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A very powerful solar storm is rotating towards Earth
It is reported that a “super-active” sun spot is rotating on a trajectory towards Earth that could erupt at anytime, causing a massive solar storm. Our planet will be in the storm’s sights by the weekend, say reports. In one 24-hour period over the past weekend, the sun unleashed the three most powerful solar flares recorded [… Read More]
Private firm Orbital Sciences launches its Antares rocket
Orbital Sciences, one of the two private US companies chosen by NASA to shuttle cargo to the International Space Station. The Antares rocket which is 131 feet (40 metres) tall and 12.8 feet (3.9 metres) in diameter, was launched on Sunday. Liftoff of the two-stage launch vehicle took place at 2100 GMT at the Wallops Flight Facility on [… Read More]
Astronomers discover two more Earth-like planets
Astronomers discovered the two Earth-like planets while scanning the skies with a potent NASA space telescope. Two of the five planets orbiting a sun-like star called Kepler-62 exist in what astronomers describe as the habitable zone – not too hot, not too cold and possibly having water, researchers say in the journal Science. “These two are [… Read More]
When our galaxy swallowed another
Australian astronomers discovered a ‘dwarf’ galaxy that was attacked and completely annihilated by our own. Researchers at the Australian Astronomy Observatory were trying to chart the first chapter of our galaxy’s history when they made the discovery. Fred Watson, the astronomer in charge of the Observatory, said that his team were trying to measure the radial velocity [… Read More]
