Discover what exist in the universe
At first glance, the Earth seems like a fairly spherical shape, but when you look closely, it’s obvious that it’s actually not perfectly round. In fact, if you were to draw an outline of the Earth on paper, it would be quite different from how we see it in photographs […]
Telescopes are great for many reasons. They allow you to see things that you would normally not be able to see with the naked eye. By using these devices, you can view the moon and stars, planets and galaxies, as well as animals and flowers from a distance. But what’s […]
Europa is often called Earth’s sister planet, and it has striking similarities to our own home in many ways. One of the most intriguing aspects of Europa, though, lies beneath its frozen surface — scientists suspect that the ocean that covers Europa may contain more than twice as much water […]
There are actually two things named Gargantua that are quite similar to each other, but ultimately different. If you’re looking for the fictional world as depicted in the epic novel Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais, you’ll want to read more about Gargantua, which was also the name of the […]
The Gargantua Black Hole lives up to its name, being the largest known object in the entire universe. Located in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, it weighs roughly 4 million times as much as our sun and it’s about 12 billion light years from Earth. What Is A […]
Sagittarius A* (pronounced Sagittarius A-star or Sagittarius A-sub-star) was first discovered using radio telescope data in 1974 and has been measured to be 25,000 light years away from earth, making it the center of the Milky Way galaxy and one of the largest black holes known to exist. Because of […]
The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy (and most others) isn’t any different from the black holes you can find all around the universe. Except one thing — it’s massive! In fact, it has a mass equivalent to some 4 million suns, and it sits about 26,000 […]
We tend to think of the Solar System as stable, unchanging, and predictable – but the truth is that it’s actually far more complicated than we can imagine! Here are 10 mindblowing facts about the solar system that will change how you view the universe Size The solar system is […]
We’ve all learned in school that the solar system has nine planets, plus a few dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. But did you know that those nine planets orbit around the Sun in the same plane? From Earth, we can only see five of the planets, […]
So what does the James Webb Telescope, which will be orbiting 1 million miles from Earth, have to do with the Big Bang? Plenty, actually. The telescope will allow scientists to see farther into the past than ever before, revealing previously unknown details about our universe’s formation and expansion. It […]
