UK: The overall winner of the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year 14 is Gerald Rhemann for Disconnection Event, a rare photograph of a piece of Comet Leonard’s gas tail being disconnected and carried away by the solar wind. The image is currently on display alongside the winners of the other categories in the accompanying exhibition […]...Read More
SHARJAH: The Emirates Astronomy Society reported the sighting of the much-anticipated Suhail star at dawn on Wednesday, marking an end to the sweltering summer heat. The sighting comes as a relief to many as the mercury hit 50 Celsius multiple times this summer. The Suhail star (or the Canopus) is the most-anticipated star in the […]...Read More
Dubai: The Suhail star is expected to be seen over the southeastern horizon in the UAE and central Arabia, starting from the dawn of August 24. During this time, temperatures begin to fall from this date, because of the Earth’s distance from the sun, after hitting highs of 50°C in some parts of the region. […]...Read More
Dubai-UAE: As we are reaching the end of June, a rare sight awaits in the pre-dawn sky: a parade of planets. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, all five planets that can be seen in the sky with just our eyes will form a planetary parade spanning across a wide swath of sky. Moon in […]...Read More
In a rare moment of history, researchers have captured an image of a black hole in the middle of our galaxy. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), with an international team working with eight synchronised radio telescopes from around the world to capture the picture. The image captured shows a glowing circle […]...Read More
DUBAI: French astronaut Thomas Pesquet took a photo of the Expo 2020 Dubai site from the International Space Station (ISS), during his 200-day mission which launched from Florida, USA. During a Q&A session which France Pavilion organised at the Expo 2020 Dubai, Pesquet responded to a number of questions from growing food in zero gravity […]...Read More
Three thousand kilograms of space junk has just crashed into the moon at frightening speeds of 9,334 kilometres per hour as per calculations. It’s is said that the crash will send moon dust and flying rock into space. Sadly, telescopes will not be able to see the new crater, so it would be months before […]...Read More
In a recent report, NASA has indicated how the future will look for ISS and how it will ultimately end up in a ‘spacecraft cemetery.’ Writing in the International Space Station Transition Report, NASA said, “The ISS is a unique laboratory that is returning enormous scientific, educational, and technological developments to benefit people on Earth […]...Read More
A meteorite from Mars that’s over 4 billion-year-old that caused chaos here on Earth decades ago actually has no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life, after all, scientists reported recently. In the year 1996, a NASA-led team reported that organic compounds in the rock appeared to have been left behind by living creatures. Other researchers […]...Read More
A massive asteroid, almost the size of the tallest building on Earth, is heading for the planet in mid-December, as per NASA’s asteroid tracker. Designated 163899 (2003 SD220), the massive asteroid has a diameter of approximately 791 meters, nearly the size of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest manmade structure on Earth. However, observations […]...Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally on the launchpad. The space observatory, safely tucked inside an Ariane 5 rocket, is expected to launch on December 25. The rollout took about two hours to complete, according to NASA. Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket, with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on board, was rolled out to the […]...Read More
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