrets do NASA's 25 stunning Chandra X-ray photos reveal? Here is all you need to knowNASA has shared 25 X-ray photos captured with Chandra with the public in observance of the observatory's 25 years of existence. These photo...
27 Jul, 2024, 06.20 PM IST
What stunning pictures has NASA revealed on Chandra X-Ray Observatory's 25th anniversary? Here are the detailsNASA unveiled breathtaking new photographs captured by the telescope to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. ...
26 Jul, 2024, 01.15 AM IST
Is there a lighthouse in space pointing towards the Earth?An image from the James Webb Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray reveals a nebula that has a lighthouse shape and this is pointed towards the e...
11 Jun, 2024, 02.11 AM IST
Cosmic marvel: 'God's Hand' in Milky Way captured in mesmerizing telescope imagesThe Dark Energy Camera (DECam), developed by the US Department of Energy, has captured an image of CG 4, a cometary globule in the Gum Nebu...
14 May, 2024, 05.17 PM IST
How old and big is the oldest black hole? MIT measures it using James Webb Space Telescope images. Details hereSpace scientists have analyzed the images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope and have received the first-ever look at the light of anc...
10 May, 2024, 08.06 PM IST
Photo of Hamas parading woman's naked body wins Picture of the Year award; Internet reacts with furyAccording to a rabbi who spoke with her family, Shani Louk had suffered torture before her death. She held German and Israeli citizenship a...
29 Mar, 2024, 04.30 PM IST
NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Way's 'downtown'It's a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, depicting billions of stars and c...
29 May, 2021, 07.03 PM IST
- NASA's Hubble captured first image of surviving companion to supernova
Washington, April 27 (IANS) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first image of a surviving companion to a supernova, a compellin...
27 Apr, 2018, 09.52 AM IST
- Astronomers capture most distant star ever seen
Washington, April 2 (IANS) American astronomers have captured the most distant normal star ever observed, some 9 billion light years from E...
02 Apr, 2018, 11.17 PM IST
- Amateur astronomer snaps exploding star's rare first light
New York, Feb 22 (IANS) Images captured by an amateur astronomer in Argentina has helped scientists obtain their first view of the initial ...
22 Feb, 2018, 11.32 AM IST
Universe expanding faster than thought: StudyAstronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made a measurement of how fast the Universe is expanding.
30 Jan, 2017, 12.53 PM IST
NASA's Hubble captures 'beating heart' of Crab NebulaThe neutron star at the very centre of the Crab Nebula has about the same mass as the Sun but compressed into an incredibly dense sphere th...
10 Jul, 2016, 02.30 PM IST
Stephen Hawking to announce plans to map entire known universeThe Cosmos computer will plot the position and movement of billions of galaxies, black holes, supernovas and other cosmic structures, 'The ...
26 Jun, 2016, 06.27 PM IST
Hubble captures cluster of dazzling diamond-like stars, brightest in the Milky WaySince the cluster is only 500,000 years old, it has one of the highest concentrations of massive, luminous stars in the entire Milky Way.
22 Jan, 2016, 12.23 PM IST
- Hubble captures images of first-ever predicted supernova
The supernova, nicknamed Refsdal, has been spotted in the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223.
17 Dec, 2015, 01.36 PM IST
Astronomers peek through supernova using radio telescopes in Australia and ChileThe supernova, was first seen in S Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at edge of a dwarf galaxy called Large Magellanic...
11 Nov, 2014, 06.23 PM IST