A total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a blood moon, because of the reddish tinge
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The brightest star of the night sky, Sirio, will surely draw your attention in the night sky at this time of the year. Once the sky darkens after 7:30 pm local time, Sirius will appear in the southeastern sky, in the lower left...
Sirius star, also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, is the brightest star in Earth’s night sky. The name means “glowing” in Greek — a fitting description, as only a few planets, the full moon and...
The sun explosion comes courtesy of a dead sunspot called AR2987, according to SpaceWeather.com. The sunspot explosion released loads of energy in the form of radiation, which also led to a coronal mass...
The sun is nearly a perfect sphere. Its equatorial diameter and its polar diameter differ by only 6.2 miles (10 km). The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (696,000 kilometers), which makes its diameter about 864,938...
Astronomers have previously seen giant black hole shred apart stars. However, researchers have also detected supermassive black hole generating powerful outflows that can feed the dense clouds from which stars are...
Glowing with the radiance of 10 million times that of our own Sun, Pistol Star is one of the intrinsically brightest stars in our Galaxy. It appears as the bright white dot in the centre of this image. Related articles:...
The Pleiades star cluster, or Seven Sisters, is the most well-known star cluster in the night sky. It’s what’s known as an ‘open cluster’, which is a group of stars that form from the same huge cloud of dust and gas. As...