Sun On Earth

Astronomers have long thought that it takes millions of years for a star like our Sun to form completely. But recent observations via the world's largest radio telescope FAST are casting doubt on this long-held belief. The new study has revealed that stars could form much faster than previously thought.

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have identified a black hole having 200,000 times the mass of the Sun in Mrk 462, a dwarf galaxy with only several hundred million stars. In comparison, our Milky Way has a few hundred billion stars.

Cryptocurrency pioneer Justin Sun will fly to space on billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin's flight next year and invite five other crew mates.

A solar storm warning has been issued, with an expert saying that at least two “big-flare players” could be released from the Sun soon. Space weather physicist Dr. Tamitha Skov said that many sunspot clusters could be seen from the Earth. She added that though there were “no large Earth-directed storms yet,” they were on “high alert.”

Scientists have warned that a nearby star experienced an energy blast at least 10 times bigger than the biggest CME the Sun has ever recorded in a warning to earth.

The last solar eclipse of 2021 will occur on December 4. People in the Southern Hemisphere will be able to experience a total or partial eclipse of the Sun. A solar eclipse takes place when the Moon occupies a position between the Sun and Earth in a straight line.

The longest lunar eclipse or chandra grahan, the longest of this century, takes place today, November 19 as the Earth passes between the Sun and Moon, creating a shadow on the Moon's surface.

An intense X1-class solar flare is scheduled to hit the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday, October 31, NASA has said.

NASA shared a captivating image of the International Space Station (ISS) transiting the Sun when two astronauts were out on a spacewalk on Friday. The ISS is seen in silhouette against the yellow-orange background of the sun.

The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometres) of our planet on March 21, NASA said.

A spacecraft bound for Mercury swung by Venus on Thursday, using Earth's neighbour to adjust its course on the way to the solar system’s smallest and innermost planet. .

Ozone Day 2020: Life on our planet as we know would not be possible without the ozone layer. Ozone is a highly reactive gas found in the upper layers of the atmosphere and protects life on earth from the Sun's harsh ultraviolet rays. World Ozone Day is observed on September 16 every year. This year the slogan for World Ozone Day is 'Ozone For Life'...

NASA's most advanced Mars rover, Perseverance, launches from Earth on July 30, on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life on what was once a river delta three-and-a-half billion years ago.

Astronomers have captured a red dwarf star called AD Leonis that is found to have massive flares — one of them was even 20 times larger than the solar flares emitted by our own Sun. The star is just 16 light-years away from Earth.

Pluto, a frigid little world inhabiting the solar system's outer reaches, may have been born as a warmer place sheltering a subsurface ocean that still exists today, researchers said on Monday.

Astronomers have long thought that it takes millions of years for a star like our Sun to form completely. But recent observations via the world's largest radio telescope FAST are casting doubt on this long-held belief. The new study has revealed that stars could form much faster than previously thought.

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have identified a black hole having 200,000 times the mass of the Sun in Mrk 462, a dwarf galaxy with only several hundred million stars. In comparison, our Milky Way has a few hundred billion stars.

Cryptocurrency pioneer Justin Sun will fly to space on billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin's flight next year and invite five other crew mates.

A solar storm warning has been issued, with an expert saying that at least two “big-flare players” could be released from the Sun soon. Space weather physicist Dr. Tamitha Skov said that many sunspot clusters could be seen from the Earth. She added that though there were “no large Earth-directed storms yet,” they were on “high alert.”

Scientists have warned that a nearby star experienced an energy blast at least 10 times bigger than the biggest CME the Sun has ever recorded in a warning to earth.

The last solar eclipse of 2021 will occur on December 4. People in the Southern Hemisphere will be able to experience a total or partial eclipse of the Sun. A solar eclipse takes place when the Moon occupies a position between the Sun and Earth in a straight line.

The longest lunar eclipse or chandra grahan, the longest of this century, takes place today, November 19 as the Earth passes between the Sun and Moon, creating a shadow on the Moon's surface.

An intense X1-class solar flare is scheduled to hit the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday, October 31, NASA has said.

NASA shared a captivating image of the International Space Station (ISS) transiting the Sun when two astronauts were out on a spacewalk on Friday. The ISS is seen in silhouette against the yellow-orange background of the sun.

The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometres) of our planet on March 21, NASA said.

A spacecraft bound for Mercury swung by Venus on Thursday, using Earth's neighbour to adjust its course on the way to the solar system’s smallest and innermost planet. .

Ozone Day 2020: Life on our planet as we know would not be possible without the ozone layer. Ozone is a highly reactive gas found in the upper layers of the atmosphere and protects life on earth from the Sun's harsh ultraviolet rays. World Ozone Day is observed on September 16 every year. This year the slogan for World Ozone Day is 'Ozone For Life'...

NASA's most advanced Mars rover, Perseverance, launches from Earth on July 30, on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life on what was once a river delta three-and-a-half billion years ago.

Astronomers have captured a red dwarf star called AD Leonis that is found to have massive flares — one of them was even 20 times larger than the solar flares emitted by our own Sun. The star is just 16 light-years away from Earth.

Pluto, a frigid little world inhabiting the solar system's outer reaches, may have been born as a warmer place sheltering a subsurface ocean that still exists today, researchers said on Monday.