The International Space Station is seen in this 30 second exposure as it flies over Virginia in 2015. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls. Lots of things change in the night sky. Stars rise and set during the night; constellations come and go as the seasons pass; planets waltz along the ecliptic, visiting the zodiacal constellations on their…

New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) SPACE India, a space educational organisation, has joined hands with the American Center to launch an astronomy and space science workshop series, it said on Tuesday. The once-a-month workshop series aims to foster space science and astronomy education at the grassroots level and also marks a significant milestone in the…

A growing number of researchers in the field are using their expertise to fight the climate crisis. On the morning of Jan. 18, 2003, Penny Sackett, then director of the Australian National University’s Mount Stromlo Observatory outside Canberra, received a concerning email from a student at the facility. Bush fires that had been on the…

SPACE India, American Center to launch astronomy & space science workshop series IANS   |  14 May 2024 5:59 AM GMT Highlights SPACE India, a space educational organisation, has joined hands with the American Center to launch an astronomy and space science workshop series, it said on Tuesday. New Delhi: SPACE India, a space educational…

For many decades, the USA has been at the forefront of astronomy, whether with ground-based telescopes or space-based observatories like Hubble and the JWST. Yet this is now at risk as US astronomers are forced to choose between funding either the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) or the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) as part of the…

About 9.2 billion light-years from Earth is a colossal structure which has confounded astronomers. The discovery might upend current cosmological theories. What they’ve found is a 1.3-billion-light-year-across, almost perfect ring of galaxies. No such structure has been seen before. And it doesn’t match any known formation mechanism. It has been dubbed the “Big Ring.” The…

13 May 2024 Expert commentary Solar flares and storms have the potential to damage satellites, knock down power grids, and — as seen this weekend — trigger bright auroras.  Solar activity is closely linked with the number of sunspots, or bundles of magnetically charged plasma, which can collide, shear, and snap, sending strong radiation out…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected the best evidence to date for the existence of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet. The discovery could aid the continued search for habitable planets outside our solar system. “55 Cancri e” is a hot rocky planet orbiting a star 41 light-years from Earth. Its orbit is…

What it is: CG 4, a “cometary globule” often called “God’s Hand” Where it is: Gum Nebula, 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Puppis (the “poop deck”) When it was shared: May 6, 2024 Why it’s so special: CG 4 is a fairly typical cloud of gas and dust where stars are being born, but…

Some people see a face in the moon; others see a rabbit or a toad. But regardless of what you see on the lunar surface, we all view the same side of our natural satellite. So why don’t we ever see the far side of the moon? From Earth, it appears as if the moon…