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 meas

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 one