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...
Thursday, 29 June 2017
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...
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
HXMT - China First Telescope Launch
HXMT - HARD X-RAY MODULATION TELESCOPE (CHINA ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY)Today China launches HXMT Mission for its X-Ray based astronomical Observation. It will observe black holes, neutron stars and other gas nebulae based on its X-Ray and Gamma-Ray emissions. It is the China's First Astronomical Satellite....
Messenger
Messenger Spacecraft around Mercury MESSENGER - Mercury Surface Space Environment was an Robotic spacecraft of NASA which orbited Mercury between 2011 and 2015 to study Mercury Chemical Composition, geology and magnetic field.It became second spacecraft to orbit around Mercury after...
Tuesday, 13 June 2017
Cool Dust around Energetic Active Black Holes
Dust around Active Black Holes Researchers from the University of Texas, San Antonio found cool dust around energetic active black holes during their observation from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). Large galaxies has massive black holes...
Gamma-Ray Spectrometer
Gamma-Ray Spectrometer is an instrument to measure the distribution of gamma radiation. The Study and analysis of gamma-ray spectra is called as Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy. This spectrometer used in spacecrafts to observe and collect data by measuring the energy of each photon....
Thermal Infrared Spectrometer
Thermal Infrared Spectrometer is a type of Infrared Spectrometer which emits radiation in the infrared part of electromagnetic spectrum. It measures the thermal infrared radiation emitted from the Sample solution or Land Surface. This instrument is mostly used in planet exploration...
R-136 Cluster of Magellanic Nebulae
This Magnificent Image of R136 Cluster was taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Great Magellanic Nebula. This cluster is located about 170,000 light years away from Earth. This R136 cluster has very large, hot and bright stars. Astronomers have found nine stars in that cluster which is 100 times...
Monday, 12 June 2017
Hayabusa-2
Hayabusa-2 Mission to Asteroid to clarify the origin and evolution of Solar System as well as life in our universe.This spacecraft is also known as "Asteroid Explorer" which is the creation of several new technologies. Hayabusa-2 is a successor of Hayabusa (MUSES-C). It will...
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