Space Archives – Page 12 of 14

A Coronal Mass Ejection means that the corona, a layer of the sun, explodes, ejecting particles into space. Supernova cosmic rays or…

Radio astronomers working with a radio dish telescope detected something a bit unusual. They were seeing a very fast radio burst, faster and…

In a last scientific hurrah, the Cassini spacecraft has detected that hydrogen is being ejected from the moon’s ice-covered ocean.

Large stars and planets in space have intense gravity. The gravity of these large celestial bodies is so strong, that they actually warp the…

Our understanding of astrophysics states that we should be seeing co-orbiting planets when astronomers look through their telescopes.…

51 Pegasi b is a roughly jupiter-sized planet around a star pretty similar to our sun. This planet has been part of astronomy conversations…

At the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole. This is normal — at the center of almost every galaxy there is…

Galaxies come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Many galaxies are in the shape of spirals, including our own Milky Way Galaxy. The movement…

Stars and planets are most often categorized by their mass. In astronomy, the “initial mass function” is used for this categorization.…

Did you know that a black hole is a kind of star? What would it really be like if our sun, also a star, was a black hole?

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