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NASA Confirms It Did Not Add A New Zodiac Sign

NASA Confirms It Did Not Add A New Zodiac Sign

NASA has confirmed that there has been no change to the existing 12-star signs following social media rumors that another zodiac sign, Ophiuchus, had been added, the Independent reported. The rumor of a new zodiac sign has resurfaced several times on social media in the past few years. NASA initially acknowledged it in 2016 but […]

4y ago

A Supermassive Black Hole Is Firing Out Jets At 99 Percent The Speed of Light

A Supermassive Black Hole Is Firing Out Jets At 99 Percent The Speed of Light

Astronomers are amazed at the discovery that a black hole in space is firing out jets of material at over 99 percent the speed of light, according to Universe Today. The black hole in question is at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy and accordingly has the name M87*. It is about 6.5 billion […]

4y ago

Scientists Are Confused After 100 Stars Vanished Into Thin Air

Scientists Are Confused After 100 Stars Vanished Into Thin Air

Scientists have been recently confounded by the latest astrophysical mystery after discovering that more than 100 stars in space have disappeared within the past 70 years, reports Air & Space Magazine. The discovery was made by a group from the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Sweden and was led by Beatriz Villarroel. The group, […]

4y ago

Scientists Have Just Discovered The Biggest Black Hole Ever & It’s Mindblowing

Scientists Have Just Discovered The Biggest Black Hole Ever & It’s Mindblowing

Though black holes are constantly offering scientists new space discoveries, astrophysicists are reeling after finding the largest black hole ever measured, per Astronomy. It was calculated as being 40 billion times the sun’s mass. It is so massive that another way to think about the size of this black hole is that it is equal […]

5y ago

The Black Hole In Our Galaxy Is Worrying Scientists: ‘We Have Never Seen Anything Like This’

The Black Hole In Our Galaxy Is Worrying Scientists: ‘We Have Never Seen Anything Like This’

Black holes are known to be a mysterious and misunderstood astronomical phenomenon, but scientists are particularly baffled by the one in our very galaxy after a new study revealed new unusual behavior. According to Science Daily, the black hole in the center of our galaxy, known as Sagittarius A, or Sgr A, normally does not […]

5y ago

Jupiter Was Slammed By Something So Big, Astronomers Saw It From Earth

Jupiter Was Slammed By Something So Big, Astronomers Saw It From Earth

The planet Jupiter was hit by something on Wednesday night, and the flash was so bright that an amateur astronomer caught it with his backyard telescope, CNET reports. On Wednesday night, August 7, Ethan Chappel was watching the skies when he had his telescope pointed in the right place at the right time. Specifically, it […]

5y ago

Massive Asteroid & Its Tiny Moon Caught On Camera During Close Flyby Of Earth

Massive Asteroid & Its Tiny Moon Caught On Camera During Close Flyby Of Earth

In late May, a massive, nearly mile-wide asteroid paid Earth a close visit, safely passing within 3.2 million miles of our planet’s surface. Dubbed asteroid 1999 KW4, the formidable space rock measured about 0.8 miles in diameter and was accompanied by its very own moon, as reported by The Inquisitr last month. The asteroid pair […]

5y ago

Jupiter And Some Of Its Brightest Moons Will Be Visible This Month With Just Binoculars

Jupiter And Some Of Its Brightest Moons Will Be Visible This Month With Just Binoculars

Jupiter and four of its brightest moons will be visible to backyard astronomers with only a pair of binoculars throughout the month of June, CNN reports. This is a rare treat as, most times, only people willing to spend the money on high-quality telescopes are able to view the celestial bodies. Jupiter is almost always […]

5y ago

Black Hole Picture Unveiled By Astronomers For The First Time Ever

Black Hole Picture Unveiled By Astronomers For The First Time Ever

A team of astronomers has released the first image of a black hole, which is located in a galaxy about 55 million light years from our own Milky Way. The image is something similar to what experts believed a black hole to look like — a circle of dust and gas surrounding a black center. […]

5y ago

Black Hole Picture Will Be Another Historic First In 2019

Black Hole Picture Will Be Another Historic First In 2019

Scientists may be on the verge of acquiring the first photos the human race has ever seen of a black hole. In a media advisory, The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration announced that there will be six concurrent press conferences around the world on April 10 to reveal its findings. According to its website, the […]

5y ago

Galaxies With Almost No Dark Matter Exist, Confirm Two Yale Studies

Galaxies With Almost No Dark Matter Exist, Confirm Two Yale Studies

In 2018, Yale University researchers published a groundbreaking study about galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 — the first known galaxy with little or no dark matter. As NASA pointed out, the galaxy is as large as our Milky Way. The agency’s Hubble Space Telescope was subsequently used to learn more about this mysterious and unique corner of […]

5y ago

Here Are The Top Five Astronomy Events To Look Forward To In 2019

Here Are The Top Five Astronomy Events To Look Forward To In 2019

While 2017 may have had people buzzing over a solar eclipse, 2019 has some astronomy events in store too, AccuWeather is reporting. The year 2019 is expected to have three supermoons, a blue moon, multiple meteor showers, and dozens of rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida. And these aren’t even considered the biggest events to […]

5y ago

Queen Guitarist Brian May’s ‘New Horizons’ Song About A Spacecraft Will Premiere At NASA Headquarters

Queen Guitarist Brian May’s ‘New Horizons’ Song About A Spacecraft Will Premiere At NASA Headquarters

Brian May may be one of the greatest rock guitarists alive, but the Queen co-founder also has a doctorate in astrophysics. Now, he is combining his two loves — music and astronomy — by releasing a brand-new song about a history-making NASA spacecraft. New Horizons, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s spacecraft, will be making […]

6y ago

The Earth Actually Has At Least Three Moons, Not Just One: Two Are Made Entirely Of Dust

The Earth Actually Has At Least Three Moons, Not Just One: Two Are Made Entirely Of Dust

The Earth doesn’t have just one Moon, it actually has three — possibly even more — although the two “newest” ones are made entirely of dust, the New York Post is reporting. You’ve likely believed since elementary school in the immutable and unimpeachable fact that the Earth has only one natural satellite: the Moon. That […]

6y ago

The ‘Blood Moon’ Has European Space Watchers Excited, But When Is The Next Blood Moon Visible In The U.S.?

The ‘Blood Moon’ Has European Space Watchers Excited, But When Is The Next Blood Moon Visible In The U.S.?

There’s going to be a “blood moon” on July 27, and it’s got European space watchers excited, and for good reason: This one is expected to be one of the most impressive in a century, according to Newsweek. So when is the next blood moon that will be visible in the United States? In about […]

6y ago

Blood Moon 2018 Prophecy Suggests July Eclipse Will Trigger End Of The World, Says Christian ‘Prophet’

Blood Moon 2018 Prophecy Suggests July Eclipse Will Trigger End Of The World, Says Christian ‘Prophet’

A Christian “prophet” is predicting that the Blood Moon that will occur in July will signal the end times, The Express is reporting. That prophet has predicted the end of the world multiple times before, however, and he’s always been wrong (or has he?). Paul Begley is an American Christian preacher who is all about […]

6y ago

Search For Aliens To Employ ‘ESPRESSO’: Black Box Detection Device A More Powerful Planet Hunter

Search For Aliens To Employ ‘ESPRESSO’: Black Box Detection Device A More Powerful Planet Hunter

Astronomers are set to get a powerful boost to their capabilities of detecting exoplanets and in determining whether or not said worlds circling faraway stars are Earth-like — and they’ll be provided that boost with a powerful new detection device, a black box known as ESPRESSO. Phys.org has reported that ESPRESSO, a spectrograph whose name […]

6y ago

Amateur Astronomer Found The IMAGE Satellite NASA Lost Contact With 12 Years Ago

Amateur Astronomer Found The IMAGE Satellite NASA Lost Contact With 12 Years Ago

While trying to locate ZUMA, amateur astronomer Scott Tilley accidentally discovered the first satellite NASA launched to relay images of the Earth’s magnetosphere. The Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration mission was killed back in 2005 after the space agency lost connection with the satellite. After the controversial ZUMA launch, there has been much […]

6y ago

No ‘Alien Megastructure’ Around Mysterious Dimming Star: Study Notes Effect Natural On A ‘Cosmic Scale’

No ‘Alien Megastructure’ Around Mysterious Dimming Star: Study Notes Effect Natural On A ‘Cosmic Scale’

A team of more than 200 researchers that includes Tabetha Boyajian, the Louisiana State astronomer that first detected the strangely dimming star that has become known as “Tabby’s Star,” and Jason Wright, the Penn State assistant professor who was part of the research team that originally posited that the star officially designated as KIC 8462852 […]

6y ago

Exciting Project Lyra Initiative Aims To Send Probe To Interstellar Asteroid ‘Oumuamua For Closer Study

Exciting Project Lyra Initiative Aims To Send Probe To Interstellar Asteroid ‘Oumuamua For Closer Study

The asteroid known as ‘Oumuamua is the very first interstellar asteroid that has ever been observed by scientists which makes it a very special object indeed, and now a new initiative known as Project Lyra will attempt to build a probe to send to the asteroid so that astronomers can study it in much greater, […]

7y ago

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