All About Space !

Can you identify the planets in the night sky? If you have never studied astronomy or somehow have little knowledge about up sky heaven, then you are not able to identify planets in the night sky. Have you ever wondered how the planets look like from our Earth? I’m sure you have never noticed the bright shiny object in the sky. It seems to be a star in the night sky. But it is brighter than the usual star can be seen in the below picture. Let me acknowledge you about some facts by which you can easily differentiate between planets and stars in the night sky. First of all the general definition of both the object which may everyone know. The Planets: A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star. A planet is a large object such as Jupiter or Earth that orbits a star. Planets are smaller than stars, and they do not produce light. A star and everything which orbits it are called a star system. There are eight planets in our Solar System. The Star...

Binoculars | How to find a Perfect one. Are you a stargazer or you want to spend your leisure time by observing the sky Binoculars are the best mate for you. The basic purpose of binoculars is to magnify long distant object but people love to watch the sky with them.   Most binoculars are one of the essential gadgets to observe the heavens. It has more benefits over telescopes because they are quite cheap and handy, which is the best thing about binoculars. So the question is how to select a good binocular, its range, its magnification, reliability, and its lens quality. Here are some good suggestions along with the direct link where you can buy any of them which are suitable for you. Binoculars are often specified by a set of numbers such as 7×35 or 8×40, the first number indicates the strength of magnification (how many times closer the subject is to you, 5 times closer, 7 times closer, 10 times closer) and the second number is the size of the objective lens ...

Why Eclipses Do Not Occur Every Month? If moon orbit is perfectly aligned with Earth, we get a solar eclipse every new moon and a lunar eclipse every full moon. But we don’t because Moon’s orbit is tilted 5° with respect to Earth. Eclipse: "Eclipse is an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer, or between it and its source of illumination".  Phases of The Moon: The phases of the Moon are caused by its orbital motion The phases of the Moon occur because light from the Moon is actually reflected sunlight. As the relative positions of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun change, we see more or less of the illuminated half of the Moon. Time and the Moon: Two types of months are used in describing the motion of the Moon.  1. With respect to the stars, the Moon completes one orbit around the Earth in a sidereal month, averaging 27.32 days.  2. The Moon completes ...

Do you know the reason for Solar Eclipse? Many of us don't know how the Eclipses occur so here is the detail of Solar Eclipse. Solar Eclipse caused by the moon making a small shadow on the Earth.  Solar eclipses can be either total, partial, or annular, depending on the alignment of the Sun, Earth, and Moon.  Remember that it is not safe to stare at a solar eclipse! Try these gadgets for safety. Total and Partial Solar Eclipse: The moon creates a small shadow which Only allows certain areas of the earth to see a total solar eclipse.  Observers in the “umbra” shadow see a total eclipse (safe to view the Sun). They can see the corona and those who are in “penumbra” see a partial eclipse which is not safe to look directly on Sun. Total Solar Eclipse lasts for a few minutes. You can understand the terms "Umbra" and "Penumbra" in the below picture. The Path of Totality is the area covered by the shadow of the moon about which ...

The First Ever Image Of A Black Hole The first-ever image of a black hole is now revealed. it is taken by the event horizon telescope (EHT). the supermassive black hole pictured is at the center of Messier 87, a massive elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. it is located 55 million light years from earth and has a mass 6.5 billion times larger than our sun. this is a huge achievement, not only because it confirms Eintsines general theory of relativity, but because it opens up the possibility for visual observation of a black hole immediate environment. Do you know what are black holes and how do they form? Most people think of a black hole as a voracious whirlpool in space, sucking down everything around it. But that’s not really true! A black hole is a place where gravity has gotten so strong that the escape velocity is faster than light. But what does that mean, exactly? For the Earth, that velocity is about 11 kilometers per second (7 miles/second). But an ...

Ancient Egyptian Achievements in Astronomy The old Egyptian progress was one of the first and most prominent civic establishments all in all world and the way that the old Egyptians had done numerous accomplishments which secured most sides of the human life, including the political and social upgrades, also, their advances in numerous science majors. We should speak now about what they have accomplished in the study of cosmology. The Egyptians were extremely intrigued by the stars and heavenly bodies and they gave much enjoy that energizing science. From the Center Kingdom, heavenly bodies were regularly delineated on pine boxes as star timekeepers, demonstrating the period of time stars were unmistakable or undetectable. From the New Kingdom, roofs of tombs and sanctuaries frequently showed the heavenly body of stars. These heavenly bodies were equivalent to the ones we see today however spoke to in an unexpected way. For instance, Orion was spoken to as a man turning his hea...