Friday, 14 July 2017

Saraswathy Cluster by Indian Scientists

Saraswathy Cluster discovered by Indian AstronomersIndian Astronomers have made a significant discovery by identifying extremely large superstar cluster known as Saraswathy cluster which is located in the direction of Constellation Pisces.This Supercluster is located about 4 billion light years away...

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Libya Montes on Mars

Libya Montes on Mars Image Credit: ESAThe colour coded image of highland terrain Lybia Montes on Mars. The coloured image shows various depths and heights of the terrain. Image was taken by ESA's Mars Express (orbiter around Mars) on 21 February 2017.Colour Code Indicating various heights..Red...

Space Cloud W51

Space Cloud W51      Chandra X-Ray Space Observatory has spotted a space gas molecular cloud which was named as W51 cloud and it is very closest to our earth. It is something about 17,000 light years far away from us. Its image provides excellent opportunity to study the forming of stars...

Tuesday, 11 July 2017

Juno Flyby near Red Spot of Jupiter

Great Red Spot of Jupiter. Image taken by Cassini Spacecraft National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) Juno Spacecraft flied over Jupiter's great Red Spot on 10 July 2017. The above image was taken with Cassini's Narrow Wide Angle Camera on 29 December 2000. Red spot...

Saturday, 8 July 2017

Hubble Hidden Galaxy

Hidden Galaxy Image captured by Hubble Space Telescope     IC 342 Cluster is a hidden galaxy because it is difficult to see and image. This star cluster or galaxy is located near the equator of our Milkyway galaxy. This cluster has bright glowing gases, brightest stars and dust around...

Friday, 7 July 2017

Hubble Spotted Clumps of New Stars

Clumps of New Star | Image Credit : NASA Hubble Space Telescope     This image reveals the formation of new stars in galaxy which are spinning each other at a distance of 200 to 300 light year away from Earth. Hubble Space Telescope team were trying to understand the formation of universe...

Thursday, 6 July 2017

India's GSAT-17 Successfully Launched

GSAT-17 Indian Communication SatelliteGeoStationary Satellite GSAT-17 India's communication satellite successfully launched on 29 June 2017 from Kourou, French Guiana Space Center by Ariane - V238 Rocket. It weighted 3477 kilogram on lift-off and have some payloads,Special Instruments:C- BandExtended...

New Horizons to a New Flyby to MU69 Object

 NASA's New Horizon targets to a next flyby on 1 January 2019 beyond dwarf planet Pluto. It will reach Kupier Belt after successful flyby around Pluto.Horizons aimed to perform flyby around most smallest object in the Kupier Belt which was called MU69. Ground based occultation estimated that the...

Monday, 3 July 2017

Successful test of Scramjet Engine

Scramjet - Air Breathing Propulsion System. Indian Space Research Organisation successfully tested its experimental launch of air breathing ticket "Scramjet Engine" on 28th August 2016 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikotta. The fight duration was 300 seconds, after its flight it reached Bay...

Sunday, 2 July 2017

Viking-2-Orbiter

Viking-2 Orbiter (One of the mission of Viking Program)    Viking-2 Orbiter is a part of Viking Program and similar to Viking-1-Program  sent to Mars.This mission consist of a Orbiter and a Lander. It was the second landing on the surface of Mars.Viking-2 was launched on 9 September...

Saturday, 1 July 2017

Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope to Observe night sky objects from the Space     Hubble Space Telescope is a American (National Aeronautics Space Administration) space telescope launched into space to observe night sky objects which are invisible from our Earth telescopes. The most largest...

Thursday, 29 June 2017

Niagara-Falls of Mars

 Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance orbiter image shows the signs of flowing lava which looks like Niagara Falls. This lava flows from north-east. This lava flows from a 30 kilometer diameter volcano located in the Theresis volcanic province.&nb...

Saturday, 24 June 2017

Mangalyaan Completes 1000 Days in Orbit

Mangalyaan Spacecraft around Mars     Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), Mangalyaan - the first successful interplanetary mission of India was launched on 5 November 2013 and it was carried by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C25). It was successfully inserted into Martian orbit on...

Starbursts in Virgo Constellation

     Nowadays formation and evolution of galaxies are still not understood properly, this galaxies are called Starburst Galaxy. What is starburst Galaxy?     Starburst galaxy have a region where most of the stars form at a breakneck rate and the galaxy is eating...

Friday, 23 June 2017

Hubble to Capture galaxy with Gravitational Lens

Hubble Space Telescope shows fast-spinning disk shaped galaxy     Hubble Space Telescope uses Gravitational Lens to Capture fast spinning Disk Galaxy. Gravity of a massive galaxy cluster MACS J2129-0741 brightens and magnifies the far distant galaxy in the background galaxy MACS2129-1...

Wednesday, 21 June 2017

New Catalog of Exoplanets by Kepler Space Telescope

     Team of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope team has released a catalog containing 219 new planets, 10 of which are Earth seized orbiting the star in the habitable zone.This is a detailed catalog containing many exoplanets outside our solar system. It is also a final spacecraft view...

Saturday, 17 June 2017

Colored Clouds of Jupiter

     NASA's Juno Jupiter Spacecraft was moving away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass. JunoCam imaged this on 19 May 2017 from about 29,100 miles above the cloud tops.     The Images shows variety in Jupiter's Stormy atmosphere. The result is a surreal...

Cyclone in Jupiter

 Jupiter's Polar cyclones producing auroras, this image was taken by Juno spacecraft of NASA. Juno was sent to study Jupiter's atmosphere, auroras, storms, and both poles. It takes a long time to carry a research on Jupiter. Juno entered Jupiter's orbit on 4 July 2016, and the primary aim is understand...

Hubble's Spirograph IC418 Nebulae

IC 418 Nebulae from Hubble Space Telescope     A Hubble Image showing planetary nebula IC 418 glows like multifaceted jewel. It lies about 2000 light years away from our Earth in the constellation Lepus. This planetary nebula indicates the final stage of Star Evolution similar to...

Top 10 Discoveries of MAVEN

     MAVEN is an American Spacecraft which was launched in 2013 and inserted into Martian Orbit on September 2014. Since its launch it have been exploring Mars Upper atmosphere. MAVEN has made wonderful discoveries of upper atmosphere of Mars, NASA celebrated its 1000 days of orbit...

Thursday, 15 June 2017

Kosmos 419

Kosmos 419 was also known as 3MS-No.170 orbiter. It was a failed Soviet spacecraft to Mars. It was launched on 10 May 1971 from Baikanour launch pad, Russia and Kosmos was carried by Proton K/D rocket. Due to malfunction of rocket engine, it decayed in low earth orbit after launch on 12 May 1971.SIMULTANEOUS...

BepiColombo

          BepiColombo will become third spacecraft to Mercury scheduled to launch in October 2018.. It is a joint mission between European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to the Mercury. This mission comprises of two satellite Mercury...