Space and astronomy news
Thanks to a recent study by an international team of researchers, scientists now know why rapidly-spinning black holes blast out jets of charged particles.
A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge recently showed how the Gaia mission could also help in the search for gravitational waves.
In a classic swords to plowshares move, two converted WB-57 aircraft flown by NASA’s Airborne Science Program and scientists from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado will greet the shadow of the Moon as it rushes across the contiguous United States on Monday, August 21st on a daring mission of science.
Located in the constellation Virgo, and at a distance of 55.9 million light years from Earth, is Messier 49 – an elliptical galaxy that is part of the Virgo cluster
A team of astrophysicists from UZH has simulated the formation of the entire Universe, producing a catalog that will help unlock the secrets of the “Dark Universe”.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of NASA astronomers has repeated an old experiment that was used to confirm General Relativity
Measuring about 91 billion light years in diameter and being 13.8 billion years old, the Universe encompasses all matter, energy, time and space in existence.
Since the constellations are based on their appearance from Earth, the Sun does not belong to any. But if you could go to another star system, it would certainly look that way!
The average distance between the Sun and the Earth – 149,597,870.7 km (or 92,955,807 mi) – is known as an Astronomical Unit (AU).
As the closest (and most eccentric) planet to our Sun, Mercury’s distance ranges from 46 million km (28.58 million mi) at perihelion to 57.9 million km (35.98 million mi) at aphelion.