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The first four days of the new year 2012 have seen four new exoplanets added to the list of these heavenly bodies known to mankind. All of them are called “Hot Jupiters”. They are large hot planets orbitting a nearby star. They are all in line with earth and make the star dim when they pass in front of it. ... Read More »

NASA scientists Dr. Tony Philips & Dr. Bill Cooke have developed an iPhone app which lets skytrackers track the meteors’ movement far above in the sky. The app is now available at iTunes store for download. You can use this app to track upcoming meteor Geminid, which would be visible between December 12,2011 and December 16,2011. 13 Dec 2011 is ... Read More »

Kepler spacecraft of NASA which searches for new planets has found an alien world in a habitable zone of star which can allow for life and water to exist. The Kepler also discovered 1000 new planets, bringing the count of discovered planets outside our solar system to 2326 found using this spacecraft. This number has been achieved in 16 months ... Read More »

Astronomers at University of California have discovered two of the biggest black holes ever seen having mass billions of times greater than sun. They are located in the middle of galaxies million light years away from earth. They have masses about 10 billion times greater than sun. Previous biggest blackhole known had a mass 6.3 times mass of sun. One ... Read More »

(UPDATE): Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) which was reportedly going to fall back on earth between Friday and Monday has been spotted entering earth’s atmosphere on Sunday, as per latest reports. The time of entry was 0145 and 0215 GMT. German Aerospace Centre confirmed the entry of satellite today but no evidence of debris has reached earth before the satellite itself. It ... Read More »

After a NASA Satellite fell back on earth weeks ago, another satellite is set to make its return with its debris entering earth around Friday. This was revealed by the German Aerospace Center spokesperson on 19 Oct 2011. Scientists are unable communicate with the dead German satellite ROSAT, which orbits the earth every 90 minutes. Experts are not sure exactly ... Read More »

How big is universe ? Several methods have been tried, each with a figure that’s new. Astronomers have been trying for long to determine how vast is our universe ? This is crucial as the expansion or contraction of universe is linked to many events that take place in it. Meanwhile, astronomers in Copenhagen, Neil Bohr Institute have found a ... Read More »

Astronomers have spotted a planet running around a small star which seems to be made of diamond. It lies 4000 lightyears away from earth. Scientists got the hunch of it being made of diamond by the fact that it is the denser of any planets known so far, primarily because of huge carbon content which is in crystalline form (diamond). ... Read More »

US Astronomers have started project to detect presence of alien by a massive radio telescope on around 86 earth like planets.   The massive dish began pointing towards each of the 86 planets this week, the planets being selected from among the list of 1235 possible planets detected by NASA’s Kepler telescope. The mission is a part of the SETI ... Read More »

In Tarantula Nebula in the large Magellanic cloud, a galaxy which is a neighbour to our milky way, a huge star is shining which is the brightest and biggest star known yet. At a distance of 165,000 lightyears, this star known as R136a1 is 265 times as massive as our solar system’s sun and a 10 million times brighter than ... Read More »