Exoplanet Orbiting a White Dwarf Star Gives Researchers Hope That Earth Might Escape Its Eventual Death

Exoplanet Orbiting a White Dwarf Star Gives Researchers Hope That Earth Might Escape Its Eventual Death

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A planetary system anchored by a white dwarf star, located approximately 4,000 light-years away, provides astronomers with insights into what could happen to our Sun and Earth in about 8 billion years. This scenario unfolds if the Earth survives the Sun’s transformation into a red giant, expected to occur in…

X-Class Solar Flare Erupts on the Sun, Earth-Directed CME Might Have Been Released

X-Class Solar Flare Erupts on the Sun, Earth-Directed CME Might Have Been Released

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This week, solar activity has been particularly intense, with the sun releasing powerful solar flares, including an X1.3-class flare on Thursday, September 12. The eruption, coming from an unnumbered sunspot, took place at 5:43 AM EDT (9:43 UTC). X-class flares, the strongest of its type, can cause disruptions in radio…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Unveils New Insights into Solar Heating Mystery

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Unveils New Insights into Solar Heating Mystery

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has made significant strides in unravelling a long-standing puzzle about the sun. The spacecraft has delivered new insights into why the sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona, is much hotter than its surface. This enigma, known as the “coronal heating mystery,” has baffled scientists for…

ISRO’s Aditya-L1 Solar Mission Reaches Destination Within Four-Month Timeframe

ISRO’s Aditya-L1 Solar Mission Reaches Destination Within Four-Month Timeframe

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The Indian Space Research Organisation’s inaugural solar mission, Aditya-L1, has reached its destination within the anticipated four-month timeframe, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. Launched on September 2 last year, the spacecraft positioned itself at Lagrange Point 1, from where it will undertake a comprehensive study of the Sun,…

ISRO Set to Place Aditya-L1 Spacecraft in Final Destination Orbit: All You Need to Know

ISRO Set to Place Aditya-L1 Spacecraft in Final Destination Orbit: All You Need to Know

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ISRO will perform the final manoeuvre on Saturday to inject Aditya-L1 spacecraft — the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun — into its final destination orbit, some 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth. According to ISRO officials, the spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around Lagrange…

Supermassive Black Hole Spotted Eating Sun-Like Star in Nearby Galaxy

Supermassive Black Hole Spotted Eating Sun-Like Star in Nearby Galaxy

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Black holes, celestial objects known for their gluttony, usually eat stars unlucky enough to stray too close to them in one big gulp, annihilating them with their enormous gravitational pull. But some, it turns out, tend to snack rather than gorge. Researchers said they have observed a supermassive black hole…

Aditya-L1 Launch Countdown Begins: When and Where to Watch the Live Streaming of ISRO’s Maiden Solar Mission

Aditya-L1 Launch Countdown Begins: When and Where to Watch the Live Streaming of ISRO’s Maiden Solar Mission

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Aditya-L1, India’s first solar mission, is all set to be launched today (September 2) at 11.50am IST from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota. The launch for the solar mission has been announced days after the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) achieved success in safe…

Aditya-L1 Launch Countdown Begins: When and Where to Watch the Live Streaming of ISRO’s Maiden Solar Mission

After Chandrayaan-3 Success, ISRO Next Plans to Launch Aditya-L1 to Study Sun

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On the heels of the success of the Chandrayaan-3 moon landing, India’s space agency has set a date for its next mission — this time to study the sun.  The Aditya-L1, India’s first space observatory for solar research, is getting ready for launch at the country’s main spaceport in Sriharikota,…

First Ever View of the Milky Way Seen Through the Lens of Neutrino Particles

First Ever View of the Milky Way Seen Through the Lens of Neutrino Particles

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Data collected by an observatory in Antarctica has produced our first view of the Milky Way galaxy through the lens of neutrino particles. It’s the first time we have seen our galaxy “painted” with a particle, rather than in different wavelengths of light. The result, published in Science, provides researchers…